Gang Violence Essay

L.A. Gang Member by Sanyika Shakur aka Kody Scott depicts all of the events that Kody went through from the day he joined a gang up until when he decides to leave the gang, and his life after the gang. He joined the Eight Tray Crips when he was only eleven years old. He gets initiated into the gang after his sixth grade graduation, and he describes his initiation as an even bigger right of passage into society than his own graduation. The reasons that Kody suggests that he had joined a gang has to

Guatemala’s violence today. One form of crime that Guatemala faces is drug trafficking. Guatemala connects the United States, South America, and Mexico together when it comes to drugs trafficking (Bunck). There are many drug trafficking routes that pass throughout Guatemala, so they can distribute it to larger organizations in Mexico and Colombia. In addition, drug related crimes goes hand and hand with gangs. Gangs in Guatemala are spreading rapidly, many people are born into gangs and cannot leave

Written Assignment Three The gang culture glorifies alcohol and substance use and a lavish lifestyle but doesn’t reveal the brutal initiation process that is required to get to that point. It also doesn’t discuss the repercussions that are associated with refusing to participate in the gangs’ day-to-day activities. This lifestyle can result in much more than just a poor reputation when you have reached adulthood but possibly incarceration or even death. Many adolescents fail to realize that their

This paper will discuss organized crime and use the case of a youth gang called the 18th Street Gang, the largest youth gang in the Western Hemisphere, to answer the question: Why do youth join gangs? The members of the 18th Street Gang have so much power that they were able to control the entire transportation system in El Salvador (Markham 2015). Members open fired at passengers and drivers, torched down busses and killed people who were riding in pickup trucks as an alternative way to get to and

Gangs are not a new phenomenon, or a new problem. Gangs have been around for a long time, and will continue to grow and transform throughout the world. I have viewed gangs in a negative manner, and have carried a false misconception of what exactly a gang is. Television and media is partially to blame for society’s view on gangs and gang violence. Today, there are dozens of “reality” television shows about gangs. It is no surprise the information that we take in through television on the topic of

social and economic factors. Harsh economic conditions can cause them to adopt deviant behavior such as criminal activities. Social factors such as racism and discrimination provoke violence in immigrants as society refuses to accommodate them. They are as a result alienated from the society and find solace in violence. They are always hunted by the authorities who often put them in rehabilitation and correctional facilities. Mexican immigrants in U.S were prejudiced and exploited in workplaces because

nonstop bloodshed occurring in Southside Chicago and various women who decide to withhold physical affection, particularly sex, from their husbands and significant others as punishment for the unrelenting gun violence. The women who spark this protest are the girlfriends of two rival Chicago gangs: Cyclops and Spartans. This protest essentially leads to a “battle of the sexes” where women refuse access to their bodies and adopt a new identity of empowerment while men feel that they are being wrongfully

Gangs of New York is considered by most scholars to be a historical narrative that reflects on the influence of class politics in the molding of the U.S. Amsterdam, the protagonist in the film, comments on how New York City, “wasn’t a city really. It was more a furnace where a city someday might be forged,” reflects on this argument that Gangs of New York is illustrative of how America came to be what it is today (Gangs of New York, 00:16:46-52). I agree with this interpretation of the film and will

Pressure from Texas Attorney, Paxton, on Trump to end Obama’s executive order supporting 800,000 undocumented immigrants has caused an overabundance of social and political turmoil. Opposition argues undocumented immigrants have invaded and freeloaded on the opportunities of hard-working, deserving Americans. And, supporters substantiate the harmlessness of the executive order by underlining how those benefited by DACA are active in student and labor forces that are integral to the U.S. economy.

Introduction The death penalty has always been a part of the criminal justice system since the code of Hammurabi. Since the existence of criminal law there has always been a form of punishment for those who break it. The modern-day. The death penalty has become an anachronism and has also become a defective form of punishment for its contradicting model; a discriminatory system; the execution of innocent people; the cost; and the inhumane methods of execution —therefore, it should be outlawed nationwide