projects of LA‚ just what life looks like from an insider’s perspective. Many people don’t understand gangs and what it is that started the huge uprising of them. Growing up in the projects and being turned away from many youth groups took a large psychological toll on many of the kids growing up in LA in the 60’s. Instead of Boy Scouts‚ and other youth groups‚ the youth turned to making groups that eventually resulted in gangs. Not only were they turned away from youth groups but also unfairly treated
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6.) Alternative sentencing (Instead of sending juveniles to industrial schools). Example‚ probation which would include the completion of a community service order‚ or drug program. Many juvenile offenders can be effectively rehabilitated through community- based supervision and intervention. There is need for alternatives to detention; research on traditional confinement in large training schools or correctional facilities has found relatively high recidivism rates (Austin‚ Johnson and Weitzer
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elements of gang life. Include but limited to have low self-esteem‚ socially inept‚ and have sociopathic characteristics. Research also tells us that joining a gang is a life time commitment. However‚ from the research we have today that is now a lie to a certain extent. While there are some who do commit their whole life to gang activities. Studies from 3 longitudinal studies shows us that one-half to two-thirds are members of the gang for 1 year or less. On the other hand we have peer groups
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of gangs. 88 percent of young women in the study were in groups of mixed-gender and only three girls associated themselves with all girl gangs. All these girls had a strong belief that males and females were considered equal in their gangs. Once again this was bizarre to me because‚ I had no prior knowledge about gangs but assumed that there was no gender equality in gangs and that the males were still considered the strongest and the higher ups. While doing the interviewing a lot of the gang members
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Gangs of New York: Who’s A True American? “You can hire half the poor to kill the other half.” Boss Tweed spoke these words in reference to the Draft Riots. It shows that you can easily turn the poor against each other‚ if you bring money into the situation. Gangs of New York is about the separation of the Irish and the Natives‚ which eventually led into larger conflicts. In this film there are two important characters‚ Amsterdam Vallon and Boyle McGloin‚ who were both Irishmen in the Five Points
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instinctively‚ allowing them to pass. Jen hung back‚ keeping close to the buildings. Daniel and Joseph Avery were dangerous; catch their eye‚ come into their orbit‚ and you would become their victim. They stalked the streets like warlords‚ their dogs always by their side‚ their gang of sycophants never far away. The rest of the gang had split up and were begging for money or cigarettes. Alone‚ they were invisible or abused; together‚ with the dogs as their messengers and the Brothers as their
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Sometimes I believe that we as people‚ specifically college students‚ forget how lucky we actually are. My eyes were opened up to this upon reading Sudhir Venkatesh’s remarkable story entitled Gang Leader for a Day. Through this novel‚ which I really enjoyed‚ I found myself going through an array of emotions. If I could pick one word to best describe the novel it would be a rollercoaster. At points I would laugh hysterically‚ while at other times I felt sorry for people‚ constantly my feelings
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When I was growing up we had little cliques in the neighborhood but nothing that we really considered a gang. There were no initiation rights or anything crazy that needed to be done in order to join except living in the same area. We also didn’t engage in violent activities‚ maybe some juvenile mischief but nothing criminal like selling crack or stealing cars. Part of this may be because I was a girl then and the activities we took part in were nothing like what the boys did. As a young teen some
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are getting out of hand these days‚ or heading down the wrong path? There are many different types of alternative punishment; the amount of juvenile crime would dramatically drop if any of these were more greatly enforced. The most effective way to help these teenagers and to get them started down the correct path is enforcing alternative punishment upon them. This form of punishment is sometimes also known as juvenile justice‚ restorative justice‚ and community justice (Karp‚ 2004). One of the most
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The Involvement of Youths in Gangs Rica Philline E. Verceles Catanduanes State University Abstract The study describes the involvement of youths towards gangs. The research identifies the reasons why youths join in gangs‚ the benefits or advantages in joining gangs‚ disadvantages and crimes involving gangs‚ and preventing youths in joining gangs. Data were collected using a library research. Findings indicate that youths have varying reasons why they join in gangs. These reasons include: a sense
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