An Analysis Of Gang Violence

In todays United States we have a huge problem affecting society, gangs and the violence that follows them wherever they go. These days’ gangs aren’t just compiled of grown adults, they often lure in young teens to do dirty work and to add numbers to their turf. Despite laws aimed straight at these gangs they still defy the law and wreak havoc upon the territory that they claim. The members in the gang have a gang first mentality and will do everything possible to provide for and protect their fellow members. They will very rarely snitch on their own to help put a stop to some of the meaningless crimes committed by these savages.

In Policing Gangs in America, Charles Katz and Vincent Webb describes every issue in American Gangs today. The ultimate goal of this book is how the gang officers work and the different kind of atmosphere they work in. Their job isn’t like other law enforcement jobs. It’s one of the more dangerous occupation in the Criminal Justice system. These gang officers focus on how they react to public gang issues.

Gang violence in youth has gotten to far there are more and more juveniles getting recruited by gang members in society. We here all these gang violence going on and sadly most of the gang activity that goes on is done by juveniles. Being a part of a low income society I see what kind of people are involve in gang activity and many mostly all are under age making them strive for respect with our fearing consequences. Like sated on the LAPD websites the fill us the community in on how early gangs start recruiting juveniles as described on their web site it sates “Gang involvement can begin as early as elementary school. Children as young as seven or eight years of age have been recruited to work in criminal street gangs. Many parents and educators

After many mixtapes and nearing the edge of household name status, Maryland rapper Logic drops his first album. In this album is a song titled Gang Related. This song tells the story of what environment and household he grew up in. His brother is in a gang and sells cocaine to his father in front of him. Logic's mother is in an out of mental institutions, all the while logic is growing up and trying not to get shot when he walks outside. With drugs and gangs all around him, it is quite amazing that he got out and become a famous rapper. Gang Related also has a core message of stopping the violence, which leads to a question, is this song about his story or a message about ending the violence?

In low income areas and large cities, gang violence is a major problem. Gang violence in Chicago is reaching alarming proportions. Day by day they are increasing rapidly. None of the solutions work effectively to eliminate gangs. However police departments and other government officials are trying their best to provide the same security as other areas in chicago. Thousands of innocent people are dying each year from these ill mannered thugs. In today’s societies gang activity is everywhere, whether it includes violence, drugs, death or any illegal activity. There are several aspects which are causing these violent activities. In past years the police department and the mayor designed different strategies to stop this violence. From my perspective better education and scholarships are the only way to reduce gangs and other illegal activities.

Sarah Manning's journey starts when she realizes that her daughter and sisters are in danger. First, a guy named Rudy discover where they live. He wants to kill Sarah, so he points a knife in the throat of her daughter, Kira, to make Sarah come with him. She punches Rudy in the face, and they start to fight, but he faints, and Sarah escapes with Kira. Then Sarah is noticed that one of her sisters, Helena, was kidnapped by the group of Rudy, the Castors. She leaves Kira with her dad, and goes to find her sister. The Castors were in the desert doing illegal experiment with Helena. Sarah comes, tries to fight with them, but she gets imprisoned too. While they are in custody, they get hungry and electrocuted many times. Sarah helps Helena to escape, but unfortunately she can't save herself. Her friend Paul pretends to work in Castor to save Sarah. He opens the door, and gets her a helicopter. After, he comes back to where the Castors were living, and put a bomb there, but that bomb ends killing himself. Sarah faces some problems, and in the end she has a bigger problem just like all hero's

For years, gang crime has been loathed by society, as society has perceived it to threaten the well-being of its members. In addition to the fear of gang violence, concerns have been raised of gangs polluting youth; hence, policing strategies have emerged more increasingly in an attempt to put an end to the delinquency. Nevertheless, for society the causation of gang crime has been discussed to a lesser extent; thus, the objective of this essay will be to depict a viable explanation of gang crime through the use of two criminological theories. To accomplish the task at hand; I shall, define gang crime, provide a description of social disorganization theory, illustrate how the application of social disorganization theory provides an explanation of gang crime, describe differential opportunity theory, demonstrate how differential opportunity theory can explain gang crime, and exemplify as to which theory provides a superior explanation of gang crime. In the end, it will be clear that social disorganization theory is a superior explanation of gang crime in comparison to differential opportunity theory, due to its ability to deliver a more enhanced explanation than the one that is provided by differential opportunity theory.

I have observed that individuals and communities, and institutions think that poverty, gang violence and child abuse is what represent who you are and where you belong. Going through poverty, gang violence and child abuse would lead individuals in the wrong direction in life. When an individual or a communities see a gang member or someone they don’t care about that person because they say once you’re in the hole it hard to come back out. I just think it wrong for individuals and communities to judge people the way they do. People are the way they for a reason. Everybody has a kind heart. They made not seem like they do but they do. Their mostly likely that because there not given love or support. Like in the story said they in need of attention.

The neighborhood is a basically a graveyard of American dreams. Like everyone else in America, Smiley values individualism, achievement, money, and family unity highly. However he is in a hostile society where his rough background is rejected and regarded as a stigma. He does not have education or an escape from his neighborhood where people are under a great strain. The reason

The purpose of this paper is to review and verify a recent study by Scott H. Decker of the University of Missouri – St. Louis, entitled Collective and Normative Features in Gang Violence (Decker & VanWinkle, 1996). The study will attempt to address why our local increase in gang violence has reached monumental heights causing an increase in gang members appearing your court.

But then she heard footsteps upstairs when she got to the room she saw 4 military men standing then BOOM Valentina got smacked in the head with a gun. When she woke up she was shivering and was wet that’s when SPLASH they dropped cold water on her. They opened the cage and got her out and took her to the chief. Then she saw Angel and Jose tied she tried to get loose from the men that were grabbing her arms as tight as they could. When she started walking she saw a family being tortured that’s when Valentina bit on of the men in his hand, when she got loose she started running toward her brothers but something stopped her by the hair and it was the CHIEF. Valentina was in front of her parents killers she spitted the CHIEF in the face and Valentina recived a slap. The CHIEF told his men “Look her up tomorrow morning she's not gonna be in this camp site anymore.” Then Valentina started to get worried she didn't know what they were going to do with her brothers. They threw Valentina in the cage but she wasn’t alone. When she turned there was a girl and told Valentina “Hi my name is Belinda what's yours?”, when Valentina introduced herself and told Belinda why she was here, Belinda told her “Do you wanna escape and help your brothers.” Valentina said “Yes but how are we going to escape,” “Well espece in the middle of the night” Belinda said. When it was the middle of the night Belinda had a

Abstract: This review studies in depth research done on street gangs. Social issues have social scientists turning away from including this in their research around this time. Sociological views have been changed dramatically in the past 40 years due to gender and racial studies. Also, women have started to join gangs since America has been changed with woman equality laws passing.

She spends a lot of time with Will. So she has seen much of Blaze, since the incident at the store. Ronnie is still battling with her dad about how she honestly didn’t steal those bracelets, but the store owner pursues to press charges. Ronnie also starts to actually talk to her dad, and asks him why he didn’t stay with the family. Why this place to live instead of closer, and just tries to actually get to know him. He tells her that this is the place he grew up in with his parents, and the old church down the road burnt down with him in it which is why he is remaking a window with Jonah for it. She gets to know Will a little bit more too, how his parents are, and a huge house they live in. Gets to know will a little better on the inside and actually changes her perception on him. He had a brother that he lost in a car accident a couple of years ago, and a sister that is getting married in a couple of weeks that he invites Ronnie too. When looking for a dress she passes Blaze fighting with her boyfriend still and gives her cash to get on her feet and leave him, which she turns down so Ronnie leaves it there for her when she wants it. When Ronnie gets to the wedding she sees Blaze working and congratulates her. They get back to Ronnie’s house and finds out that all this time that her dad has been blamed for the fire of the church, it was really Will and his

There was a troubled 17 year old boy, his name was Alexander. He grew up in a poor household with abusive parents. He struggled with anger issues, depression, drug abuse, and had an amazing girlfriend her name was Nadia. They went along like two peas in a pod. Nadia grew up in a troubled household as well. Her mother was a drug addict and was never home or there for her in general, and her father was never in the picture until she was 5 years old. She was taken away from her household by the cops for neglect and abuse. She had two older sisters Amanda and Charlene. When the cops took them all away out of their mothers grasp, Nadia was separated from her two older sisters and was sent to foster care, that 's how her father had found her.

When she is a teenager, Nikita is abused by her foster-parents. After running away from her home, she becomes a drug addict and, in an accident, she is told to have killed a police officer. The teenage Nikita is charged with murder and sentenced to death. However, a secret