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    Do you think of gangs when you hear the words guns‚ crimes‚ and violence? Two out every five teenagers are affiliated with gangs. I am one of the three out of five teenagers that are not involved with gangs. However‚ not everyone gets to say that they are not bullied or involved with gangs. Many students today resort to violence and associate themselves with gangs to seek vengeance. However‚ they are not aware of the dangers of vengeance‚ coercion‚ bullying‚ or gang behavior.

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    Gang Leader for a Day

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    Innovate Your Life In the book‚ Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh‚ a sociology student from the University of Chicago starts out simply trying to understand “how it feels to be poor and black‚” and ends up spending years and years figuring out the ins and outs of a gang society (Venkatesh 14). Sudhir receives the chance of a sociologist’s lifetime to see first-hand what life is like in the projects. He follows gang leader‚ J.T. around and studies his life at the Robert Taylor homes for

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    Juvenile Delinquent Gangs

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    Juvenile Delinquent Gangs As a kid I could remember walking to school every day. While on the way to school there was always a group of kids sanding outside of the school walking away. These kids dressed differently and they all whore the same type of clothes. It wasn’t until years later that I was told to stay away from them because they were gangsters. They were gangsters that caused problems to the community. These gangsters would go up to kids and try and jump them into their gang. For them the

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    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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    Gangs‚ Turfs‚ Youth & Affiliations When was the last time you were able to turn on the news and not hear about some sort of violent act? Crime and gangs is a growing concern amongst most cities‚ and street gangs are behind a lot of the trouble. Gangs have plagued the streets for centuries and there is no stopping the urge to commit such hideous crimes. Gangs grow from recruiting young kids but what makes a kid decide to join a crime filled lifestyle? Gang violence has been a problem for many

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    Gang Leader for a Day

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    In the book‚ Gang Leader for a Day‚ a rogue sociologist passionately dives into the lives of one of Chicago’s toughest housing projects in an attempt to develop an insight as to how the urban impoverished lived. Throughout the text it becomes clear that a conflict paradigm is being reflected. A conflict society is based on social inequality‚ in which some individuals benefit and thrive more than others‚ which tends to lead to conflict and thus change. This is evident both in the housing projects

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    Red Tape Gang

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    Adventures of the Red Tape Gang are a mystery book. It was write in the United States of America in 1974 by Joan Lowery Nixon‚ she was born in February 3 of 1927 in Los Angeles‚ California‚ United States she was an American journalist and author‚ specializing in historical fiction and mysteries for children and young adults. Then Joan Lowery Nixon is the only four-time winner of the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award and a two-time winner of the California Young Reader Medal. She died

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    Poem- Street Gangs

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    The poem‚ street gangs‚ emphasises to us that unpredictable nature of street gang members. The members of the gang lash out at anyone‚ even the innocent‚ if given the chance‚ evident through this poem. They use others as mere ’scape goats’ to their dysfunctional mentality and overgrown egos. The belief that they are “superior” in comparison to other individuals‚ which is their justification to their actions and why they believe they have the right to exploit others for their own gains. The moral

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    more so than going there in the first place. I was surprised when I learned that the gang is a benefit to the community. Even though the gang is also a harm to the community by conducting a drug business there‚ the gang members also are in charge of protecting the residents and keeping the place in order since the police doesn’t do anything. It seems to me that the projects would be in a worse situation if the gang wasn’t there helping out. I feel like this is a community among themselves. They seem

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    Gangs Problem in Hk

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    that juvenile girls mainly commit some crimes that is not serious‚such as wounding‚robberies‚ blackmailing unlawful assembly and different kind of thefts.There are some main activities that gangs usually do‚such as bullying others‚they will randomly find some target to bully with no reason or a minor reason.A news in last month reported that a group of 3 people in Tin Shui Wai hit a student because he look at them just a few seconds.Besides‚the will hang around in street and publie place and commit

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