Lauren Wagner Current Issues April 1‚ 2013 Gang Hierarchy Wiz Khalifa once said‚ “The things we crave the most are the things that destroy us the quickest.” After hearing this quote‚ I began to mull it over and twist it into different meanings; it could be about drugs or alcohol obviously‚ but it could also mean actual needs like social acceptance. In light of our juvenile justice class I was able to connect this idea with gangs and gang membership; juveniles that are entering prison for the
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articles were specific in trying to understand the relationship between ethnicity/race‚ violence‚ and the culture of gangs. Most of them focused on adolescence and creating a way to view how violence‚ defining of ethnicity‚ and other environmental forces cause the gang culture. In the journal Ethnic Identity and Offending Trajectories Among Mexican American Juvenile Offenders: Gang Membership and Psychological Maturity‚ George P. Knight et al. constructed a way to identify and be able to measure the
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GANGS IN TORONTO Mr. De Sanctis CLU 3M November 11‚ 2013 There are a variety of gangs in the city of Toronto including the bloods (whose color is red)‚ crips (whose color is blue)‚ Punjabi mafia‚ ms-13‚ etc. These gangs can be usually found where the government provides public housing to the community. Places like Rexdale‚ Jane and Finch‚ Scarborough‚ Malvern‚ Region Park are the hosts to many of Toronto deadliest gangs‚ coincidentally these areas are the areas where most of the immigrants
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Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs In the late 1940s outlaw motorcycle gangs were formed. These groups made up of veterans from World War 2‚ which overtime as the numbers grew they became organized and sophisticated. In the beginning there was about 800 motorcycle gangs‚ which eventually emerged together into four powerful groups. These groups were called the Hell’s Angles‚ the Outlaws‚ the Pagans and the Bandidos. The Pagans were the only group that didn’t expand their organization over seas. Outlaw
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Youth gangs : Self identify as a group: they do this by creating a name‚ initiation rituals‚ tattoos‚ gang signs Are recognized by society as a gang- people acknowledge the existence of the gang whether it be law enforcement or the community Participate in illegal activity- this could include things such as prostitution‚ drug dealing‚ stealing‚ murder A Select Territory Have a collective goal- often times the goal is financial gain or intimidation At risk youth in latin America The youth that are
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Violence of Gangs Gangs have been around for a long time‚ but recently they have become worse. Unfortunately‚ there are many different types of gangs. For example; there are street gangs‚ prison gangs‚ motorcycle gangs‚ and neighborhood gangs. According to Federal Bureau of Investigation‚ there are more than 33‚000 gangs in the United States ("National Gang"). Gangs cause a lot of the violence in America. In Illinois alone there are six or more gang members per 1‚000 people ("National Gang"). Not only
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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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his cabinet included his attorney general Harry Daugherty‚ his secretary of the navy Edwin Denby‚ and his secretary of the interior Albert Fall. These three men along with Charles Forbes‚ Thomas Miller and Jess Smith were coined ‘The Ohio Gang’. ‘The Ohio Gang’ was a group of men either in Harding’s cabinet or they directly knew Harding. Although some of the members are not from Ohio‚ they were coined this name due to their relation to Harding. In fact a majority of the members were not from Ohio
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The Gangs All Here A gang is defined in the dictionary as a group of youngsters or adolescents who associate closely‚ often exclusively‚ for social reasons‚ especially such a group engaging in delinquent behavior. According to the 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation‚ there are over “1.4 million active street‚ prison‚ and OMG (Outlaw Motorcycle Gang) members comprising more than 33‚000 gangs in the United States” ("Fbi.gov"). These gangs
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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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