Becoming A Nice Kid Essay

Hypothetically, one could find a “nice kid’ being recruited and pressured into joining a gang and find that kid kills someone they didn’t know and not turning in their gang leader even if caught. Gang joining by a youth has numerous push or pull in factors that work to give that kid a distinctiveness that does not exist in his everyday life. Numerous factors, varying from a common theme of desire of power, respect, money, and protection, are at stake for this type of kid. These factors are very influential in the luring process of winning and dining a ‘nice kid’ that give social perception and cognition to him or herself as it relates to acceptance and being cared for and respected by a gang. And largely this contributes to the reasons why things can take a destructive and downward direction for such a child leading to a bonding to this gang family. The family connection happens for such a child which leads to un waving loyalty, thereby, bringing’ freedom’ as well as structure in the gang life. …show more content…
The level of these factors would be working in an altruistic behavior directed toward a kid but in a negative way. Without sound, grounded family support which would provide the nurturing of protection and respect, this kid is ripe for a self-fulfilling prophecy of what can go wrong in children’s lives. While becoming a self actualized developing individual, a child can be easily converted to fall or be misdirected when that child does not have love and, respect and care in their lives. The lack of stability issue and such factors act as external attributes that exert a strong influence on the kid pushing them toward a gang that could offer those factors even with fringe benefits of freedom to be able to not follow the rules of