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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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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Walt changes his views and begins to respect his neighbors. 3. There are several gangs in the movie. These include Asian or Hmong‚ Mexican and Black gangs 4. Where there are gangs‚ there will also be gang violence. This is displayed though when the gang shoots up Teo’s house 5. Another example of gang violence is when the Hmong gang beats and rapes Su‚ Teo’s sister 6. The last example of gang violence is when the gang shoots and kills Walt. Walt did this to send them to jail so Teo and his Family
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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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Introduction- Talk of the growing gang problem in America Thesis: To control this issue immigration laws must be created and enforced and the glamorization of the life of a gangster in American media must be stopped. Body Pt. 1- Illegal immigration is a cause of the growth of MS-13 -due to this MS-13 has come to the U.S. seeking out power across the western hemisphere -show that small immigration reform such as simple deportation has not resulted positively -show a connection
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Mara Salvatrucha 13 Drugs and Death on the Streets of America are not a new problem due to gangs; they have existed in New York and other eastern cities for more than two hundred years. During the 1980s and early 1990s El Salvador was plagued by a Civil war between an oppressive US-funded military and an insurgent guerrilla movement. In 1988 the population of El Salvador was only 5.3 million; one in every six people left El Salvador after the war. Most of these refugees fled to the United States
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Chen March 20 2014 Gang Violence and Harsh Penalties The presence of gang violence has plagued the United States for many years. Although it is more active in some parts of the country than others‚ gang violence affects every American: either monetarily as a taxpayer or directly as a victim. Regardless‚ it is a concern of every individual; therefore‚ the criminal justice system has been addressing it for years in different ways. The approach of emphasizing harsh punishments has been implemented
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Many teenagers join gangs because they want to “earn money either to help their parents” (Hoover 20) or just to keep it for themselves. Joining a gang is easier than getting a job which is one reason why teens join gangs. Other teenagers join gangs because it runs in the family. Their family members may be in a gang which made they join a gang. This happens because they want to follow their family’s footsteps. They just think that they should be involved in what their family is involved in. They
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