The decisions made during ones youth is the greatest influence on the persons’ journey into becoming a man/woman. Growing up in a poverty stricken area or a troubled household normally sways young teens to retaliate in destructive ways. These distressed kids commonly develop or join violent street gangs that involve other young teens that share similar issues and interests. Prison and street gangs have damaged the face of America and embedded a sense of fear in the citizens that neighbor them. Not only does this gang violence torment our public’s image and places of incarceration, but they also destroy their own members’ present and future lives.
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Unfortunately, a majority of the gang members maintain their negative habits after they have been incarcerated. As a result, gangs or “security threat groups” have developed within the prisons. Matt DeLisi defines these violent prison groups as an “organization which operates within the prison system as a self perpetuating criminally oriented entity, consisting of a select group of inmates who have established an organized chain or command and are governed by an established code of conduct” (DeLisi 5) in his academic article “Gang Members, Career Criminals and Prison Violence”. Surprisingly, under the eyes of many officers and security guards, inmates have developed tactics to carry out their gang activity within confinement. Using secretive signs and makeshift knives and shanks, the gang-affiliated prisoners are able to conduct organized crimes without authority knowing. As a result, “prisoners involved in prison gangs or security threat groups commit significantly more acts of misconduct, including various forms of violent behavior such as murder, rape, assaulting staff or use of deadly weapons” (DeLisi 1). These alarming facts have terrified the employees of the prisons and the non-violent criminals within the prions. The prison gangs jeopardize the well being of everyone involved with the prison and have the ability …show more content…
Even if the person only had membership in the gang for a short period of time, that individual is at a “significantly higher risk of being incarcerated and receiving illegal income” (Armstrong 5). The individual could of joined the gang by mistake or out of fear, but the negative effects will carry on with him for the rest of his life. Many of these negative outcomes that come from joining a gang are blamed by the fact that gangs recruit their members at a young age. Studies by the Non-Profit Risk Management Center shows that there is an “average about 180 members” in a gang and the members are “between 10 and 22 years old” (RMC 1). Additional research by Doree shows a surprising fact that “the average age of joining a gang was just under 15 years old” (Armstrong 10). Since it is easier to control people at a younger age, gang members use this early recruitment tactic to brainwash and reduce the morals of the new member. As a result of corrupting the young individual’s mind, the violent habits and poor choices from their adolescence carries into their adulthood. This research backs up the fact that joining a gang has extreme and inevitable
A common way for gang members make a name for themselves, within their group, is by street corner …show more content…
Unfortunately, a majority of the gang members maintain their negative habits after they have been incarcerated. As a result, gangs or “security threat groups” have developed within the prisons. Matt DeLisi defines these violent prison groups as an “organization which operates within the prison system as a self perpetuating criminally oriented entity, consisting of a select group of inmates who have established an organized chain or command and are governed by an established code of conduct” (DeLisi 5) in his academic article “Gang Members, Career Criminals and Prison Violence”. Surprisingly, under the eyes of many officers and security guards, inmates have developed tactics to carry out their gang activity within confinement. Using secretive signs and makeshift knives and shanks, the gang-affiliated prisoners are able to conduct organized crimes without authority knowing. As a result, “prisoners involved in prison gangs or security threat groups commit significantly more acts of misconduct, including various forms of violent behavior such as murder, rape, assaulting staff or use of deadly weapons” (DeLisi 1). These alarming facts have terrified the employees of the prisons and the non-violent criminals within the prions. The prison gangs jeopardize the well being of everyone involved with the prison and have the ability …show more content…
Even if the person only had membership in the gang for a short period of time, that individual is at a “significantly higher risk of being incarcerated and receiving illegal income” (Armstrong 5). The individual could of joined the gang by mistake or out of fear, but the negative effects will carry on with him for the rest of his life. Many of these negative outcomes that come from joining a gang are blamed by the fact that gangs recruit their members at a young age. Studies by the Non-Profit Risk Management Center shows that there is an “average about 180 members” in a gang and the members are “between 10 and 22 years old” (RMC 1). Additional research by Doree shows a surprising fact that “the average age of joining a gang was just under 15 years old” (Armstrong 10). Since it is easier to control people at a younger age, gang members use this early recruitment tactic to brainwash and reduce the morals of the new member. As a result of corrupting the young individual’s mind, the violent habits and poor choices from their adolescence carries into their adulthood. This research backs up the fact that joining a gang has extreme and inevitable