Zhi Gang Sha

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…

The MS 13 gang has many rituals and symbols that are used as a communication device. As described in the film, hand signs, gestures, area codes, body language, and tattoos are all used to communicate between members. There is a complex vocabulary devised specifically to plan attacks, warn, threaten, and talk amongst the MS 13. Investigators had a huge help from Brenda Pas, a young female who was once apart of the gang, in breaking down the language. Describing the signs as complex and important…

connection to gangs problems? Salvadorans had lack of education and they were not legal residents in the USA, so they choose the easy life involving themselves in gangs as self-protection. Salvadorans began to commit crimes and the USA did not accept their behaviors, so during the 90s the USA deported a lot of salvadorans back to El Salvador and it was how gangs took root in El Salvador. El Salvador has been facing gangs problems since 1990, but what are the factors that contribute to gang…

to a group of fifteen year old Latino gang associated boys who enter a store by the name of Sam’s Liquor Store in a group of four. Although the boys are aware of the store’s strict policy of only two boys allowed in at one time, all four teenagers enter the store and try to make purchases. The reader is introduced to one of the gang members whose name is Flaco, and another one named Mike. As the store clerk yells and threatens to call the police on the gang of boys for disobeying the store’s…

With his criminal father incarcerated and his mother deceased, George Appo was left to raise himself at a very young age. George Appo, ten years old at the time, made a honest buck by shining shoes, selling news papers, and sweeping sidewalks. Living in New York City’s worst slum called “The Five Points” George learned the tricks of the trade which allowed him to make a living off of street crime. Appo started running with a group of thugs that people referred to as “street urchins”, with this…

When a person is able to provide for their family and stay out of the streets, crime tends to die down some or at least for that individual that would have been finding ways to support his or her family by any means necessary and in this case through gangs, committing crimes, hustling or whatever…

associate themselves with, usually have a delinquent background. This is a concern amongst researchers, in the 1990s there was a surge arrest of girls, and this arrest made it recognized that girls are also involved in gangs, and delinquent acts. Although females are involving themselves in gang membership there is link to sexual and physical abuse experiences. Researchers identify how this victimization relates to delinquency and how there may be a prevention for this not to happen again.…

Gang crime today is no longer just an inner city problem. Gangs are often associated with inner cities where it had its early origins. However, they have now spread like the plague seeping its way into some areas of the U.S where gangs and the crimes associated with them were once unheard of. With now gangs being a nationwide problem it is important for law enforcement nationwide understand how gangs operate, their gang members, and the roots behind this phenomenon. By better understanding gangs…

is his father, also seems to be aware and share his wife’s sentiments. He had once been a gang member, and he would not want his son to go down that path that guarantees crime, violence, and sometimes murder. However, this theme is most superbly brought out through Dough. Unlike his brother who wants to college, get a job, and take care of his girlfriend and their baby, Ricky heads down the road of crime, gangs, guns, drugs, and violence. He is in and out of prison every…