Mara Salvatrucha

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…

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…

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…

As a commander of the gang unit, If I was responsible for intervening in a cycle of escalating violence among five prevalent youth gangs in my jurisdiction. What can I do to stop the escalation of inter-gang violence? First, I would set up a meeting with all the top members one on one so that I can get a feel for what type of feelings they are having among others in the community and how it is affecting them. According to pg. 153 "traditional organized crime was nationality based; today's…

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…

A Beautiful Yet Destructive Creation 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…