The typical gang member is male, but there are also many female gang members. In the late 90’s when the government issued …show more content…
Some intriguing information about these studies, identify the clear problems in the neighborhoods with these high rates of gang violence. These young people don’t have any jobs, activities, or business for that matter, besides doing what they know. In a city like Chicago, many of the gang members there are from very poor, underdeveloped areas and not given much chances to be great. It's interesting to know that the poor African American and Hispanic communities have the highest volumes of poverty and unemployment. These people live in homes they do not own, so they can not contribute to making their schools and communities better. It’s clear, that to fill these private prison, the government targets communities like so. Gangs as youth groups develop among the socially marginal adolescents for whom school and family do not work. In contrast, gangs are like fraternities and sororities, well this was the intentions of Freddy Gauge & Walter Wheat the creators of Four Corner Hustlers. The notion of creating a family in the streets, to give back to the communities, it wasn’t until they became blacklisted by the federal government where they were considered an organized gang affiliate(s). What many African Americans considered to be stronger leaders, were either stripped of their freedoms and imprisoned or are dead. The …show more content…
If parents do not start monitoring and guiding these young children, the state of the black man or Hispanic may become extinct. Some research shows that delinquency starts at home, if not fixed at home it boils over into the community and becomes influential for the next delinquent. The disadvantages that are placed on the lower social class, affects the social and economic conditions causing a social disorganization. In addition to the compressions of fringe economics, these gang members experience the added load of having marginal ethnics and personal identities. They look for their identities and some stability in the gang and adopt the culture and customs that are associated with