Gang Vs Traditional Gang

The gang in Memphis, Tn migrated from Chicago and California, in which they called themselves the Crips and the Bloods subsets, Gangster Disciples, Vice Lords, Latin Kings, Blac P. Stones, Four Corner Hustles to name a few. These gangs are known for their juvenile memberships. However, the Gang Reduction Assistance for Saving Society's Youth (GRASSY) program has provided resources for gang members by making nearby streets more feasible. This organization has reduced gang conflicts in nearby school by 63 percent. In doing such there is an increase in school attendance and graduation of gang members. It is Ron Pope goal to ensure that school-age student will become inactive in their gang membership(Goggans, L., 2014). In the state of Tennessee,

There were seven hundred recorded gang-related expulsions from educational institutions in Memphis in 2010 (Operation: Safe Community, 2011). The most current data I was able to locate suggests a steady incline in youth identified as gang members in Memphis, increasing from six hundred sixty in 2007 to eight hundred sixteen in 2009. There are nine thousand one hundred documented gang members and one hundred and seventy gangs in Memphis (Goggans, 2014). These numbers only reflect the known

Youths frequently use language, dress, musical tastes, along with other symbols to differentiate themselves using their company categories of adolescents. Gangs represent a definite kind of relationship and therefore have distinct symbols and traditions. These symbols are essential for the reason that they function as a method of determining fellow gang people and rival gang people. Additionally they be the method for attaining or maintaining status inside the gang.

According to the article, Why Young People Join Gangs and What You Can Do, today's gangs are portrayed by their variety in region, group, and their engagement in criminal or delinquent activities. In today's society, people are more conscious of the gangs forming all around the world. Many different ethnic and socioeconomic groups make up gangs and most gang members lean to be adolescents or young adults. Recent information shows that children are being engaged into gangs at a much younger age, to young that they are still in elementary school. But some gangs are formed by young middle school teenagers and grow from there to become a criminal and delinquent gang. Gang activity has been limited to cities but gangs are no longer just in large cities, but in smaller towns and rural areas. Reasons may vary in to which why they join gangs, many children tend to not receive much attention from their family members, causing them to join gangs because they are attended there and seek attention as they want. Others tend to join because they, gain power, money, or even safety.

Thank you for your comment on my post. It's a pleasure to share some points in common. I would agree, that the characteristics are unlimited to subdivide each gang upon it's own description. They are viriable upon the situation, location, social environement and even genetics in some cases. However, there are a possibility to trace gang's activities and to split it in sub- categories. Nonetheless, those sub-categories content is based on illicit activities, and as I said in my post, Omaha police Dept. Declared, that 'not all gang are bad', but if their activities are good, than it won't be a gung but something else. Like for example, it can be named an organization insted of gang, with the primary propose of their activity/ies based on their common

In building upon the precedent set within the Riverside community of Memphis, I would direct the Multi-Agency Gang Unit to gather more intelligence about other gangs within the city (Goggans, 2014). The Riverside Rollin’ 90 Crips were deemed to be a public nuisance

One of the many problems involved with gang injunctions is that there is not a clear definition of what a gang is. Numerous definitions of gangs have come about through the decades. For example, the 2006 National Youth Gang Survey defines a gang as “a group of youths in your jurisdiction that you are willing to classify as a gang” (Egley, O’Donnell, 2008). This definition of a gang is very vague because any group of youths can be seen as a gang. This definition does not always work. For example, a group of people who share a common interest like reading books or collecting baseball cards can be labeled as a “gang.” The National Gang Center and federal law define a gang as “any ongoing group, club, organization, or association of five or more person: A) that has as one of its primary purposes the commission of one or more of the criminal offenses; B) the members of which engage, or have engaged within the past five years, in a continuing series of offenses; and C) the activities of which affect interstate or foreign commerce (Brief review of Federal and State definitions, 2009, p.1).

Our class had the honor to see a presentation presented by Clayton State police gang unit about how gangs affect our cities. The presentation started off explaining laws statue on what is considered as a gang. There are only three ways to join a gang getting Blessed in, Jump in, or put in work. Gang members usually use colors and hand gestures to express their gang ties and loyalty to their gang members.This comes as no surprise that the Clayton State gang unit are able to identify gangbangers and know which turf they use as their hangout spot. The interesting fact about gangs is that they don’t hide their criminal behavior which can be seen in rap videos or home made movies. One police officer showed us a video which the gangbangers were

Tita, G., & Ridgeway, G. (2007). The Impact of Gang Formation on Local Patterns of Crime. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 208-237. doi: 10.1177/0022427806298356

There are many definitions for what a gang is. According to The National Gang Center website, one definition of a gang is a group of youngsters or adolescents who associate closely, often exclusively, for social reasons, especially a group engaging in delinquent behavior such as a gang of thieves. Some factors that make a gang a gang are that the group has three or more members, generally aged 12–24, the members share an identity, typically linked to a name, and often other symbols. The members view themselves as a gang, and they are recognized by others as a gang. The group has some permanence and a degree of organization and the group is involved in an elevated level

Department of Justice and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, released the National Gang Center Bulletin (No.5) (Arciaga, Jones, & Sakamoto, 2010). Within it, a survey of high school and middle school students responded that 45% and 35% respectively reported gang activity at their schools. Within private schools encompassing the same ages, only 2% of students reported knowing or of being a gang member (Arciaga, et al, 2010). Gangs reported in 2003 were comprised of mostly males (95.7%), and when broken down into race, blacks represented 57%, whites represented 30%, and other were 13% (Sharpe, 2003). Many of these students who were involved in gangs did not graduate from high school or earn a GED (Sharpe,

In the early twentieth century, the term “gang” was associated with groups in socially disorganized and deteriorated inner-city neighborhoods: It was applied to juveniles who engaged in a variety of delinquencies, ranging from truancy, street brawls, and beer running to race riots, robberies, and other serious crimes (Regoli, Hewitt, DeLisi, 2011). There were several gangs within the United States, which included street gangs, prison gangs, motorcycle gangs, and organized crime gangs that still exist today. The word “gang” is derived from the word “gonge,” which is a term that means a journey. Frederic Thrasher who was called the “Father of Gang Research”, who defined the word gang as kids in the streets back in the 1920s.

America graffiti acquired its bad rap from the “hippie’ era. Protesters of the Vietnam War and other political and worldviews began to appear on college campus and city walls. Gangs emerged from an increase of immigrants and their need to integrate. Many youths in large cities such as Los Angeles and New York City “joined gangs to help them gain a group identity, defend themselves against other groups, and establish a unified presence.” (Doak 16). Gangs identify themselves in many ways; their clothing, colors, even their language and slang terms helps differentiate themselves from other gangs. Another common identifier is to mark their

Thrasher characterised gang with certain features, including milling, meeting face-to-face, conflict, movement through spaces as a

Being aware of the gangs and gang members in America's communities is necessary, for, it can help citizens keep track of how the gangs in their areas operate. Typically, gang members will have their gang symbol tattooed on part of their body, or, they will flag (wear) the colors of their gang on their clothing. Believe it or not, gang members are proud of what they represent and they will wear their gang’s colors every day. Some gang members will go as far as painting their vehicles the color of their gang. Gangs do not just recruit adults into their gang, they also recruit kids. Reports of gang presence in cities across the United States have grown exceptionally since 1990 (Klein & Maxson, 2006). There are kids as young as 8 years old claiming to represent gangs, and