could have meetings with his people. Muhammad eventually taught Kody how to educate himself in order to enhance his life. Kody eventually started to grasp Muhammad's teachings about things such as struggling and oppression. Muhammad eventually changed the life of Kody dramatically, and led him away from gang life. Before Kody completely withdrew from his "set," he joined the Consolidated Crip Organization (CCO) in order to try to better the Crip nation. This organization attempts to stop the Crips from fighting each other and unite them for the purpose of destroying the Bloods. Kody was released from his murder term after serving four and a half years out of the original seven-year term that he was supposed to serve. He slowly withdrew from gang activity and settled down with his wife Tamu and his two children. "He became a Nationalist, member of the New African Independence Movement, and Crusader against the causes of gansterism."
             The Containment Theory, by Walter Reckless, can be used to explain and understand the behavior of Monster Kody Scott as a member of a delinquent gang. In 1961 Walter Reckless composed the Containment Theory, which explains delinquency as the interplay between two forms of control known as inner and outer containments. This theory also explains how people can be protected from crime. Inner and outer containments help to shield against one's potential deviation from legal and social norms and work to insulate a youth from pressures, pulls, and pushes of deviant influences. Reckless wanted his theory to explain not only delinquency, but also conformity. "Inner containment represents the ability of a person to resist temptations to deviate and to maintain normative loyalty." (Bynum 192) The stronger one's inner containments, the least likely they would be to commit crime. The weaker one&ap
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