Crips

Sean Penn (Pac Man) took both functionalist and conflict perspectives. Examples from the movie to support my thinking on why Pac Man took the functionalist perspective is, because he believed that everyone needed to follow the laws and respect the police whom were a high power and with the respect of this power everything would run smoothly and the police would get the gang members and drug dealers off the streets. I do not think his approach as a functionalist perspective was effective because…

the audience follows the events that transform Monster Kody Scott into Sanyika Shakur. While writing his memoir from prison, the book starts in 1975 with his graduation from elementary school and initiation into the Crips. His initiation included a brutal beating from fellow Crips members, which immediately followed his first gang shooting against the Bloods. At the age of thirteen, Kody Scott earned the nickname “Monster” due to his violent acts committed against a victim. In 1978, Monster…

Q1: Which of the three perspectives did Pacman, Hodges, the ex-gang member turned community leader, Frog, and Rocket take relative to gang violence? Give specific examples from the movie to support the perspective that you chose. From your viewpoint, was the perspective effective in reducing gang violence? Why or why not? A1: The movie Colors is very sociological when it came to deviance and crime. It expressed the difficulties that criminals had to face when choosing to join the gang or risk…

the crips. His son wanted to become what his father was. Theirs a gang code they must follow and that is not telling or talking to cops about what happens. Meaning not giving no type of information to the law enforcement no matter what situation you in. Is very hard for officers to resolve a crime when nobody wants to talk or say what happened. A warrant was issued for Steven. The system knew that all the crimes that were happening had to come from Steven as him being the leader of the crips and…

with or claiming control over territory in a community, and engaging either individually or collectively in violent or illegal behavior (Wikipedia). Prior to watching World 's Most Dangerous Gangs, the only gangs I ever heard of were the Bloods, Crips, Yakuza, and the Russian Mafia. Gangs in general are considered a nuisance and dangerous. Hollywood depicts gangs like the Yakuza and the Russian Mafia to be brutal, organized, and sophisticated. However, they are real in how dangerous they can be…

1. There are many different reasons why individuals might join a gang. According to organized crime, we all have what is called cognitive R.A.M. or random access memory. It is the ability to process information just like a computer. Therefore, everyone is programmed differently and has different ways to process information in this world. Furthermore, how we process information is mainly determined how we were raised. Those particular individuals who are raised around gangs such as the Mafia…

due to conflicts between rivalry gangs. As mentioned in the book, the majority of the conflict is not between the Crips and the Bloods but instead between Crips and other Crips. The book offers a unique difference from most other books about gang life because the author, also known as “Monster Kody” throughout most of the text, is a notorious member of the “Eight Trays Gangster Crips” and manages to work his way through the ranks to Original Gangster. Just graduating the sixth grade, Kody has…

We wanted to protect to protect our families and friends from other violent gangs. Crips were good fighters. But other gangs started using guns. Everywhere we went, we had to duck and dodge bullets. The Crips thought the only way we could protect ourselves was to use guns too. My homeboy Raymond was killed by a gang member who was afraid of him. My closest and best homeboy Buddha was also killed…

The blacks versus the whites. It was going to be the 21st century Civil War. Supposedly, the bloods and crips were going to join together to fight all racist protestors. Riots were going to happen it was going to be crazy. There was nothing the APD could do to stop it from happening. An estimated 100,000 black protestors were already planning on attending…

Mafia, also known as cartel is an organized secret criminal organization that engages in illegal activity. In Sicily, started in the 19th century, they migrated to the United States. Mafia the most popular in the United States, Mexico, and Italy. Members of the mafia consist of people of the same race or nationality. Furthermore, a gang is a group of members who engage in groups to commit crimes. For example, gambling, drug dealing, protection, and prostitution. These crimes consist of murder,…