Why do youths join Gangs? Teenagers often struggle to define themselves and their place in the world. They may choose to associate with a certain group because its members share similar beliefs‚ attitudes or interests. However‚ teens also look to others to fulfill their basic needs for such things as companionship‚ understanding and emotional support. When these needs are not met sufficiently or at all by the teens family‚ they become susceptible to joining gangs. A gang is a group of individuals
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ACADEMIC ESSAY Should Parents be blamed or Youth Violence Youth violence is one of the escalating problems facing our society nowadays (Yonus n.d). What is youth violence? Based on Natalie (2002)‚ youth violence is necessity to oversee youth violence relative incidence‚ analyses behavior over time‚ measuring the range of youth violence in different legal power. Youth violence is regarding the young person‚ for example children‚ adolescents‚ and teenagers between
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opinion on youth gangs is the same as I view planting a seed. If you plant a seed in bad soil most likely you’ll grow a defected or bad plant. I say that to say this “if a child is raised in an unstructured household most of the time that child will take his home training outside the home. Then we also have our young kids joining gangs that come from good homes‚ but can’t escape their negative environments once they walk outside their front door. Also some of the youths get involved in gangs looking
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Do Drugs Cause Youth Violence? I believe that youth violence in America is somewhat due to the use of drugs‚ but not entirely. Although drugs are known to educe violent behavior‚ I do not believe they are the routes of violence among American teens. I think that kids can be violent with the absence of drugs. While under the influence of alcohol‚ one cannot understand the difference between what is wrong and what is right. They believe they are at a much more powerful level that they actually are
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In the movie brotherly love it displayed love‚ gang violence‚ differences in social class and much more. In this film it shows how individuals from the same neighborhood do not interact well with one other. The neighborhood are split up into two parts one is called the ‘top’ and the other is the ‘bottom’. The violence started between the Neighborhood because one of Chris cousin was shot. Chris is one of the main characters in the film. Chris is one of the rich boys from the top who many people are
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Domestic Violence INTRODUCITON: GAIN AUDIENCE ATTENTION: Open with "domestic violence video" via Prezi. According to statistics found by the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence‚ Every nine seconds a woman is abused by her husband or intimate partner. At least 1 in every 4 women and 1 in every 9 men have been beaten‚ coerced into sex or otherwise abused in their lifetime. Most often the abuser is one of their own family. Domestic violence is a problem that somehow affects every
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Enforced Against Gang Crimes? Should stiffer penalties be enforced against gang crimes? Yes‚ Gangs are groups of three or more people who band together for protection and socialization gain. By joining‚ members take on the common identity of the gang. Street gangs have existed in the U.S. since the time of the American Revolution. The presence of street gangs in the U.S. has since increased exponentially‚ affecting as many as 3‚550 jurisdictions in 2007. The growing presence of street gangs in the U.S
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during the summer of 1972 by the gangs Pirus‚ Lueders Park Hustlers‚ Brims‚ Denver Lanes‚ and Bishops. They have some where between 30‚000-35‚000 members most members are African-Americans. Bloods" was a term that African-American fighting men called each other in the Vietnam War. The Pirus later changed their name to Bloods. Starting in late 1971‚ the Avalon Garden Crips‚ Inglewood Crips and various other Crip sets joined forces. They began to expand to non-Crip gang territories such as those controlled
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Gangs About seventy five percent of the United States of America’s crime rate comes from gang activity. In this project i have researched gangs and how they affect schools‚ communities and kids. I also have researched who started gangs ;why they started them and when .To find out more about gangs and the effect of them keep reading. Gangs started in the early nineteen sixties‚ at first they were not gangs though they were clubs like black panther and etc. The first real street gangs started
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GANG IS EVEVIDENT AS ONE OF THE BAD INFLUENCED ON TEENAGERS LIVES. Growing up and knowing who I am‚ my values‚ my culture and where I fit in‚ in this world and the societies that I interact with were all the things that made me who I am today. As a teenage of course its all about fun and living wild but the big question is why do young people join gangs ? As a result from gang is evident as one of the bad influenced on young peoples lives the statistics that I found online From most of the
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