Memphis is known on a global scale for being the home of Elvis Presley and the blues you can hear played in clubs along Beale Street. However, Memphis also has one of the highest poverty rates in the country, with 29.8 percent of the city’s population living in poverty (Charlier, 2015). Memphis based gangs such as Young Mob and Kingsgate Mob along with nationally known gangs like Crips, Bloods, and Latin Kings are just a sampling of the gangs you can find within the city (Goggans, 2014). The majority of gang related activity happens within the city limits in predominately black and poor communities, but you can see the gang presence in any area of the city (Googans, 2014).…
7.1- Rank the following acts on whether you believe they are a crime or not. Rank from most serious to least serious using the following scale: very serious (VS), serious(S), undecided(U), less serious (LS), and not serious (NS). Also not if you think an act should not be a crime (NAC). Give reasons for your decisions. l.Pat gets drunk and hits a child, injuring her severely, while speeding through a school zone.…
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.…
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.…
As a commander of the gang unit, If I was responsible for intervening in a cycle of escalating violence among five prevalent youth gangs in my jurisdiction. What can I do to stop the escalation of inter-gang violence? First, I would set up a meeting with all the top members one on one so that I can get a feel for what type of feelings they are having among others in the community and how it is affecting them. According to pg. 153 "traditional organized crime was nationality based; today's organized crime is overwhelmingly racially based, but with occasional nationalistic overlay"(Hoover, 2014).…
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.…
Curbing Gang Violence The first portion of the assignment must address your personal observations of the issue with examples. Discuss the topic in reference to how society and the church each address the issue and how each provides or does not provide support. Your observations of society and the church must be very detailed. Gang violence is one of the issues the current society is facing.…
Biker gangs though we associate them with crime the real Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs are ones that are not sanctioned by the American Motorcyclist Association. Most of these clubs consist of like minded motorcyclist Enthusiasts that get together and ride their Harleys. These “gangs” per-se began forming after WWII by veterans who wanted to again feel the camaraderie that they did in the service. Not until 1947 did a small percent of motorcycle gangs become violent. In Hollister, California the Pissed off Bastards and the Boozefighters brawled in the street this forced the AMA to issue a public statement that 99% of bikers where law abiding citizens.…
Violence has become one of the most occurring social problems that Americans face in society. It is a frightening topic within itself, and there is always talk about ending or lessening it, but somehow it never seems to stop. Violence is one of the significant contributors to deaths that occur in the United States each year. Robert Kennedy once asked, "What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created?".…
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.…
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.…
Gangs have consistently remained a concern to the general public. They have consistently poised a threat to themselves, other gangs and the public at large. However, it is not until gangs take the lives of innocent civilians or high profile individuals when they become relevant in the media. Recently in Toronto, near campus, a prominent lawyer, Randall Barrs, was shot in daytime while working on a major marijuana case. The news reported that the suspect was involved in a gang whose members were represented by Mr. Barrs.…
In the past, gangs have been viewed as a group of adolescents who have been excluded from a certain groups of individuals due to their behavior, actions or beliefs. As shown before, gangs tend to being an outlet for a family. However, there is a unnumbered account of different attractions that play a role in influencing someone to join a gang, besides providing a family. Jeff Slowikowski a Acting Administrator for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, wrote an article strictly focusing on community outreach, and government policies which lists out key features or attractions gangs pose on certain individuals. As gangs are establish, Slowikowski and researchers have observed that “the gang-joining process is similar to the manner in which most people would go about joining an organization.…
Social media can cause violence among people, which can affect the neighborhood in which they live in. Specifically, social media has opened the door for cyber banging. Both NPR (National Public Radio) and the co-director of Metro Chicago YMCA’s Youth Safety and Violence Prevention program, Eddie Bocanegra, report the evidence of how social media influences gang violence. As a result, this has caused the Chicago police, Professor Desmond Patton, and Professor Henry Liebermann to come up with solutions to reduce the amount of gang violence in neighborhoods. To begin, NPR interviews Jaime on how social media influences gang violence.…
It was not easy to grow up and survive in a dangerous neighborhood. My mother was always working and my brother was always on the streets looking for an adrenaline rush. As a child, the feeling of shadows following me at night was difficult to live with. In spite of my feeling of loneliness, I made up my mind to not become part of a street gang. There were days when I would doubt my decision because I would see how the rest of my friends always had money and never struggled financially.…