Gang

There are many effective ways to intervene positively when dealing with gangs just like Gregory Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries continues to do. Fr. Boyles approach to gang intervention is effective because he fills in these voids within the gang members that need help. Not only does he fill the voids but he succeeds by creating a community, having continuous redemption, and mercy for the those who excessively make mistakes. Although, Fr. Boyles approach isn’t 100% effective, it changes…

Gangs in the United States have evolved from malignant neighborhood groups into lucrative businesses and brutal vigilantes. Harvard University Professor Roland Fryer concludes the Crack Epidemic fundamentally transformed gangs because the booming drug trade incentivized larger and more sophisticated gangs (9). Similarly, the rapidly increasing opioid market in rural and suburban America explains the development of gangs in those areas (Whalen). Unfortunately, addiction and drug sales often bring…

anger and also the formation of alternative values that endorses and normalises gang membership and violence (Pitts, 2008). Likewise, the gang can be seen as a place for gang members to express their masculinity. Although the research on gangs and masculinity is limited in…

and Jack Bynum’s Juvenile Delinquency: A Sociological Approach, “A gang is a group of recurrently associating individuals with identifiable leadership and internal organization, identifying with or claiming control over territory in a community, and engaging either individually or collectively in violent or other forms of illegal behavior” (274). Gangs have been an issue for years and depending on one’s status within society, gangs are some parent’s worst fears. No parent wants their child to…

As stated by Miller, Hess, and Orthmann (2014), The gang is, first and foremost, a community problem. It is the community’s kids who decided whether or not to form or join gangs, and it is the community’s residents, institutions, and businesses that are most victimized by gang activity. (p.384) As a result of the intense influence gangs have upon the youth a community policing program called G.R.E.A.T was created. The G.R.E.A.T program targets children in elementary and middle schools. This…

These gangs are Hispanic based and have been linked to the Mexican Mafia with charges of racketeering, extorting money from drug sales, and conspiring to kill rivals. We know these organizations exist and operate because of the ever increasing crime rates and death tolls. These gangs operate widely in low income Latino neighborhoods, which raises the opinion that maybe if we supplied these neighborhood…

Japan has done some operations that have helped freed people who have been held in captivity. Recently in Tokyo the police force raided one of the Yakuzas owned brothels. Seven members of the yakuza gang was arrested and fifteen females were rescued and freed. This is not the first one time this happened. In the last twenty to thirty years the police force has been raiding many brothels in order to free the people who are working against their will. The police force has also been going into the…

24% of Canada has reported gang activity, (“Youth gangs in Canada”). A gang is a group of people who are associated together for criminal purposes. Some gangs can control entire neighbourhood which can result to everyone following their laws. Gangs are always on the hunt for new recruits, especially young ones because that is what will make them stronger as a group. This puts the youth of Canada at danger of going down a path that they will regret in the future. Gangs can only have negative…

Gangs offer a twisted sense of love by telling its members that they have to take part in criminal activities and put their lives in danger for it. As gangs evolved throughout the years the level of violence and crime has increased dramatically; they have become a serious cancer in our society. It has stripped the family unit and a sense of community. No longer are young people focusing on their true value and worth but their focused on destroying one another. Gangs have become a detrimental…

Social Problems Associated with Street Gangs Gangs are getting to be pervasive in today's general public and inside of our schools. More youngsters are swinging to groups trying to get away from their regular lives and the future, which they see as horrid and somber. They are at first pulled in to the glory and income, which is glamorized by the street posse. Numerous packs are effectively included in criminal wrongdoing, for example, medication and firearm trafficking, robberies and…