Gang

Gang Activity and Drug Operations There are very many kinds of gangs that are located in rural, suburban and urban areas. They are also described as locally, nationally and transnationally occupied. These categories are based on their degree of organization, whether loosely or highly organized groups, their longevity and location (Weisel, D et el…2002). One of the gang organizations are the troublesome youth gangs that comprise of the adolescents who involve themselves in some forms of criminal…

Gangs in the United States have evolved from malignant neighborhood groups into lucrative businesses and brutal vigilantes. Harvard University Professor Roland Fryer concludes the Crack Epidemic fundamentally transformed gangs because the booming drug trade incentivized larger and more sophisticated gangs (9). Similarly, the rapidly increasing opioid market in rural and suburban America explains the development of gangs in those areas (Whalen). Unfortunately, addiction and drug sales often bring…

anger and also the formation of alternative values that endorses and normalises gang membership and violence (Pitts, 2008). Likewise, the gang can be seen as a place for gang members to express their masculinity. Although the research on gangs and masculinity is limited in…

and Jack Bynum’s Juvenile Delinquency: A Sociological Approach, “A gang is a group of recurrently associating individuals with identifiable leadership and internal organization, identifying with or claiming control over territory in a community, and engaging either individually or collectively in violent or other forms of illegal behavior” (274). Gangs have been an issue for years and depending on one’s status within society, gangs are some parent’s worst fears. No parent wants their child to…

As stated by Miller, Hess, and Orthmann (2014), The gang is, first and foremost, a community problem. It is the community’s kids who decided whether or not to form or join gangs, and it is the community’s residents, institutions, and businesses that are most victimized by gang activity. (p.384) As a result of the intense influence gangs have upon the youth a community policing program called G.R.E.A.T was created. The G.R.E.A.T program targets children in elementary and middle schools. This…

Gangs offer a twisted sense of love by telling its members that they have to take part in criminal activities and put their lives in danger for it. As gangs evolved throughout the years the level of violence and crime has increased dramatically; they have become a serious cancer in our society. It has stripped the family unit and a sense of community. No longer are young people focusing on their true value and worth but their focused on destroying one another. Gangs have become a detrimental…

Social Problems Associated with Street Gangs Gangs are getting to be pervasive in today's general public and inside of our schools. More youngsters are swinging to groups trying to get away from their regular lives and the future, which they see as horrid and somber. They are at first pulled in to the glory and income, which is glamorized by the street posse. Numerous packs are effectively included in criminal wrongdoing, for example, medication and firearm trafficking, robberies and…

comfort zone. Family or gangs can be considered to be a group of people who have an on-going relationship with each other and support one another individually or collectively. A network of people who provide an individual with practical or emotional support. Both definitions are similar in meaning but one of them are connected to a word with a negative connotation. A gang is like a support system for people looking for love, loyalty, or protection. The cause for the creation of gangs may stem…

These gangs are Hispanic based and have been linked to the Mexican Mafia with charges of racketeering, extorting money from drug sales, and conspiring to kill rivals. We know these organizations exist and operate because of the ever increasing crime rates and death tolls. These gangs operate widely in low income Latino neighborhoods, which raises the opinion that maybe if we supplied these neighborhood…

become one of the most notorious transnational gang. Is estimated that this gang operates worldwide with an estimate of 30,000 to 50,000 members (Marcovitz 30). Being a transnational gang is important to know how is structured and how members in this gang all contribute to the group. Since MS originated in Los Angeles during the Salvadorian civil war and started migrating or were being deported they began forming cliques. But besides that this gangs are organized differently globally but one…