Through the understanding of the ethical and religious aspects of their culture, it might be easier to deal with them.
We will also need to detect the origins and ethnicity of a gang, in order to construct our future program. Like for example, will it be Asian or Africain- Americain gang, the approach must be different.
Where the differences in ethnicities and etiology through the reading of this week we can portray the similarities in the problematics fo the gangs members, as stated by Tsunokai …show more content…
It seems like this could probably be a key to convincing them to cease their criminal and gang activities in favor of the new community program of recovering. Those reasons are numerous, like housing accommodation program: ( HERE QUOT OF VENKATESH, p 14)
Personally, I would wish to use the unlimited funds of the investor and to construct a program of a Homeboy type for the current members, in order to give them an opportunity, with a time, to gain better conditions to which they are having now as a part of the gang, but legitimately.
To conclude on this part: As said Vigil(2002) “ Vietnamese gang will not waste their time and energy on activities that do not profit them.” (P116) Similarly, i think about our gang, that we will need to provide them similar if not better than their level of life they had during their membership in the gang.
Difficulties: There may arise difficulties, such as the legitimization of gang, may not be accepted by a part of its members. As stated Alonso, “Many adolescents begin to believe that they can only gain recognition and respect by excelling at something ìcriminalî; gang activity. » So, it might be difficult to convince them