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    Gang Culture

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    articles were specific in trying to understand the relationship between ethnicity/race‚ violence‚ and the culture of gangs. Most of them focused on adolescence and creating a way to view how violence‚ defining of ethnicity‚ and other environmental forces cause the gang culture. In the journal Ethnic Identity and Offending Trajectories Among Mexican American Juvenile Offenders: Gang Membership and Psychological Maturity‚ George P. Knight et al. constructed a way to identify and be able to measure the

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    Prison Gangs

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    Prison Gangs and Life for Inmates Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be in prison for thee rest of your life‚ or even for a short period of time. In the surroundings of prisons there are certain things or certain activities that goes on such as prison gangs. Prison gangs are often known as an influential organization called the free world within a prison. Most of these prison gangs offer some type of safety for those you join them. In exchange for safety some inmates usually

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    Gang Involvement

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    Factors Underlying Their Gang Involvement: A Comparative Study in Three Chinese Metropolitan Cities* Ngan-pun Ngai‚ Ph.D.‚ Chau-kiu Cheung‚ Ph.D. ABSTRACT Marginal youth tend to form stronger subcultural values when they engage more frequently in gang activity‚ which also make a difference in their delinquent involvement. The subculture would in turn bolster their subsequent gang participation. Different subcultural values appear to arise differently from gang involvement in Hong Kong

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    Motorcycle Gangs

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    Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs In the late 1940s outlaw motorcycle gangs were formed. These groups made up of veterans from World War 2‚ which overtime as the numbers grew they became organized and sophisticated. In the beginning there was about 800 motorcycle gangs‚ which eventually emerged together into four powerful groups. These groups were called the Hell’s Angles‚ the Outlaws‚ the Pagans and the Bandidos. The Pagans were the only group that didn’t expand their organization over seas. Outlaw

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    instance‚ Structural Functionalism – which according to Kendall (2013)‚ is “a society composed of interrelated parts‚ each of which serves a function and ideally contributes to the overall stability of society” (pg. 21). From this theory‚ it is customary for homelessness to be part of society in order to maintain an equilibrium of poverty‚ class distinction‚ and job creations/innovations. Corresponding to this‚ Robbins‚ Chatterjee‚ & Canda (2012)‚ state that: Structural functionalism is the best suited

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    Youth Gangs

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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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    The Hawkhurst Gang

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    Smuggling and the hawkhurst gang 1. From source A we learn that: people smuggled because poor people did not want to pay and “duty tax” on their goods. Also it was believed that there was ‘nothing in the crime of smuggling’. This source is second hand information and it could be false‚ also it has apart missing which could be useful. 2. When studying this source you should be careful because‚ firstly it is from a crime and punishment book and therefore not completely about smuggling and therefore

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    The Ohio Gang

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    his cabinet included his attorney general Harry Daugherty‚ his secretary of the navy Edwin Denby‚ and his secretary of the interior Albert Fall. These three men along with Charles Forbes‚ Thomas Miller and Jess Smith were coined ‘The Ohio Gang’. ‘The Ohio Gang’ was a group of men either in Harding’s cabinet or they directly knew Harding. Although some of the members are not from Ohio‚ they were coined this name due to their relation to Harding. In fact a majority of the members were not from Ohio

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    Street Gangs

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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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    Gangs in the Prisons

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    ------------------------------------------------- Gangs in the Prison System By Jinja Jones ------------------------------------------------- Gangs in the Prison System By Jinja Jones INF 103 Computer Literacy Instructor: Lambert Fooks March 4‚ 2013 INF 103 Computer Literacy Instructor: Lambert Fooks March 4‚ 2013 Table of Contents 1. What are Gangs? When did gangs come into existence? 2. How do gangs finance/support their groups? 3. Different types of Gangs in the Prison system

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