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gangs were started by Mexicans. Unlike New York and Chicago street gangs in this region consisted of young Mexican men, Mexican palomilla (a “male cohorting tradition” (Sage Pub)), and boy gangs that were created in the inner cities of Mexico and Los Angeles. Many children came to the United States for a short period of time then moved back home to Mexico, where they introduced the gang life to other Mexican children. According to Sage Pub those same children, later moved to America already…

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 Freedom Writers a story about the students of classroom 203 and how a new English teacher, Erin Gruwell, changed their lives writing. Many of the students in the classroom attended Woodrow Wilson High School as a result of the voluntary integration program issued by the superintendent. Most of these students had rough upbringings to say the least. They were enslaved by the gang life, crime, abusive homes, and social injustice. Until Gruwell gave these students some hope for freedom, these…

Nearly 60,000 unaccompanied migrant children were apprehended along the U.S. Mexico border between October 2013 and September 2014. Is there anything more frustrating than wanting a happy life, but knowing that it will never happen without help along the way? How does wanting to sacrifice everything you have to reach a dead end sound? These are a few minor, yet inconvenient effects Enrique experienced in wanting to attain a substantial lifestyle with his mother. While others ambitions are…

break up a fight when a man open fired upon him. Pete Cordero, 35, was shot in an apartment and was eventually found dead behind the wheel of his car. All these, and many others, are believed to be gang related, all occurring just last month in Los Angeles alone. Over 2,000 people die each year from gang related homicides and over 4 times that are affiliated with gangs. Something clearly needs to be done. The harm from gangs in America affects all people who find themselves surrounded by the…

Street gangs in America are a major nuisance to the economy and safety of citizens of the country. Gangs can illegally sell firearms and pharmaceuticals at a lower cost or higher cost for profit to anybody throughout the country wanting to buy them, immensely hurting the firearm and pharmaceutical industries and any other industries connected to them. Some gangs also commit heinous crimes ranging from burglary to murder and even human trafficking. The U.S. government has many programs and…

A. Formal Organization. (Pg. 175) Secondary groups designed to achieve explicit objectives. These gangs are very intricate but also seem very disoriented. While a majority of the gangsters are low level runners, there’s more control as you go up the ranks. Someone could be a drug runner, then get promoted to maybe making the drugs instead. This formal type of organization is which enables this gang to function. Its not as much of a formal organization but it is essentially organized crime. While…

Book Review Jumped: What Gangs Taught Me about Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemptionn by Jorja Leap is an autobiographical book about the experiences of a UCLA professor and her struggle to understand the lifestyle of gangs, and her goal to deter gang violence. Jorja Leap is an outsider looking at these communities from an intellectual point of view of a professor, but she also has her personal biases and emotions as she reacts to the violence occurring all around the communities that she…

The article “Shuttling Between Nations, Latino Gangs Confound the Law”, written by Ginger Thompson, was very informational to me. The counterculture in the article is gang members. Gang members are the counterculture because they are not the most powerful, influential, or widespread on the earth. Gang members are not respected and often times treated terrible. Gang members are not listened to and are supposed to obey the laws of the dominant culture. In some cases gang members might be the…

American History X When I started watching the movie I wasn’t sure I would like the topic and what I assumed the movie would be all about. The main character Derek I doubt could have been played by any other actor, He drew me into his character and the whole movie. Having worked in the prison system and then fifteen years in the county jail I could name at least 200 men and even women who I witnessed struggled with the gang mentality of the Arian Brotherhood. Even after their release quite…