Topic: Youth Gangs Narrow Topic: The Prevention of Gangs in Los Angeles Thesis Statement: The Mass Media Influences on Youth Joing Gangs I.Introduction A.Is our youth and teens being influenced by the mass media to join gangs? B.Is the media becoming more violent? C.What options do youth and teens have to prevent joing gangs? II. Body A. Behavior 1.The mass media portrays gang member behavior. 2. Language and dress code are taught to kids at a young age. B. Effects 1. Execution of gang members
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Youth gangs in Canada is becoming more and more of issue. Adolescents across Canada resort to joining youth gangs for many different reasons. A youth gang is a group of young adolescents who use intimidation and violence to gain prestige among other gangs and control certain areas of unlawful activities. For all the reasons an adolescent would join a youth gang‚ police and the Government have come up with programs to prevent youth from joining and to get them to leave the gangs. With programs involving
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Youth & Gang Violence Jacqueline Smith Jackson State University Youth & Gang Violence Definition of Problem As an African American‚I often wondered why people were in gangs and what made them want to involve themselves in violent activity. I grew up in a predomintely all black neighborhood and many of the kids I grew up with were in some type of gang affiliation Desciples‚ Vice Lord and Latin Kings. Gangs and violence is still happening every day which hit the headline news with young
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Subcultures try to compensate for the failure of the larger culture to provide adequate status‚ acceptance and identity. In the youth subculture‚ Subcultures try to compensate for the failure of the larger culture to provide adequate status‚ acceptance and identity. In the youth subculture‚ youth find their age-related needs metyouth find their age-related needs metPunks Subcultures try to compensate for the failure of the larger culture to provide adequate status‚ acceptance and identity. In the
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Many aspects of living are changing and conforming to the things the youth of today are doing and revolutionizing our culture. (Bennet‚ 2007) states “Youth is so undefinable because of how rapidly it is changing. As soon as a definition of youth comes out‚ it is already contradicted by the new youth that is replacing the old”. We all see it adults everywhere panic about how fast things are changing compared to years ago when they were growing up they are afraid they will never be able to keep up
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This definition shares some homogeneous attributes with the definition of the Euro gang Network with its reference to durability‚ territorial space or geographical orientation and more significantly a unique youth group identity that fixates on violent and illegal activities. On the other hand‚ albeit any group of young people can be defined as a gang‚ it is their criminal and violent activities that engender fear and as a result‚ it is perceived as problematic in society (HM Government‚ 2010). Equally
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Alex Trujillo Professor Foth English 1A.4 October 3rd 2011 The Experiment In our society we are prone to obey to our authority in order to follow through our obedience because of the rolls we take. In both Stanley Milgram and Phillip Zimbardo’s experiment‚ “The Perils of Obedience” and “The Stanford Prison Experiment”‚ many people have a brighter understanding about how human behavior can be cause by authorities. They had different structures of
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Factors Similar for Gang-Involved‚ Pressured-to-Join‚ and Non-Gang-Involved Youth? A Social-Ecological Analysis” written by Gabriel J. Merrin‚ Jun Sung Hong‚ and Dorothy L. Espelage. I found that the article was a very great source of enlightenment of the world of the gang involvement. I am going to share with everyone the things in the article that got my attention. I found that it was strange that males are more than likely to become involved in gangs more so than females. Youth boys and girls are
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Describe how you would handle any of the teenage status offense violators who is being uncooperative at the scene. How would this affect your decision on how to handle this status offense case? If you have one or more uncooperative parent who refuses to come to the scene and pick up their child would this affect your decision on how you handle the case‚ and if so what would you then do with the child? Why are young people‚ under the age of 15‚ outside after 9pm? Young people are being hurt and
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The beginnings of subculture theory involved various theorists associated with what became known as the Chicago School. Subcultural theory emerged from the work of the Chicago School on gangs and developed through the symbolic interactionism school into a set of theories arguing that certain groups or subcultures in society have values and attitudes that are conducive to crime and violence. The work associated with Birmingham University’s Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) was most responsible
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