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Gangs: Sub-Categories

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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 …show more content…

I like and do agree, with Ball and Curry(1995), while they quote Miller's teleological hypothesis (1959) defining the gang as “ a stable and solitary primary group preparing the young male for an adult role in lower- classe

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