Gangs Gangs have existed since before the start of the twentieth century. They usually consist of young men between the ages of ten and twenty-five. Most gangs exist in poor and high crime area, however in the last twenty years more gangs have been started in suburban and affluent neighborhoods. Throughout the years many criminologists, psychiatrists and sociologists have studied the potential causes of kids joining gangs. They do this because they seek to understand the willingness of youths to
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Question 3: What do you believe was the impetus for the evolution of organized crime in the United States? What were the first organized crime groups in America? Answer: I think the motivation for the evolution of organized crime in the United States was money and power, and the expansion of markets (Mallory, 2012). Committing the illegal activity, such as drug trafficking, provided large sums of money to the members (Mallory, 2012). The need for products that organizations were distributing had
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Anderson Sa was born in 1979 in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. The area was beautiful but was home to the biggest drug cartels. Between 1987 and 2001 was the peak of violence in Rio. About four thousand minors were continuously dying in the slums of Brazil known as favelas. The areas were considered illegal by city officials. Most of the areas were unpaved, there were no sewers and electricity was absent. If you wanted your child to attend school, most would never exceed elementary school levels. Many of
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OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model one first needs to identify what is the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model. The OJJDP supported the development of a project to reduce and prevent gang violence among youth. The creator of the Comprehensive Gang Model was Doctor Irving Spergel who developed the model in 1987, which was comprised of five strategies for dealing with gang-involved youth and their families. The five identified strategies that were developed to reduce and prevent youth gang violence are community
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The RCMP is also involved in combating gang activity and in preventing youth from joining gangs. One of the RCMP's five strategic priorities is to reduce youth involvement in crime, with current priority issues being bullying, youth radicalization, and drugs and alcohol. The goal of the RCMP is to support sustainable responses that are consistent with the Youth Criminal Justice Act while focusing on early intervention and youth engagement. The RCMP increases youth awareness through programs such
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deliver messages to the youth about the dangerousness of gangs. Intervention aims towards people who are in gang that may be a victim to gang violence. Joint home visits is one way they can communicate to those people. Finally, enforcement is used to target the most criminally active gang members with gang injunctions as well as sentencing. The main goal of course is to keep gang violence from happening. By having all these ways to handle gang violence in the action plan helps. In the assessment section
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The city of Los Angeles is the gang capital of the world. As of today, there are more than 450 active gangs in the city of Los Angeles with a combined membership of over 45,000 individuals. Also, throughout the last three years there were over 16,398 confirmed gang offenses in SoCal. More than half of the homicides reported in Los Angeles, are elated to gang violence (LAPD). In the article, “Stop Gangs” it implies gangs are transforming, increasing, and settling themselves in our inner cities, or
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All through the US there are gangs. The problem being, that these gangs often become violent, but what causes this violence? The list is seemingly endless, though some of the most prominent include, gun availability, drugs, addition of youth gang members, past experiences, and underprivileged communities. The availability of firearms may very well provoke violence among gangs. Though many believe that the leniency of gun laws in the South are making it easier for gun trafficking, closer inspection
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When looking at the formation of gangs, Cloward and Ohlin place a large focus on juveniles having blocked legitimate opportunities leading them to experience a sense of strain. For Cloward and Ohlin, strain is defined as a feeling of injustice. Cloward and Ohlin argue that opportunities-such as education- are not equally distributed in the community. This implies that these juveniles have the “American Dream” mindset, however have no legitimate ways to achieve it because all of their opportunities
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The most popular category among all the categories of organized crime is “Transnational”. Transnational organized crime (TOC) involving groups or networks of individuals operating in more than one region of the world to plan and execute illegal business enterprises across the national borders. For the achievement of their goals, these criminal illegal groups use consistent violence and corruption. (TOC) is not static or immobile, it is an ever changing business, acclimatizing to market and creating
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