Essays on Youth Gangs

Research Paper

Abstract The youth is the most at-risk group in terms of gang membership nowadays. It has been found in several studies that gang involvement largely appeal to adolescents, especially those living in poor neighborhoods, estranged or alienated in schools, and in conflict with police authorities or the larger criminal justice system. Researchers reported that the youth turns to gangs to compensate for their lack of adequate and proper socialization. Large communities, or areas with sizable populations, have serious gang-related problems. This paper discusses existing empirical studies on gang formation, membership, and violence. There is a considerable dearth of studies ...

CONTENTS 1. Introduction 3 2. The Causes of Juvenile Crime and Masculinity Theories 4 2.1. Connell’s Hegemonic Masculinity Theory 4 2.2. Youth Gangs in the USA and Masculine Gang Formation 5 2.3. The Causes of Juvenile Gang Crime 6 3. Discussion and conclusions 8

References 9

Introduction The United States of America has one of the highest incarceration and crime rates in worldwide. In accordance with the findings of the United States Department of Justice approximately 10-12% of all crime perpetrated in the country is attributed to the minors. Despite the fact that there is a steady decline of crime ...

Organized crime integrates established successful principles used by lawful business organizations (Mallory, 2012). Accordingly, they operate like business enterprises only that what they do is illegal. The causative factors for these groups range from ethnicity, race, and political. The common factor however is they are all illegal.

Examples of organized criminal groups based on race or ethnicity in California are the Bloods and the Los Angeles crime family. Both groups are highly centralized with a chain of command. In both, the top brass are rarely seen in public but the group’s presence is felt and seen in public; owing ...

Gangs are considered the sources of violence and danger being treated as the cause of instability and threat to the state. The history of American gangs have a lot of peculiarities distinguishing street gangs of the US from the rest of the world due to uncommon social, ethnical and race background. Howell (2012) being a prominent expert in youth and traditional gangs in America examines the gang phenomena in several major US regions: West, South, Northeast and Midwest. In order to understand the specificity of gangs' activity we need to focus on cultural and migration peculiarities of the gangs. Population ...

A great tragedy that appears in the Latin American cities is the large number of street children, and they appear to bear and be part of more problems within the society. However, focusing on the street children and their role in the urban problems, it appears that the problems lie a little deeper than one can expect (Barry and Huff Stevenson, chapter 9). A Brazilian movie by the name City of God depicts the issue of street children and other problems that emerge from the same. Several planning issues such as a global city, urban crime as well as youth gangs ...

In the olden times, it was the primary duty of men to provide food and care for their family. Men would search for food and fight if the need arises in order to keep their family away from harm. As the world advanced, women started taking different roles which were considerably different from being protected and taken care of in the past. Fast forward to the present, women are now active participants in shaping the society and in most parts of the world, this new representation of women as successful and hard-working are widely accepted. According to psychologist Cordelia ...

Abstract

Social development often comes with a series of problems that generally identifies the concept of survival of the residents of a particular domain. As for the United States and its people, such series of problems could be accounted against the emergence of gangs and the conflicting values they share with the government and the society as a whole. In the discussion that follows, a distinct presentation on how gangs developed in the country and how such history redefined the face of the American society shall be given attention to.

Gangs and Drugs in the United States

Introduction The word ‘gang’ is simply noted as a term that refers to the ...

Was violence a necessary and effective vehicle in characterising man’s masculinity in Fight Club?

In a research conducted by Johan Galtung, 95% of all violence committed in the world today is attributed to men (1). However, this does not signify that all men are violent or that violence is exclusive to men. Rather, the study shows that violence seems to be exercised by men to a greater degree. This attitude of men towards violence is best explained through the differences among individuals prescribed by the society in terms of gender. According to Raewyn Connell, a notable researcher in the field of gender and masculinity, gender is “the structure of social relations that centers on the reproductive ...

Dalis Manley

CRJ301 Week 2 Assignment Youth Gang Activity According to the information provided by the Juvenile Court Statistics 2010, there has been an increase in the caseloads involving the youth between the years 1985 to 2010. These caseloads involve offences to the person, offences to property, drug offences and public order. The following chart shows a comparison of the offences committed by females and males in the year 2010 alone. According to juvenile justice factsheet, however, there was a substantial decrease in the rate of crime by the year 2010 as compared to the earlier years but the survey ...

Introduction

Refugees fled from Sudan to Egypt following widespread violence in their mother country. Following the Darfur crisis caused by both the First and the Second Civil War, Sudanese have been persecuted causing them to flee for their safety. The First and the Second Civil War happened in different times in history in Sudan. Indeed, the most significant number of refugees in Egypt is made up of Sudanese refugees. The civil war was mainly as a result of differences in tribal culture and religious division between the inhabitants of Sudan in the North and South. Nonetheless, the entry of Sudanese refugees ...

Communication

The Nation-State and the Media-UK and IRAQ Introduction The globalization of media has encompassed to cover the development and application of formal and informal rules to form allegiances with governments and nations. Price (2002) stated that after the September 11, 2011 terrorist bombing incident that occurred in the U.S., several states all over the world have now become more precise about conflict, instability and ideology by recognizing the sentiments of the people. The war on terrorism has become the main objective of states such as UK and Iraq. The discovery of new technologies and the developments ...

Ferro, Jeffrey. Juvenile Crime. New York, NY: Facts on File, 2003. Print. Jeffrey Ferro’s journal article “Juvenile Crime” gives a state by state description and analysis of juvenile or youth crime. Since my research focuses on California, it was the state that I tended to concentrate more on. He gives illustrations as to why the youth decide to become delinquent and also gives a brief history of youth criminals in California. The only negative quality that I would probably attribute to Ferro’s literature is that he tends to concentrate more on the reasons why the youth in California ...

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A marginal youth group can be identified as a group of youth who have been identified by social workers as potential clients. Such groups exhibit some form of problem behavior or participate in some form of delinquent activities (Ngai et al, 2001). The police and private security guards are meant to provide security to the community and identify and protect the rights of these marginalized youth groups. However, the people who have the mandate to safeguard the rights of these groups are often seen as the violators of their rights. This is done by high handedness and implementation of laws ...

Youth gang involvement has been a crucial issue for both New York City and other big cities in the USA, mostly due to its social danger and strong interrelation with violent crimes. According to the Report by U.S. Department’s of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (2000),” despite years of research and years of suppression, intervention and prevention efforts, considerable disagreement exists regarding the nature and extent of youth gangs” (2). So, most of existing programs are designed to deal with quite a broad target (e.g., one program can target both gangs, which have organizational structure and lack it ...

BURGLARY

INTRODUCTION Burglary is one of the most rampant crimes in not only the urban but also the suburban areas in many nations. According to the FBI’S Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, burglary is the “unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or theft” (Criminal Justice Information Services Division, 2010, p. 1). It encompasses the unlawful entry to a structure with or without the use of force. Additionally, any forcible attempt to enter someone’s property is also classified as burglary. The United States of America has exhibited significantly large numbers of the crime. There has been a significant ...

This document is a report on an interview I carried out on 26th October, at 10 am. I interviewed a correctional officer called Anne working for Calgary’s young offenders Center. The interview happened over a phone call after I explained to the officer that I am a student at Bow Valley College. I also informed the officer that I was studying to become a correctional officer and he more than obliged to help me out. My interview contained five questions and the responses received have been discussed below.

After greetings with the corrections officer, I was offered the opportunity to ask questions. Straight ...