Gangs in Australia

to lose Jim – his only true friend, and father figure -, Plato goes out to find him, taking his gun along, much to the horror of his maid. Meanwhile, Jim’s parents call the police, as they now realize the seriousness of Jim’s situation when Buzz’s gang hangs a live chicken outside their front door. In the final segment, the three protagonists meet up in the deserted mansion and, after playing around a bit, assume the role of a family. Jim and Judy pretend to be the parents, which symbolizes…

Youth gangs is an interesting topic to be explored, particularly the influence on why youth feel compelled to join gangs. To provide a generalized concept of how youth gangs in this essay, it will be used in broad terms of persons aged twenty-five and younger and group engaged in unlawful behavior (Esbensen, Ni He, and Taylor 2001:106). Based on peer-reviewed research youth join gangs because of parental, school and peer influences. A prominent force that invites youth to join gangs is parental…

Gang violence in America is a huge problem but Canada’s gang population has become a strong issue with the tremendous amount of groups they have reached. A youth gang is an association including various amounts of people who are a part of criminal activity and who have created a group identity. These groups usually are formed in places that have people facing disadvantages and inequality within their community. Gangs deal with a high usage of drugs, weapons and violence. Youth gangs have…

theory that he calls a “phantom community.” This community is essentially the voices one hears in their mind and thoughts. It can be the voices of things one has heard significant others (anyone who is emotionally close, such as family members, friends, gang members, school mates, etc.) say. It never leaves someone; it’s the presence of everyone one has known. He says it’s a hidden course of emotion (pg 83,) including hate, anger, fear and love (some of the basic emotions every human is born…

environmental factors. Gangs have been around for a while and have been an issue due to their involvement within society. This involvement is usually bad in a sense that the members are participating in delinquent behavior and they create problems in communities and in schools by interacting in this delinquent behavior. Members of a society usually can point out members of a gang or identify what a gang is, but do they actually know what gangs are and why people commit crimes once they join a…

unit’s operations greatly. As SAGE officers heavily patrolled “the bottoms” they would look for evidence against the gang members, such as loitering, which would make them in violation of a civil court injunction. Therefore, the deputy district attorney could then request a restraining order for the police department and the police department would then be able to take these gang members into custody, instead of waiting for criminal activity to occur. The second part of this collaboration is…

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…

possible news headline on the night of the murder, Ponyboy and Johnny abandon the safety of their homes to take refuge in an abandoned church, hoping to escape a potential prison sentence, or, in Pony’s case, separation from his brothers. Ponyboy’s gang relations and criminal activities threaten to cut the tether which connects Pony to his only remaining family, Soda and Darry. Although some may argue that Ponyboy would be in better hands within the system of shelters such as orphanages…

Not all street gangs are made for wrong doing. Many people might think down on the creation of gangs but it is a part of survival in their region. Street gangs, which pull peers into gangs for protection and social status, assemble to protect their neighborhood, family and friends from other street gangs thus causing rising crime rate and innocent people dying because of this. First off, there are a few definitions for gangs because authorities had a hard time explaining what a gang even is.…

the society.. This portrays that teenagers want acceptance from their groups, therefore they will obey them. A quotation to emphasise my point is: “I mean he is laughing as well, see how far he’ll go...”,this suggests that he was laughing with the gang so that people thought that he was fine with everything and he was hiding all of his pain with laughter, so…