Drugs as a Job Drugs were seen as a job. While many gang members who sell drugs, indicated that they would not give up drug selling for less pay by the hour, a number of them said they would sell drugs for lower pay, but an increase in hours. According to huff the drugs sold varied from region to region. Gang members were earning as much as $1,000 per week from 30 customers. In comparison those who were not gang member were earning $625 per week with 80 customers (Huff 1998:4)
Gang Wars Gang wars are a part of everyday life within a gang. Large gangs in the world are at war from drug trade to turf wars. James Howell affirms that Chicago’s Vice Lords and Black gangster disciples lead in the use and trafficking of drugs (2007). The wars between …show more content…
Klein hints that in order to understand violence related to drug marketing, there needs to be an understood distinction of between street level drug distribution and high level distribution networks (1995). He concluded that specialty drug gangs mad up 9% of all gangs. Howell and Decker press that what the members do with the profits of the drug sales is connected to high level distribution. Profits are split between members, and the juvenile members spend their share in typical juvenile fashions. The also concluded that profits are either kept by individuals or the money is collected for social events or important mile stone celebrations for the gang (Howell and Decker …show more content…
It is the best way to effectively display instant power and a way to settle disputes. It is the most common weapon and most important one (Stretesky and Pogrebin 1988:5). The use of guns is fairly recent norm, starting in early 1980’s (Howell and Decker 1999:6). It became clear that as the use of guns became increasingly manufactured, physical contact declined rapidly. Weapons like guns created more casualties and quicker. Earlier gangs who were not familiar with use of guns relied on homemade guns that were inaccurate with low velocity (Sanders 1994:57). Today, 90% of gang members favor lethal weapons over smaller ineffective handguns (Huff
Gang Wars Gang wars are a part of everyday life within a gang. Large gangs in the world are at war from drug trade to turf wars. James Howell affirms that Chicago’s Vice Lords and Black gangster disciples lead in the use and trafficking of drugs (2007). The wars between …show more content…
Klein hints that in order to understand violence related to drug marketing, there needs to be an understood distinction of between street level drug distribution and high level distribution networks (1995). He concluded that specialty drug gangs mad up 9% of all gangs. Howell and Decker press that what the members do with the profits of the drug sales is connected to high level distribution. Profits are split between members, and the juvenile members spend their share in typical juvenile fashions. The also concluded that profits are either kept by individuals or the money is collected for social events or important mile stone celebrations for the gang (Howell and Decker …show more content…
It is the best way to effectively display instant power and a way to settle disputes. It is the most common weapon and most important one (Stretesky and Pogrebin 1988:5). The use of guns is fairly recent norm, starting in early 1980’s (Howell and Decker 1999:6). It became clear that as the use of guns became increasingly manufactured, physical contact declined rapidly. Weapons like guns created more casualties and quicker. Earlier gangs who were not familiar with use of guns relied on homemade guns that were inaccurate with low velocity (Sanders 1994:57). Today, 90% of gang members favor lethal weapons over smaller ineffective handguns (Huff