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Differences: The Role Of Gangs In Society

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When we hear the word gang we automatically think about crime and violence committed by a certain group of people. The misconception of how we generally associate “gangs” is extended to us by main stream society which relates that gangs are linked to antisocial behavior and are to be composed of generally of criminal involvement with violent motives. An actual definition for what a gang is does not exist due to that gangs vary on a number of dimensions including size, use of symbolic representations of membership, age of gang, age of members, level of organization, and involvement in crime (). There exist a variety of gangs, no two gangs are alike and their role in society may be distinct for example one gang might be good and another gang

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