Gangs are very problematic in every society. Gangs are a group of people who believe in the same cause. However‚ every gang has their own different cause. For example‚ majority of gangs wants to make money while others a based upon race. In order for gangs to make money they have to use intimidation‚ violence‚ extortion‚ kidnapping‚ sell drugs and many more illegal activities. Every gang wants to make money. However‚ in order to make money you have to own a territory‚ where you can do these illegal
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Social Theories: How It Relates to Gangs & Gang Violence By Stuart Brown Criminology is a complex subject chock-full of theories that attempt to explain crime and criminal behavior. Each base theory has several branches of theory which expand upon and compliment their predecessors. Even some of the sub-theories have branches of theories. This paper is going to discuss two social theories; social structure and social process. It is also going to cover some of the branches
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More and more teens join gangs to feel that sense of family that might be absent in their life. Most teens tend to lack the attention that they feel that is needed and deserve but don’t always get from the preserved family environment that is seen regularly on television. Therefore causes the teen to feel like the parent is not being given the love and attention that is shown on the television. As these feelings keep getting increasingly worse the teen starts to indulge‚ get involved with illegal
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OTTEN TERM PAPER: WHY DO FEMALES JOIN GANGS (US) INTRODUCTION There is no apparent definition for the word “gang” but according to the oxford dictionary the term “gang” is referred to as ‘a group of youngsters or adolescents who associate closely‚ often exclusively‚ for certain social reasons‚ especially such groups engage themselves in delinquent or felonious behaviors’. Most at times when we think of gang members we think boys. Right? Do we ever think
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Gangs in America 06-06-09 Gangs in America It is estimated that there are roughly 24‚000 gangs in America today. There are 750‚000 stated gang members. Gangs are taking over our youth and our county. In 1996 50% of all gang members were juveniles. Twelve years later that percentage has not changed. Gang violence is on the rise and it has to stop. We have to take back our streets and our children. The history of gangs goes back to biblical times. Gangs have always caused social issue
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Gang Violence in the U.S. What are the most popular reasons for a gang violence? I really dislike the thought of fighting and being cruel to another person‚ it makes me wonder why there’s so much violence by gangs and sometimes within the same gang. To stop worldwide gang violence we should understand why it gets started in the first place. Gang violence doesn’t just affect the actual gangs‚ it affects their family members and the people and places around them‚ if we understand it first‚ we can come
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Ethnic & Racist Gangs in American Society Gangs in America are incredibly widespread and continue to grow in size. Gangs are also known as Security Threat Groups (STG’s) in the correctional world. Both the outside world and prisons are affected by gangs daily. The threat of prison gangs seems to keep growing and shows no signs of coming to a halt. There are multiple types of gangs which include White‚ Black‚ Asian‚ and Hispanic. Many things can be done to stop Security Threat Groups and their
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Intersectionality: Gender‚ Race‚ and Gangs Introduction In much of social science research‚ gender‚ race‚ class‚ and other dimensions of identity are treated as discrete variables‚ to be studied and measured separately. In recent years‚ however‚ feminist sociological theorists have argued that race‚ gender‚ class‚ and other axes of identity must be treated as overlapping and intersecting forms of oppression. Kimberlé Crenshaw‚ (1989) was among the first to articulate this theory‚ and coined
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Gangs in Prison CJ130: Introduction to Corrections Kaplan University 06/16/13 Gangs in Prison Gangs have always been problematic in prisons and in my opinion‚ will continue to be. Gang activity filters down from generation to generation and there is not a real easy or even possible way of stopping it. They are their own families in some cases; they have become a family to those who do not otherwise have a family. Those members will not betray their gang brothers or sisters. There are some
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trends change the meaning of these words. Words such as “gang” and “club” have evolved‚ and since evolving one has arose as a positive word and the other a negative. These changes in connotations develop when an event becomes significant enough to be a part of the media and become ingrained in history. Then from then on these words cannot ever go back to meaning anything different because of a popular following and spreading. Both “gang” and “club’ are defined as an association or organization
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