This collection contains articles, clippings, reports, newspapers, books, journal issues, notebooks, photographs, and media belonging to John C. Quicker, professor emeritus of Sociology at California State University Dominguez Hills. A majority of this collection consists of secondary research material collected by Quicker that relates to gangs. Also included are student notebooks, course materials, and student research collections of articles from Quicker's days as a professor; as well as books and articles authored or co-authored by Quicker.

Dr. John Quicker was born in 1943 in New York to John, a police sergeant, and Helen, who worked as an information operator for a phone company. Experiences of growing up in a working class neighborhood on Long Island such as working odd jobs from the age of 8 and getting into trouble with other neighborhood kids, would inform his research as a sociologist into delinquency and gangs throughout his life.

6 boxes (four record storage boxes; two oversized boxes)

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Some material in this collection is restricted. Please see Series I, Sub-Series v; and Series II notes for more details.