II-Introduction: The topic I am interested in is to see if social inequality leads to the creation of gangs. I believe growing up in the city we experience more than those who did not. We are accustomed to seeing things other people would not be used to. One thing we are accustomed to be violence, more specifically gang violence. Gangs are that have been around for ages. Dating back to the mafia in the roaring 20s all the way to present day gangs like the Bloods and Crips. It’s hard to imagine if gangs will ever cease to exist. They are too big and too strong for all of them to disappear one day. According to the L.A.P.D. teens will join a gang for any of the following reasons; protection, Identity or Recognition, Fellowship or Brotherhood,
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If answered correctly, the question I asked will show that What is really behind the success of gangs? It’s you and I. If we do not help to stop gangs from forming, we help them succeed. Turning a blind eye or saying the police will handle it does not help the situation. The society is the reasons there is an inequality between neighborhoods. We made the created “ghettos”, we stereotyped the minorities, and we suppressed them. When the ladder is pulled so you cannot climb up you make best of what is left on the bottom. We allowed gangs to form and succeed. Gang life now has its own economic system with all the illegal activities they use to source an income. From prostitution, drug selling, robberies etc. they commit these acts out of a necessity. From our prospective gangs are evil. From their perspective, it’s the only thing viable to survive in life. With answering the question, comes knowledge, with knowledge about this we as a society will see our faults and correct them. That is why this is an important topic, up until now we have assumed that gangs form just because of the fun of it. What society does not know is that when we suppress them they are forced into a corner and need to find a way to survive whether if it is a conventional way or …show more content…
Criminal was the first category. Criminal Gangs would be created in low-class neighborhood that had a structure for adult criminal behavior. These neighborhoods have organization and stability. This would be a working class culture that would mirror how the gang would operate. Criminal gangs were organized and focused on making money not violence. As teens, they have close relationships with adult criminals that teach them along the way. If you have seen the film “The Godfather”, or “Goodfellas”, that is an example of a criminal gang. They organized structure with a ranking system so no one gets out of place. They work together with a common goal to make money and achieve the opportunity they could not get through the conventional way. Between the 19700s-2000 within the United States saw a continuing social deterioration of increasing rates of most inner city neighborhood in urban area unemployment and poverty, violence , drug trafficking and use, deteriorating housing and environmental conditions, and inadequate educational resources (Whitehead,
If answered correctly, the question I asked will show that What is really behind the success of gangs? It’s you and I. If we do not help to stop gangs from forming, we help them succeed. Turning a blind eye or saying the police will handle it does not help the situation. The society is the reasons there is an inequality between neighborhoods. We made the created “ghettos”, we stereotyped the minorities, and we suppressed them. When the ladder is pulled so you cannot climb up you make best of what is left on the bottom. We allowed gangs to form and succeed. Gang life now has its own economic system with all the illegal activities they use to source an income. From prostitution, drug selling, robberies etc. they commit these acts out of a necessity. From our prospective gangs are evil. From their perspective, it’s the only thing viable to survive in life. With answering the question, comes knowledge, with knowledge about this we as a society will see our faults and correct them. That is why this is an important topic, up until now we have assumed that gangs form just because of the fun of it. What society does not know is that when we suppress them they are forced into a corner and need to find a way to survive whether if it is a conventional way or …show more content…
Criminal was the first category. Criminal Gangs would be created in low-class neighborhood that had a structure for adult criminal behavior. These neighborhoods have organization and stability. This would be a working class culture that would mirror how the gang would operate. Criminal gangs were organized and focused on making money not violence. As teens, they have close relationships with adult criminals that teach them along the way. If you have seen the film “The Godfather”, or “Goodfellas”, that is an example of a criminal gang. They organized structure with a ranking system so no one gets out of place. They work together with a common goal to make money and achieve the opportunity they could not get through the conventional way. Between the 19700s-2000 within the United States saw a continuing social deterioration of increasing rates of most inner city neighborhood in urban area unemployment and poverty, violence , drug trafficking and use, deteriorating housing and environmental conditions, and inadequate educational resources (Whitehead,