Gang Violence Essay

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…

a. Crime/ pg. 195: The violation of norms written into law. I feel that crime is the main definition represented in The World’s Most Dangerous Gang. The gang MS-13 or Mara Salvatrucha was started in the 1980’s. It today is the most dangerous gang in the world. It is an international crime gang that started in Los Angeles, but has gone as far as Mexico and Central America. Their criminal activity consists of but not restricted to is drug trafficking, illegal immigration, money laundering,…

In Gran Torino, there are many occasions that the Hmong community experience in the Michigan. Gang activity and violence is one the major conflicts that the Hmong community experience. The Hmong gang harasses and promotes violence and theft towards the community. The Hmong also experience an absence of masculine figures. The absence of masculine figures contributes to the Hmong community being helpless and juvenile. Walt Kowalski becomes the outlet masculine figure of the Hmong Lor family. The…

Violence, gangs, and cults have always been a problem in society. There are various reasons why people join gangs. However, sometimes in order to turn a life around after being stuck in a gang, inspiration needs to come from somewhere else to inspire a person for a better life. Gangs give children and adults alike a sense of family or home. They feel like they belong to something bigger than themselves, thus, giving them a reason to live. In the novel The Cross and the Switchblade, author…

The gang violence is mostly related to the lack of opportunities , discrimination and exclusion from the society of certain individuals . Many people argued that one factor why people are most likely to join gangs than others is their economic status which it is influence by their race and ethnicity . In the book Always running : La vida loca : Gangs in LA we can go through the emotions , reason and the consequences of a guy named Luis that was once part of a gang in Los Angeles . Just like…

describes these factors as the ‘ingredients’ that create a ‘violence stew’ (p. 173). These ‘ingredients’ each add to violence and put its residents in a more vulnerable position. Most of these ingredients are caused by a strong drug gangs, indifferent government with unaccountable police, and vulnerable poor population. Each these alone would not necessarily increase the violence seen in Rio today, but when combined together create this ‘violence…

Imagine yourself as a youth living in a neighborhood contested by two rival street gangs. Would you join one of the gangs? Why or why not? • Personally, I could never imagine myself being a part of a gang. However, if I grew up in a different area where gangs heavily influence the area, then maybe I would be dragged into one. Although, personally I do not stand for anything that gangs do. I do not support violence. However, I do see the importance of having strong social connections and being…

Gang Culture and Family Intervention: African American Youth and the Trauma of Criminalized Urban Settings This cultural study will define the problem of criminal urban settings in the formation of trauma for American youth related with gang activities. The primary risk of African American trauma for teenagers exposes the individual to violence, murder, and incarceration due to peer pressure to join gangs. African-American youth are a high-risk population by being exposed to murder, violence,…

youth and is nothing short when referring to gang violence in the United States. Although rating crime consistency in relation to social class is controversial. Crime rates are often gathered through crime statistics which are lacking in classifying people appropriately. Statistics can also be less reliable if police are more likely to arrest suspects considered to be lower-class than the middle-class. Nevertheless, it was once believed that youth gang affiliation we something that only…

males to register for the military draft. AIDS is announced as a new plague, and finally street gangs begin growing rapidly and terrorizing the streets of America. Not just any street gang had as much notoriety as the Crips. The Crips, a gang of young men that specialized in a wide array of crimes. They would steal everything, terrorize neighborhoods and kill for nothing. Typical demographics of gang members in the ‘80s was male, between the ages 12-25, and of a minority group, In this…