Cargan. 17th July‚ 2013. Report on the apparent growth of gangs and organized crime in the country of Cargan outlining the strategy to be implemented by the Gang Task Force to reduce the negative impact of gangs and organized crime. Objectives * Formulate Gang Reduction Strategy to lessen the impact of gangs and organized crime. * Community mobilization and integration of community resources * Sustainable and effective gang enforcement Research Method – exploratory Data Collection
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Frederic Thrasher: Gang and Gang Typologies Frederic Thrasher was a sociologist at the University of Chicago. He was a colleague of Robert E. Park and was one of the most prominent members of the Chicago School of Sociology in the 1920s. He took a PhD in Chicago on gangs. The Gang‚ a study of 1313 gangs in Chicago‚ was published in 1927. It said that “neighborhoods in transition are breeding grounds for gangs.” (Thrasher‚ 1927) His work on gangs was a series of outstanding doctoral studies completed
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Gang Leader For A Day Social imagination‚ “individual problems are to social problems‚ what is happening outside of one’s personal control. This relationship between individual experiences and public issues is the sociological imagination” (Our Social World Pg9). The book that we read “Gang Leader for a Day” by Sudhir Vankatesh clearly illustrates the sociological imagination. In the early part of the book we see Vankatesh trying to give surveys to a gang to try to understand how they feel about
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The Bloods and the Crips The United States has had problems with gangs dated back as early as the 1800s. In today’s society when people hear about gangs the first two gangs that they think of are the Bloods and the Crips. Both of these gangs originated about forty years ago but are still going strong today. Although‚ at first these gangs were formed as a sort of territorial war the activities of the gang members has grown increasingly more dangerous. The Bloods and the Crips are mortal enemies
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Norte‚’ the United States. The film revolves around two main characters‚ MS 13 gang member‚ Willy (aka El Casper)‚ and Sayra‚ a Honduran girl who is traveling to New Jersey with her brother and uncle. The story of Willy is his struggle to deal with gang-life while he tries to maintain a relationship outside the gang‚ while in the process of initiating a young boy‚ El Smiley‚ into the gang. Willy’s girlfriend attends a gang meeting unbeknown to him‚ and ends up being killed by the gang’s leader Lil’
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one’s identity. Often feelings of being an outsider act as a catalyst for gang related violence and crime‚ especially in the Indo-Canadian community. However‚ there is not enough documented evidence explaining why violence is so prominent amongst Indo-Canadian youth. Although there is not enough evidence accumulated by researchers on this topic‚ based on research that I have gathered about other minorities involved in gang related violence‚ I will show that there is a tendency for Indo-Canadians
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Sidewalks and Gangs Even though being too friendly isn’t always good‚ because fear is within the community with the gangs and turf wars because of people being territorial‚ and walking on side walks. Unfamiliar people in new places can cause neighbors to become suspicious and worried that someone new is coming into their community. In The Uses of Sidewalks by Jane Jacobs‚ argues “a gang appropriates as its territory certain streets or housing projects or parkers‚ often a combination of the three
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Most people would automatically say urban communities because they are the most commonly known neighborhood to commit violent crimes. “Black on black crime” exemplifies any other type of gang violence today. Crime itself is classified to be an illegal act that harms the public welfare or morals. I am interested in gang violence because I have had family members and friends die because of it‚ so I can relate on a more personal level. This is becoming a rising issue in urban communities whether we fail
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Abstract In Santa Cruz County in the city of Watsonville the gang recruitment has increase by double. More and more young Latino kids are getting recruited to be the gangs. The two gangs that has established in Watsonville is Sureños to the south and Norteños to the north. Watsonville is a small-town with population of 51‚199 according to the 2010 census. The violence and crimes has increase through the past years. The Santa Cruz Probation has been trying to reduce the juvenile crime in Watsonville
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area in which a person lives and raises their families‚ may have a significant amount to do with the circumstances in which their kids get involved with gang affiliation‚ drugs and committing violent acts. To begin‚ there are numerous places where which gangs or gang affiliation is present‚ yet there are certain areas in which gangs are more apparent. For example‚ according to an article from SF gate‚ “A 15-year-old boy has been charged with murder in the slaying of another teenager near
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