Youth Gang Assessment Research Methodology May 15‚ 2012 Youth Gang Assessment There is no definite explanation as to what a youth gang is‚ however‚ they are alleged of as a self-formed participation of peers with the appearances of a gang name‚ identifiable symbols‚ recognizable leadership‚ topographical territory‚ regular meeting pattern‚ and collective actions to carry out illegal activity. The questions how and why youth gangs are form‚ who joins then and how violent‚ are these gangs? (Decker
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Gangs have been around since the 1900s. They haven’t decreased or increased they just steadily hold the title of the "bane of our existence." Street gangs are the primary distributors of illegal drugs.Street gang members convert powdered cocaine into crack cocaine and produce large amounts of marijuana. Located throughout the country‚ street gangs vary in size‚ composition‚ and structure. Large‚ nationally affiliated street gangs pose the greatest threat because they
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Gang Violence in Schools 2 I cannot imagine any of my children coming home from school and informing me that while at school there was a gang “beat out”. Gang violence in school is a nationwide problem and unfortunately it has become very common throughout our country. In my paper I will extensively discuss the problems with gang violence in schools along with the massive amounts of debilitating affects they can have. I will also discuss what can surely curb and resolve such problems
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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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Gang association is ancient as evolution itself. Gang violence is defined as a means on illegal actions of violence obligated by a collection of people who frequently are involved in unlawful action against the innocent. Still‚ gang association in today’s civilization have taken the world hostage due to fear and its association to criminal organizations and also the destructive implication that goes with it. The group or association typically has a name to coincide with the arrangement of leaders
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‘Greaser’ gangs and gang violence with the ‘Socs’ groups‚ in small town America‚ in the 1950’s. The novel explores the concepts of gang membership and the need for many young people to belong to gangs or groups in order for them to feel accepted in society. Through the novel‚ Hinton strongly portrays the need for the young to be part of a gang to gain acceptance‚ security and a warmth of belonging. She does this more specifically for the Greaser gang and to a lesser extent through the Socs gangs. This
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Myth: Gang rape is rare. FACT: In 43% of all reported cases‚ more than one assailant was involved. This myth I believed to be true. Not that it was rare overall‚ but that in comparison to one-on-one rapes. The fact that it occurs in almost half of all reported cases is startling. I am interested in finding out more details about this fact. Gang rape is not something that is talked about much with the exception of an occasional news report‚ but those are far and few between. Myth: Most rapes involve
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Abstract Latino Gangs and Policy Introduction Gangs have become an epic problem in the United States. It is very essential important in attempting to solve this problem by fully understanding how we can prevent individuals from joining a gang. A gang is group of three of more people that share a common bond and that are loyal to one another‚ whether it’s for economic reason or violence. The National Gang Center estimates that 32.4% of all cities in the United States experienced gang problems in 2008
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come to be the contemporary understanding and depiction of the word “gang” has a historical context set in the roots of psychology. For starters the term “gang” is where a group or collectivity of persons with a common identity who interact in cliques or sometimes as a whole group on a fairly regular basis and where their activities are similar from legitimate to criminal or even more (Sheldon 24). I point this out first because gangs socially control themselves right off the back by just having a common
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Chris “Gang Leader for a Day” This book is about a Sociologist named Sudhir Venkatesh who is a graduate student at the University of Chicago and was interested in the poor black neighborhoods that surrounded the university and he wanted to study them. He wanted to explore how the black folks lived in the projects‚ he wanted to know how life was like the challenges it took for those folks to live in there. The sacrifices it takes to move forward and how poverty affects the way of living
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