The Peacemaker was born among the Huron people and came to Ganienkehaka where the Mohawk people resided. Throughout The Peacemaker’s life he made many efforts to change men who were dedicated to fighting and revenge and persuade them to live a more peaceful life. The Peacemaker said that humans truly desired people to live in peace and safety among one another. The Peacemaker said the purpose of a political organization must be to oppose violence among people. In order for this to be a reality is ending war and violence for settling disputes.…
Chief Brown has assigned the task of establishing a Gang Response Unit. This team will include patrol officers, sergeants, and a lieutenant to handle gang suppression, apprehension, prevention and intervention within the City of Memphis. The personnel will be officers from the Memphis Police Department who are recommended by station commanders. The chief has already suggested a lieutenant. He will be the supervisor of the entire team.…
In the article Policing in Honduras: Understanding Gang Proliferation it talks about how Honduras has a high homicide rate due to its organized gangs. (Ratcliff, 2015)Honduras has the unfortunate title and nickname “murder capital of the world” and for good reason. (Ratcliff, 2015)Honduras homicide rate in 2011 was 86 per 100,000 and has approximately 36,000 active gang members.(Ratcliff, 2015) The gang members are made up of 98 percent of 12 to 25 year of age. (Ratcliff, 2015)The nation’s communities are intimidated and controlled by the gangs through extortion, torture and violence.…
Gangs in North Carolina Prisons, and How Gangs Communicate with the Outside World Gangs are undoubtedly one of the largest problems that the Department of Corrections faces daily. According to David Starbek prison gang is defined as: “an inmate organization that operates within a prison system, that has a corporate entity, exists into perpetuity, and whose membership is restrictive, mutually exclusive, and often requires a lifetime commitment”(Starbek). A person who was in a gang before coming to prison is generally able to find comfort with that gang while in prison, however a person who was not must earn the respect of that gang after they arrive. Prison gangs are considered to be security threat groups or STG’s and when dangerous or leaders of a gang are detained they are placed in the security housing unit or SHU, where they are on lockdown twenty-three and a half hours a day.…
Violence is a serious problem of the contemporary society. Every year so called gang wars take away lives of thousands of people. Unfortunately, innocent people often become victims in these wars. Despite the fact that the government puts much effort trying to solve the problem of the high-crime level and the criminal war, the number of victims is still high. Dan Gardner in his article The Missing Piece to the Gang-Violence Debate states that drugs play an important role in the gang wars…
A serious problem that is going on in the United States is criminal street gangs. The Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) defined gangs as “an association of three or more individuals, who members identify themselves by adopting a group identity with a purpose to engage in criminal activity by using force and/or intimidation and such crime are used to enhance or preserve the association’s power, reputation or economic resources” (National Gang Center, National Youth Gang Survey Analysis). The term “gang” is not a new concept as historians have traced this term back to the mid-1700s. However, gang violence has changed and evolved since the first recorded gang activity. Gang…
It is not only social factors or political factors that lead gang violence. Personal factors play an important part in gangs choosing violence and it is the most frequent cause of violence by gang members. Especially when it comes to seek revenge for perceived slights or previous disputes gangs use their utmost power and resources (Buchanan, 2014). A member can be attacked for belonging to a rival gang, living in the same neighborhood of a different gang, or to settle an old score between gang members or their families. Sometimes revenge leads to a series of crimes.…
The most recent estimate of more than 30,000 gangs represents a 15 percent increase from 2006 and is the highest annual estimate since 1996. Gang violence in America has been a major problem in this country which affects several communities and several major cities all throughout America. If gang violence awareness can be more available to areas where it is most popular and holding seminars and informational classes about what the gang life can cause, then there will be a decrease in gang related activity. In America, there has been a rapid increase in gang violence and gang related activity which affects the countries major cities. While larger cities and suburban counties expectedly report higher numbers of gangs, there is also considerable variation within each area type.…
Gang violence is a good top to research, the rise of gang violence in the prison system has cause great concern for DOC and inmates incarcerated. The research you would probably be able to find the most information on is prison recidivism. Researching to determine what is the possible cause of inmates reoffending could be due to the lack of programs provided to inmates to help with their transition into society. The correctional system has to make adjustment to help inmates from reoffending. Recidivism is a problem that can be researched and a lot of information is available for a researcher.…
If things were not worse already individuals residing in gang affiliated neighborhoods are being labeled and punished for actions that have not even occurred yet. Police claims this as prevention and in Legitimated Suppression: Inner-City Mexican Americans and the Police, Robert J. Duran states, “The majority of gang members across the United States have been racially and ethnically labeled by police officers as Latino (47 percent) or African-American (31 percent), and they have been mostly poor (85 percent)” (Duran p.193). My problem with this quote is that the data gathered from police officers, is that it seems to be over-exaggerated because not every person of color is gang affiliated.…
There are many problems happening in the African American Community. There are many issues like gang violence, police brutality, poverty and many more. All those things we can stop but we continue to still let our actions cause them. Those are just a small amount of the issues African Americans are facing these days.…
` People deny racism even exists in the United States, but one does not have to look far to see blatant signs of racism, you just have to look to our prison system. The high rate of incarceration in the African American community is due to the institutional racism that still exists to this day, through the use of drugs, gangs and police discrimination the United States has created an environment for constant racial discrimination. The drug business in the United States is the biggest contributor to incarcerations among black males. According to the NAACP “about 14 million whites and 2.6 million blacks report to using illicit drugs” that’s…
Introduction Gangs are a major concern in many cities and in the criminal justice field. Although some can be very dangerous, it is often a means of survival for many juveniles. What is a gang? The growth has been known to cause crime, violence and drug problems in places highly populated with gang members.…
Force is Chicago's Answer to Gun and Gang Violence In very recent history the media has covered multiple gun massacres in the U.S.A. many such as the one in Newtown, Connecticut in this 26 people were killed, a lot of them being young children. There was another infamous shooting being the tragic event of the Columbine High School massacre. These unfortunate and evil events have opened the closed eyes of Americans to the issue of gun violence. Due to these events repetitive arguments and activists overdue for retirement continue to enter the discussion on how to successfully stop such barbaric displays of human aggression.…
Essy Lamb Intro to Sociology Dr. Castro “Gang Leader for a Day” Course Paper Education and poverty are inversely correlated. If a person has more education they are less likely to be in below the poverty line. This also goes the other way, meaning that a person with little to no education has a very high risk of being bellow the poverty line. Venkatesh has several conversations with different people about education verses poverty. In one conversation, he is talking to Mrs. Bailey.…