Gang of Four

label gang has been applied to various groups including outlaws of the nineteenth-century American West, prison inmates, Mafioso and other organized criminals, motorcyclists, and groups of inner city youths. Despite its diverse application, the term gang almost always connotes involvement in disreputable or illegal activities. Social scientists use the term gang most frequently when describing groups of juveniles. This tendency dates back to Frederic Thrasher 's The Gang: A Study of 1,313 Gangs in Chicago

well as juvenile gangs are interesting and popular topic in the world of criminal justice. What criminological theories tie in with the problems of juvenile delinquency, juvenile gangs, and the reasons why juveniles do what they do? This paper explains the theories that tie in with the why, and how juveniles end up the way they do. Using the different theories explained in this paper you could hypothesize an explanation as to why the juvenile committed a crime or joined a gang. This paper touches

inspecting the crew, and seizing sailors who were accused of being escapees from British ships. The British used impressment because the Royal Navy was on a war footing and need all the sailors it could obtain. Impressment was more commonly known as “press gangs” and was regularly recruitment by force. Between 1803 and 1812, around 6,000

alike, not only in the offenses they have committed, but in other significant social respects as well. And, in turn, they are markedly dissimilar from all members of conventional society. William J. Chambliss, in a study of two different high school gangs, finds variations in social responses to deviance that attest to the power

more. "Mafia families were growing very large in 1800?s" (Mafia History). The reason for the large swelling of crime in America was because of the vicious increase in foreign immigrants during that time in America. "Three million Irish, four million Italians, and four million Jews immigrated to America. They immigrated for a

A counterculture is a subculture that rejects the major values of the larger society and replaces them with a new set of cultural patterns (Thomas). The Gevonese crime family is one of the countercultures in America. The reason why the Gevonese family is a counterculture is because of their acts of crime and their code of Omertá-a rule that forbids speaking or providing knowledge about specific activities, even the activities of a criminal group (Farlex). Their actions and code of Omertá is unacceptable

the bush, and the officer arrived to arrest Ellen and Dan claimed that Ned had attempted to shoot him and a bounty of one-hundred pounds were placed on Ned and Dan. Ned Kelly and Dan Kelly were joined by Joe Byrne and Steve Hart, forming the Kelly gang. They killed three policemen and robbed multiple national banks. By December 1870 there was a bounty of 12, 000 pounds on the Kelly

mentally and physically.For example, in the end of the story “On the Sidewalk Bleeding” Andy ends up dying because people got scared to help him due to Andy being in the gang “The Royals”.This shows how the people got scared to help Andy because they didn’t want to get involved with the gangs and they got scared of the things the gang would do to them if they found out that they helped Andy.Another example from

staff, and inmates. Inmates that possess certain characteristics that require additional or different care than others are often called a special offender population. The label of special offender population can relate to mental health capacity, gang affiliation, age, or gender identity disorder. Each of these populations of inmates require the correctional administration and officers to consider alternative forms of risk assessment at intake, alternative treatment and control, and possible alternatives

Character Development in Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang   Search and Rescue, Utah State Police, and Bishops of the Church of Latter-Day Saints chase a group of bridge destroying, billboard burning, bulldozer mutilating eco-terrorists through the desert of the Southwest. The group known as the Monkey Wrench Gang consists of four very different characters: Seldom Seen Smith, also known as Joseph Smith, George Washington Hayduke, Doctor A. K. Sarvis, and Bonnie Abbzug. Each character has