Essay On Why Teens Should Join Gangs

Do you know what is your teenage son or daughter do now? Teens should be going to school, watching movies, playing sports, enjoying and having fun with their youth. Regrettably, this is not the situation for more than 850,000 teens participate in gangs and 30,700 gangs exist in the US... Mostly males ages generally between 12 and 24 years old and only 10% of gang members are girls. (OJJDP, 2014). Because they did not have enough guidance from parents and advices from schools as well. So that let teens join gangs and have bad influences, which make them involved in criminal activity and be more dangerous. Do you know What is Gang? " “Gang is a formal or informal ongoing organization, association, or group that has as one of its primary activities the commission of criminal or delinquent acts, and that consists of three or more persons who have a …show more content…
The education community and schools of California should offer more awareness programs for teenagers, that teens getting more interested to stay and more enjoyable instead of being in the street hazarding their lives and has a chance to participate with gangs members. For example, schools or community education can offer a special guest to talk with teens and answer their questions about joining in gangs. Also, the special guest can talk about the bad influences of gangs and how they attract and pull teens who are highly has sensitive situation such as economic reasons. For example, there is a program in State of Illinois called VEGA (Violence Education & Gang Awareness), which leading youth and teens to have a better perception of the consequences that they be faced with when they are participating gangs and joining in their activities. In addition, School staff have to create a systemic program to minimize and reduce to keep students away of participation in