Mara Region

direction. Many have made the trip before and know first hand how brutal it can be. Honduras has the world’s highest murder rate, El Salvador the fourth, Guatemala the fifth. Much of the violence within the countries are perpetrated by gangs, the Mara 18 and Mara Salvatrucha, the most vicious gangs in the Americas. Gangs are forcibly recruiting young men to join or someone in their family gets…

Vance Byrde, 18, was shot and killed outside his home with a group of people when a man approached him and fired multiple rounds. Davon Williams, 24, was shot and killed while trying to 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…

The aim of this paper is to explore the nature, patterns and causes of youth gang violence. Every part of the paper provides an overview of definitions of youth gangs, and of gang-related behaviour, and preliminary observations regarding the importance of gang membership. Introduction: Youth gangs control crime on the streets. They deal in drugs, prostitution, and are concerned in other illegal activities. Gang members lead very terribly dangerous lives. They carry weapons, steal cars and other…

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…

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…

First of all, if such a case will happen to me I will try to be as more possible polite, but will not I do not let them think like this. I will remind them that through gangs are currently modified from the old times, severals researchers believe that European gangs are claimed to be the initiators of this type of movement, there are some evidence that roots of the Americain gangs are very old as well: “ The earliest record of gangs ' appearance in the United States may have been as early as…

the security housing unit or SHU, where they are on lockdown twenty-three and a half hours a day. In theory this would prevent that dangerous person from communicating out orders to commit heinous crimes, but that is not always the case. MS-13 or Mara Salvatrucha is a Latino gang that is considered to be the largest and most dangerous gang in the world. The 2009 National Gang Threat Assessment estimated “MS-13 to have between 30,000 to 50,000 members worldwide, with 8,000 to 10,000 in the…

INTRODUCTION Gang membership is often associated with negative consequences from use of illicit substances (Battin-Pearson et al. 1999; Eitle, Gunkel, and Gundy 2004; Hennigan et al. 2014), antisocial behaviour (Esbensen and Melde 2011; Hennigan et al. 2014), stressful life events (Eitle et al 2004; Hennigan et al 2014), and violent criminal activity (Battin-Pearson et al. 1999; Deschenes and Esbenson 1998; Eitle et al. 2004; Esbensen and Melde 2011; Hennigan et al. 2014). This literature will…

a. Crime/ pg. 195: The violation of norms written into law. I feel that crime is the main definition represented in The World’s Most Dangerous Gang. The gang MS-13 or Mara Salvatrucha was started in the 1980’s. It today is the most dangerous gang in the world. It is an international crime gang that started in Los Angeles, but has gone as far as Mexico and Central America. Their criminal activity consists of but not restricted to is drug trafficking, illegal immigration, money laundering,…

survive, and reproduce. Other countries will still exploit Dharavi. Dharavi is filled with skilled workers that are poor, desperate for work, and can provide cheap labor. They only have each other to look out for their best interest. Even then, it is still survival of the fittest. Background assumption is a deeply embedded, common understanding of how the world operates and of how people ought to act. Dharavi is a mega slum. Before I watched this video I did not understand fully the concept of a…