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Gangs and Violence in California This paper was done in response to an article that I came across in which a child was convicted as an adult for homicide. The homicide was supposedly gang-related; the young child that was only 14 years of age was painted as an entrenched gang member. This article made me think what contributed to this situation and how it can be eradicated from today’s society so this will never happen to any of our youth. The solutions provided in this document are a response

“A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide” said Mickey Mantle. This quote shows the role of a gang. These gangs are due to whether they are acceptable or dreadful. What is a purpose of a gang, and how does the gang member become the leader. Gangs influence youth negatively and lead them to crime. Are gangs accept full or dreadful? In our opinion gangs are dreadful, because all the gangs do nothing, but they cause violence. For example, they cause

Youths Joining Gangs Intro to Criminology Professor Martinez Kyle Tenorio Kyle Tenorio Into to Criminology Professor Martinez 5 September, 2015 Youths Joining Gangs An issue that I decided to discuss in further detail that occurs nation wide is youths deciding to join gangs. We may all have our speculations as to why youths get involved with gangs, but the constant question is why do youths actually decide to join gangs? I believe that youths join gangs because of the situation they may be

Adolescent violence has turned into an expanding issue in the U.S. youth violence and young people raised in the 1990s and has stayed high. Youth are the in all probability gathering to be casualties or culprits of high school violence, however the after effects of teenager violence influence everybody. Youth brutality insights demonstrate this is a significant issue: A normal of 15 youngsters are killed every day in the U.S., and more than 80 percent of those are killed with firearms (Khey, 2008)

together, they were more of an annoyance for the communities rather than feared gangs. In 1791, gangs were such a problem in Philadelphia that the city leaders held an emergency meeting to decide how to deal with their city's gang problem. Evidently they didn’t come up with any viable solutions back then either. The early 1800s brought a definite distinction in social classes and the gang problem continued to proliferate. Gangs were generally comprised of members of the same race and

Have you ever thought joining a gang?. Every year teenagers are getting killed, it's mostly children between 9 and order. That's not the only problems that gangs have, most gangs members are getting addicted to drugs and alcohol. This is why gangs are turning into problems. We don't want to see our family members getting killed or addicted to this problem. A gang is a group of people that claim a territory. They go by colors, they wear bandanas, scarves or by racist. They usually

Gangs, what are they? Who are they? And why are they a problem? What do we think of when we hear the word gang, overall it’s a word that comes with a lot of negative baggage, violence and not a very good thing. The word gang can have a lot of different meanings of people coming together for something. However, today in our societies the word gangs is defined as an organized group of criminals. A gang is a group of persons with close social relations that work together in unlawful ways for their profit

Gang violence is becoming a known threat in our country. Gang violence is defined as a group of people by repetitive socializing individuals or close friends with recognizable influence and inner coordination. These gangs will claim full control over a region in a community, town, or specific area which will lead to the involvement of violent crimes and unlawful behavior as a group or even by oneself. Since these gangs are increasing in size in communities, citizens of certain areas are beginning

This paper addresses the Gangs and Violent Crimes one issue associated with Gangs and violent crimes are how we can prevent gangs and violent crime from happening all over the United States as a whole. Most people do not realize gangs and violent crimes it is not just happening in one city or state it is happening everywhere. Furthermore there should be ways to prevent gangs and them committing violent crimes from affecting our communities and streets. This paper will examine the following areas

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