The Relationship between Delinquency and Drug UseIn my attempt to discover if delinquency and drug use‚ or the sale of drugs were correlated with one another‚ my research lead to a positive correlation‚ especially when there was gang membership involved. The theory I have chosen to tie in with my review of the articles I found is the social learning theory of Edwin Sutherland known as differential association theory. According to Britannica online‚ Sutherland ’s differential association theory of
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see what caused the people to get into the gangs and how the gangs acted to the people. The socialization theory is shown in the sense that the gang makes people believe that they are a part of a family when they join. The last concept I used was deviance because of all the violence that happened in the movie. DESCRIPTION OF THE MOVIE In Cary Fukunaga’s groundbreaking movie Sin Nombre we see a young man by the name of Willy in the Mara Salvatrucha gang. In the opening minutes of the film we see Willy
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Youth gangs in North American society are nothing new. When we turn on the news we often hear stories of misguided youth contributing to yet another gang related crime. Even though it is known that youth crimes are overrepresented in the media today‚ the subject of youth gang activity is quite a predicament to our society. Over the last few years‚ there has been a moral panic created by constant exposure to the media which portrays a great amount of youth crimes and violence. In Canada there
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get into this prison because it is more like a reward more than a punishment for them. Once sent there they can wear it as a badge of honor. Pelican Bay is a prison for only the meanest and toughest of prisoners‚ mostly gang leaders and such. These gang leaders still run the gangs while they are in prison and are fearless. They come from
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violence and gun culture including saving sue and her friend from near death as well as the Hmong saves Thao from Latino gang‚ saving Tao from the Hmong gang also his cousins and for everyone’s greater good giving up his life to save Tao and his family from anymore danger. As sue and her date are walking down the street they are confronted by bunch of street thugs(the black gang) who try to sexual abuse sue and threaten to hurt her date. Walt brings justice to this by standing up to the gangbangers
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Understanding Social Deviance Through Gang Gun Violence and Prevention of It Gang violence has been causing problems in America since at least the latter half of the 20th century. Many cities are subject to have large gangs and this by no means is a good thing. To name a few cities New York‚ Los Angeles‚ and Detroit have been known to be grounds for all different sorts of gangs. Whether it is a biker gang such as the Hells Angels‚ or an African American street gang such as the Bloods or Crips‚ all
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is due to gang leaders being moved to maximum security prisons instead of being in low security prisons. It also has to deal with the clash between street gangs and security forces. El Salvador has a population of 6.4 million people‚ from January to August there were 4‚246 homicides. Since this act of violence El Salvador has been ranked one of the most dangerous countries in the world in order for this to be stopped‚ the gang leaders should be moved back to low security prisons and gangs should be
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The factors leading to young generation into gang violence can be explained with the help of The social structure theoretic consider that the gang violence or the behavior of gang influenced from the social and economic impacts to a specific neighborhoods where the citizens are at lower class( Siegel‚ 2010). There are theories that connect the social structure theories and that explain why the people join gangs and how it goes too violence. They are Social disorganization theory‚ strain theory and
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"set"(name for the specific gang) is what drew him into the gang. Once joined‚ he vowed to stay in the "set" for life‚ and claimed that banging was his life. After many years of still believing this‚ he eventually realized that the thug life was no longer for him‚ and that gangs were a problem on society and the "Afrikan" race(page 382-383). In his book "Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member"‚ he tells of his life story and how he came and left the gang life. For thirteen years he
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transnationally active Chinese organized crime groups in the United States. It is said they only have 35 members in this gang and another 20 members in prison. This group mainly operates extortion and protection rackets in the Chinatown part of New York City. Chinese organized crime gangs are different from others because their structure is different. Chinese gangs have a relationship between street gangs and an adult organization‚ these are called tongs. The Fuk Ching organization has a relationship with the Fukien
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