Gangs A gang is a group of recurrently associating individuals or close friends with identifiable leadership and internal organization‚ identifying with or claiming control over territory in a community‚ and engaging either individually or collectively in violent or other forms of illegal behavior. When a new member joins the gang he or she must go through an initiation‚ the most common initiation is “jumping in” or getting beaten by all the gang members and/or committing acts of theft or violence
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------------------------------------------------- Gangs in the Prison System By Jinja Jones ------------------------------------------------- Gangs in the Prison System By Jinja Jones INF 103 Computer Literacy Instructor: Lambert Fooks March 4‚ 2013 INF 103 Computer Literacy Instructor: Lambert Fooks March 4‚ 2013 Table of Contents 1. What are Gangs? When did gangs come into existence? 2. How do gangs finance/support their groups? 3. Different types of Gangs in the Prison system
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Role Strain on Nurses Years of research on fatigue and role strain on nurses have made little progress on reducing the stresses of nurses at work. While ANA (2001) from the code of ethics charge nurses to provide a safe and competent patient care‚ nurses‚ as studied‚ are the sickest people in the world. Research have asserted that the unhealthy working environment impacts the nurses’ health‚ their quality of work life‚ and the health outcomes of the patients. In the study of Horrigan et al. (2013)
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argue that gang activity and youth involvement has grown exponentially through the years‚ it has been an ongoing epidemic for decades. Methods‚ levels of violence‚ rules‚ and motivations may have changed over the years‚ but the basic infrastructure has remained the same. The earliest accounts of youth involvement in gangs first appeared in Europe or Mexico‚ while the earliest record of youth gangs appearing in the United States are recorded as early as 1783. In the early 1800’s youth gangs appeared
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Bring the right scantron form! -If you are going to be late or miss a quiz‚ let me know please via email ASAP Grades -Quiz Gangs can be the surrogate family for younger kids - Seattle Study=Risk Factors Introduction to Gangs -We will focus on street gangs behaviors -OUR WORKING DEFINITION No standard definition for gangs that is used to define a gang nationally Themes of our Quarter -Tree or more definitions -Association (group Identifier) with each other -Involved in criminal
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Dangerous Gang: MS 13 Imagine a scared little boy wanting to be accepted by a gang. Scared to death‚ he walks up to a group of other boys from a rival gang‚ closes his eyes‚ and starts to shoot. When he opens his eyes he realizes that one of the rival gang members has been hit. Then imagine having to walk away‚ not run‚ because in this gang a member does not run away. All of this is just to be accepted into a very violent‚ dangerous gang. The Mara Salvatrucha gang‚ normally referred
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Prison Gangs Michael Dooley Aiken Tech CRJ 242.013 Prison Gangs Prison gangs are flourishing across the country. Organized‚ stealthy and deadly‚ they are reaching out from their cells to organize and control crime in America’s streets. Law enforcement personal began to systematically monitor gang activities in the 1970’s. Working together‚ their initial attempts were to identify only gangs which had some semblance of formal structure‚ a constitution‚ bylaws‚ mission statement‚ or some identifiable
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Abstract Youth gangs pose a considerable problem to contemporary society; a notion which is substantiated by the government who have invested £4m from 2011-2013 in an attempt to tackle the issue. Research into why young people engage and desist from gang activity has been sparse‚ suggesting that further research into the topic is necessary in order to prevent and deter young people from engaging in gang activity. The main aim of this research is to examine the central research question: „Why do young
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behavior considered gang behavior? When does hanging out with your friends and bending the rules turn into
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In America‚ the rise in violent crimes over the years can be attributed to Juvenile Gangs. In a March‚ 1996 study‚ DR .James Alan Fox‚ Dean of the College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University reported that from 1985 to 1994‚ the rate of murder committed by teens‚ ages 14-17 increased 172 percent. So why do teenagers join gangs and become involved in risky behavior that can ultimately lead to incarceration‚ great bodily harm‚ or even death? What can they possibly gain from such a risky endeavor
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