Prison gang

Throughout California, the activities of gang members have been raising the crime rate each year. According to Edge ethics of Department, they have collected data base and claim there are about 175,000 to 200,000 gang members here in California. Gang members who start at an early age meaning they just been recruited and do not know the consequence, start to lose interest in the lifestyle as they hit their early thirties. As they get older, gang members start to calm down as they know the outcome…

Originating in Los Angeles, California, America's most dangerous gang is thus far is Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13). What started out as a small, tight-knit group of friends going to rock concerts, turned into an army of terrifying, rigid gang members. Now with over 100,000 active members across the world, the gang has made a reputation as the most dangerous gang. MS-13, in a nutshell, is a profit making mafia. What brings in the big bucks for them primarily is large-scale drug trafficking. From…

youth today engage in drug use due to peer pressure, curiosity or a way to deal with problems in their lives. As stated in the justice.org achieves: the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the U.S are gangs; street gangs, outlawed motorcycle gangs and prison gangs. The increasing numbers of gangs activity posses a dramatic increase in the availability of drugs to the public. The governments solutions to theses problems, listed on drug policy.org, are the fifty-one billion dollars spent on…

Four Corners is a narrative South African film centred around the gang culture in South Africa, with specific relevance to Cape Town. Through the implementation of cinematic elements, the film offers a realistic perspective of the impact of gangesterism on communities and families within the city. By analysing the context that the film is set in, and critically evaluating these cinematic elements, a greater understanding can be gained of what the impact of gangsterism in South Africa is. Set…

get tattoos to remember fallen friends or their loved ones when away (pg. 46). Prison tattoos are another type of tattoo that Sawyer talks about in her book. Prison tattooing is the practice of creating and displaying tattoos in a prison environment (pg. 47). Since tattooing in prison is illegal in the United States, the inmates do not have the proper equipment necessary for the practice. The law against tattooing in prison forces inmates to find ways to create their own tattooing devices out of…

` People deny racism even exists in the United States, but one does not have to look far to see blatant signs of racism, you just have to look to our prison system. The high rate of incarceration in the African American community is due to the institutional racism that still exists to this day, through the use of drugs, gangs and police discrimination the United States has created an environment for constant racial discrimination. The drug business in the United States is the biggest…

increasing gang activity within the Canadian community (cite). Specifically, in Western urban centers within the prairies, there has been a notable increase in Aboriginal youth gang activity (cite). Currently, 96% of Saskatchewan’s gang related activity involves individuals of Aboriginal decent (cite). The CIA reports that the increase of youth gang activity developed in 2005 during the Aboriginal prison riots. After the Canadian government experienced riots, there was a division of gang members…

of a gang or seeing gang activity in their schools (The National Association of Social Workers, 2011). This statistic alone is an alarming number. Almost half of the students nationwide are witnessing or participating in gangs before or at the age of 18. Now while this is a scary realization it shouldn’t be surprising. Kids who grow up in low income neighborhoods and are surrounded by gang activity have a tendency to lean towards that lifestyle. They would rather wrap themselves up in gang life…

and peers and charities. It has been said that social identity can have an effect on the behaviour of a group (Crisp and Turner, 2010). The term street gang is best described as a number of people who form a group, who all have common ground or interests, with some of those common interests being criminal activity for money, drugs or status. A gang made up of males or females is then what differentiates the two, with many stereotypes associated with both of them. Different aspects…

In A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men, written by John Hagedorn, the audience sees the connection Hagedorn’s makes between politics, socioeconomic status, racism, and it’s unwavering resistance to change. Street gangs are complex and cannot be reduced to simplistic pathologies, especially with the lack of research and unexplored history by scholars. The book focuses on the more social-cultural psychological concepts, stating straight off the bat that street gangs are not apart of “a subset of…