Controlling Organized Crime CJA/393 Criminal Organizations June 1‚ 2010 Controlling Organized Crime In this paper‚ I will identify the problems presented and the various relationships established by organized crime. I will also describe the legal limitations associated with combating organized crime‚ and include a critique of major federal laws and strategies that support this effort. Lastly‚ I will suggest a solution to control organized crime by discussing and evaluating the effectiveness
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Today I’m going to be speaking to you about the street gang known as the Bloods. I will be discussing the origin of the gang‚ some of the gang’s important members and the impact the gang has on the present day. It all began in 1971 when the gang that eventually came to establish the Bloods was created. The name of this gang was the Piru Street Boys and they were actually a set of the Crip gang‚ today’s biggest rivals of the Bloods. When the Piru Street Boys began their operations they were working
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Classification of Gangs Introduction The problem of classifying gangs has interested both sociologists and law enforcement. For the purpose of law enforcement‚ a gang is generally defined as an organized group among the members of which there is well-designed communication. This paper evaluates classification schemes from current research for gangs. The objective is to discover the issues and problems in creating classifications for gangs including a definition which delineates what constitutes a gang and differentiates
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argue that gang activity and youth involvement has grown exponentially through the years‚ it has been an ongoing epidemic for decades. Methods‚ levels of violence‚ rules‚ and motivations may have changed over the years‚ but the basic infrastructure has remained the same. The earliest accounts of youth involvement in gangs first appeared in Europe or Mexico‚ while the earliest record of youth gangs appearing in the United States are recorded as early as 1783. In the early 1800’s youth gangs appeared
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Gangs A gang is a group of recurrently associating individuals or close friends with identifiable leadership and internal organization‚ identifying with or claiming control over territory in a community‚ and engaging either individually or collectively in violent or other forms of illegal behavior. When a new member joins the gang he or she must go through an initiation‚ the most common initiation is “jumping in” or getting beaten by all the gang members and/or committing acts of theft or violence
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Controlling Organized Crime CJA-384 Controlling Organized Crime Organized crime continually has caused numerous law enforcement agencies throughout the world to reevaluate criminal apprehension tactics. Organized criminal activities have plagued almost every country within the world‚ caused thousands of deaths‚ and generated billions of dollars from illegal activities. The immense problems presented‚ various relationships established‚ and the legal limitations
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Gangs in prison developed for a various reasons including for solidarity‚ power‚ and self-defense. They were all established by inmates with a complex and highly organized structure. These organizations inmates related with each other according to gang affiliation instead of as an individual. Prisoners were therefore absorbed in the prisons gang structure. There large numbers and solidarity made it difficult for staff to manage and control the inmates. Prison control weakened and
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Youth gangs : Self identify as a group: they do this by creating a name‚ initiation rituals‚ tattoos‚ gang signs Are recognized by society as a gang- people acknowledge the existence of the gang whether it be law enforcement or the community Participate in illegal activity- this could include things such as prostitution‚ drug dealing‚ stealing‚ murder A Select Territory Have a collective goal- often times the goal is financial gain or intimidation At risk youth in latin America The youth that are
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Current Issues April 1‚ 2013 Gang Hierarchy Wiz Khalifa once said‚ “The things we crave the most are the things that destroy us the quickest.” After hearing this quote‚ I began to mull it over and twist it into different meanings; it could be about drugs or alcohol obviously‚ but it could also mean actual needs like social acceptance. In light of our juvenile justice class I was able to connect this idea with gangs and gang membership; juveniles that are entering prison for the first time‚ growing
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often used to describe the conditions for the growth of gangs. the concept of gangs is that gangs form out of unsupervised peer groups‚ which are unsupervised because the formal institutions of society such as schools‚ church and families break down. the new urban institutions are not yet strong enough to replace them‚ especially for the acculturating children. Chicago schools have gangs as temporary product of the second generation. Back then gangs followed a certain code and they were also filled with
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