According to William Thompson’s and Jack Bynum’s Juvenile Delinquency: A Sociological Approach, “A gang is a group of recurrently associating individuals with identifiable leadership and internal organization, identifying with or claiming control over territory in a community, and engaging either individually or collectively in violent or other forms of illegal behavior” (274). Gangs have been an issue for years and depending on one’s status within society, gangs are some parent’s worst fears. No parent wants their child to grow up being a criminal especially those parents who risked everything coming into a new country to start a better life; a life away from crime. These parents move away from everything they know in order to provide their
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The results showed that gang recruitment starts during the middle school years or around junior year of high school. Which resulted in these juveniles running away from home, breaking curfew, skipping school, getting suspended or simply dropping out by 11th grade. Those who did drop out and joined gangs who “engaged primarily in violent attacks (including some cases of stabbing and subsequent injuries), burglary, vandalism, alcohol, and ‘soft’ drug use” (394, Sela-Shayovitz, Gangs and the Web). There were other studies that showed that gangs “are often viewed as a large city phenomenon. These studies also saw that majority of gangs in the Southwest are Hispanics; the “Chicano barrio to support the view that it is more gang- or violence-prone than other cultural communities”. (159, Winfree, Social Learning). Which concluded that they would join a gang when their school no longer meet their social, emotional and/or educational needs. However, none of these studies provided a solution to juvenile gangs. None offer a solution to stopping or at least reducing gang violence. Researchers are able to say the reason gangs are formed, where they tend to from, the reason these members join and stay within the gang; yet there doesn’t seem to be a solution
The results showed that gang recruitment starts during the middle school years or around junior year of high school. Which resulted in these juveniles running away from home, breaking curfew, skipping school, getting suspended or simply dropping out by 11th grade. Those who did drop out and joined gangs who “engaged primarily in violent attacks (including some cases of stabbing and subsequent injuries), burglary, vandalism, alcohol, and ‘soft’ drug use” (394, Sela-Shayovitz, Gangs and the Web). There were other studies that showed that gangs “are often viewed as a large city phenomenon. These studies also saw that majority of gangs in the Southwest are Hispanics; the “Chicano barrio to support the view that it is more gang- or violence-prone than other cultural communities”. (159, Winfree, Social Learning). Which concluded that they would join a gang when their school no longer meet their social, emotional and/or educational needs. However, none of these studies provided a solution to juvenile gangs. None offer a solution to stopping or at least reducing gang violence. Researchers are able to say the reason gangs are formed, where they tend to from, the reason these members join and stay within the gang; yet there doesn’t seem to be a solution