James-Younger Gang

but that isn’t enough of a barrier to protect the Tri-Cities from gang activity. Just like any living creature, gang members can move about too. Additionally, this leads to the reality that gang members are on the loose, just like stray dogs. “[Known about there are] 20 gangs in Benton county, and 20 in Franklin County. Yakima has 40 gangs itself. It is also estimated that about a third of inmates in the Bent County Jail are gang members. That’s compared to more than half of the inmates in…

also to establish their reputation as a gang to be feared. Many youths look at drinking, vandalism, and drug use as a form of having fun. Their idea of amusement is partying, getting high, bullying and robbing people. Drive- bye shooting is the most numerous violent crime committed by gangs. Members will hunt for homes, vehicles, of hang- outs of rival gangs and well drive by and shoot at the members of the rival gang. Homicides among Latino gangs are frequently near- ritual exhibitions…

He was the middle of 3 sons and grew up in a middle class neighborhood in town outside Seattle called SeaTac. He was a dutiful son and close to his mother. His father was a bus driver who often complained about prostitutes on his route. Gary was a chronic bed wetter into his late teens and has said he remembers his mother would often bathe him when she found out. He said she would also humiliate him in front of family and friends. He had expressed strong sexual fantasies about his mother along…

“I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid” (John Gotti-The Dapper Don). John Gotti, one of the most famous mobsters in history, committed many crimes through his life. He started stealing, fighting and drinking in his early life and was also arrested at least nine times before his twenty-first birthday. This made him very appealing to the Gambino family; however Gotti wanted to be on top. He would soon make it there and remove anybody in his way. John Gotti used…

In the last few decades, globalization has opened avenues for trade, created new markets, and increased the porousness of borders; however, a feeling of national susceptibility stems from this relaxing of borders and fuels a securitization of movement along the U.S.-Mexico border. Migration along the southern U.S. border has become a security threat, one which the U.S. government exercises extraordinary means to combat. Under this framing, migrants are criminalized and the lines between…

The act of illegally trafficking drugs has been a substantial and recurring issue prevalent in history since the early 19th century, involving the first illegal drug trade of the moving and distributing of opium by the Chinese [Ellen N. La Motte, July 2015]. Drug trafficking is the dealing and exchange of illicit drugs that are then transported for payment [UNODC, July 2015]. The “illegal drug trade” defines the global black market of the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of drugs…

but money is always an issue. Many students coming out of universities owe thousands of dollars. Terry had a risky life because of his gang relations. The new generation feels like people take little ricks and that life was too precious to throw it away. Schooling was not of an issue for Terry because of how adaptive he was earning money through means of his past gang. It seems like living in that past was quite outgoing in means of choosing what path to earn a living. On the other hand, I feel…

Gang violence in America has been a problem for over eight decades. Since as early as the 1900s people of the African American race organized small gangs in the streets to protect their neighborhoods when segregation in America was still a big social and ethical problem. Originally gangs where not organized to be violent and to commit crimes. These smalls crews where founded and established to provide peace and protection to the African American community during the civil rights movement. Even…

premiered, an image for the 1950s was created (Kleiser, 1978). Young girls spent days trying to learn how to dress just like Sandy, and even made their own little gang of Pink Ladies with their friends. Even before the premiere of that movie in 1978, in 1967 the novel The Outsiders was written by S.E. Hinton. The story told of a gang of Greasers in rural Tulsa, Oklahoma, just trying to make their way in society. Greasers are what made the culture, the time, the people, so fascinating for the…

participate in drug and alcohol use, and involved in gang activity. With this being the issue, it can be said that the individuals Tre and his friends come in contact with are involved in these activities because it is their idea of…