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Gangs have been and will always be a part of society unless we take action now to discontinue the trend. The definition of a gang is an organized group of criminals. There’s plenty of consequences to being in gangs, alternatives to being in a gang, and signs of someone being in a gang. Gangs are dispersed throughout the United States and may be located in your local area. There’s a lot of consequences to being in gangs that many young people don’t know about. Since a lot of gangs target on recruiting

Our article is “Supporting Gang Violence Prevention Efforts: A Public Health Approach for Nurses”. Health providers might not think they would see the words “gang violence” and “public health” together. But the nurses who work in emergency rooms, schools, local public health agencies, and health clinics in an environment with high levels of gang activities are higher at risk to encounter gang situations. In this article, it said that from 2002 to 2006, gangs were responsible for approximately 20%

Running Head: YOUTHS AND GANGS IN SCHOOL 1 YOUTHS AND GANGS IN SCHOOL 14 Youths and Gangs in School Antoinette Harrison Central Penn College Abstract It is common and sagacious to have a look at the mental health, psychology, and educational concerns about our youth and children as they do pose distinct and separate problems

November 8,2017 Gangs, are they good for our community? Gangs, they’re all around us,everywhere,and anywhere. How do us americans feel about gangs, and their affects on our environment ? I’m against gangs because of their affect on our youth. It affects the youth causing distractions, peer pressure, and blocking opportunities for them. Gangs are one of the top three causes of crime in America today. And gives America’s crime system a lot of difficulty with solving the problem. Gangs are and have

looking over one’s shoulder so that the gang will not hurt them or a family member. Gang Control Strategies To control gangs, law enforcement agencies have used preventive approaches, including community organization, social intervention, opportunity provision, suppression and organizational change (Spergel, 1990). Not unlike the ones that were talked about earlier. Suppression has historically been a major strategy used by police and involves targeting gang leaders and hard-core members for surveillance

The term ‘Girl Gang’ refers to girls and young women’s membership in groups associated with violence and criminal activities (Southgate 2011).Within the book ‘Social Problems in the UK’, girl’s gang is a sub-topic under the chapter ‘Youth Gangs’.It is not a chapter on its own because much focus and discussion has being placed on male gangs. As such, the author Young (2015), analyses the level of female crimes and involvement in street-based gangs. She questions the extent of girl gang and seek toanswer

Carolina Governor’s crime commission states that there are 1,446 gangs across the state with a total of 19,000 members. The average age of gang membership is 15 years old (Our Initiatives-Gang Prevention). In the 1980’s national gangs began to shift from just the bad street type local criminals to taking on public arrangements involved with drug trafficking and other illegal activities. As there power and membership increased gangs were being recognized in locations outside of their regular neighborhood

Gangs are very dangerous to everyone in society. “Gangs are groups of people (mostly young males) who band together for protection and a sense of belonging. The U.S. Department of Justice officially defines a youth gang as a group of young people involved in criminal activity” (Gangs 1). There are about one million gang members in more than 20,00 criminally active gangs in the United States. Also, that group of about one million people, are accountable for up to eighty percent of our nation’s crimes

According to our textbook, there are four different types of gangs. They are: social gang, party gang, serious delinquent gang, and organized gang. Different gangs concentrate on protecting specific areas of a community or on specific activities for example drugs, theft, or other serious offenses. Social Gangs are those that are “Involved in few delinquent activities and little drug use other than alcohol and marijuana. Members are more interested in social activities” (Siegel and Welsh 219). Social

The drug they specifically examined was crack cocaine, and data was obtained from a specific gang, which in my opinion, was actually more of a firm/business. To quote our authors once again, “a crack gang works pretty much like the standard capitalist enterprise: wages are about as skewed as wages in corporate America. Criminals, like everyone else, respond to incentives” (Levitt and Dubner, 2005). This gangs’, or firms’, members all operated based on the incentives that they believed existed. Most