Gang Violence Research Paper

Introduction This paper will go over the nature and scope of juvenile antisocial behavior as it relates to organized gangs. It will describe three of the most common forms of antisocial behaviors in organized gangs. It will also cover and describe three types of proactive solutions to the gang violence. Juveniles that are involved in gangs normally have some contributing factors that pushed them towards wanting to hang out or join a gang. The factors have to do with children that have a parent that is dependent on drugs or is abusive physically or mentally, peers or even if their school life is bad. Many children that are going through this type of situation will drop out of school then have a hard time gaining a good job because of education. This most of the time …show more content…
These type of juveniles will join gangs because of the attractiveness of what the gang brings to their status in school or society. Gangs are looked at by juveniles as families that will help support, protect and even nurture them during their adolescents. Most of the time these type of juveniles will be missing this from the home life they are in now. Females that join a gang even have a high risk of being sexually used by its male members but, the females will go through this just to have what they are missing from home. The gangs will recruit the juveniles by making them feel cool within their community and they will also use physical and psychological intimidation. Having gangs that indorse antisocial behavior will have an negative type of impact within a community and threaten peoples safety and their quality of life within that community. Most communities that have gangs will come up with community programs to put into place. The OJJDP (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention) came out with five