street code
Hood loyalty principles
Street code is an informal set of rules governing behavior in urban neighborhoods, particularly in areas with high crime or gang activity.
It emphasizes self-reliance, loyalty, and handling disputes without involving police: Snitching violates street code.
The code often demands respect be defended physically and debts be settled personally.
Those who live by it may describe themselves as about that life.
- unwrittenNot set down formally
- honorHigh regard, moral dignity
- loyaltyFaithful commitment to another
- ride or dieUnfailingly loyal person
- silenceTotal lack of sound
no snitching · snitching · respect · keep it real · hustle · turf · gang · reputation · omerta · rules · survival · trust · betrayal · corners · hood · solidarity · retaliation · protection
- social codessocial norms, social norm, unwritten rule, unspoken rule, unspoken rules
- UnderworldHades, Tartarus, netherworld, Sheol, Styx
- postal codespostcode, zip, ZIP+4, postal zone
street codestatutory law
Legislature-made legal rules
criminal code · civil law · rule of law · constitutional law · legal code
street codebourgeois values
Middle-class social standards
social conformity · civic virtue · polite society · proper etiquette
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