Why juveniles join gangs? By: Moni Williams Abstract Juveniles sometimes have trouble finding who they are where they belong in the world. Juveniles join gangs for a number of reasons. All juveniles have their own reasons for joining a gang. Juveniles look for people and groups of people who same their same morals and values of life.
Kody’s life would be greatly affected by the outnumbering gangs growing around the area where he lived. At a young age Kody had a big decision to make concerning whether he wanted to live a life of a gang member or live a life of a civilian. At the age of eleven Kody, also known as Monster Kody, new that he wanted to live the ghetto life of a gang member. Theories of delinquency attempt to provide an explanation and reason as to why the juvenile engages in delinquent acts. This paper attempts to explain the reasons behind Kody Scott’s delinquent behavior and why he decided to live the life of a gangster.
It allows the police departments to take proactive law enforcement action normally before the gang gets an organized structure. The gang can or may range from a loose knit group of individuals who hang around together and commit crimes together, to a formal organization with a leader or ruling council, gang colors, gang identifiers could be such as tattoos, and a gang name. In the textbook on page 145, “Islands in the Street: Urban Gangs in the United States, it says that the functions that gangs fulfill or motives for joining a gang is to possible to escape a broken home, but many members that join still interact with their families. So that must not be the only reason in some cases of why people join gangs. It also say its because of money, drugs, woman, to commit a crime, and for protection because its better than the police.
Most of the time they alienate themselves from the rest of the world. Gang members lack the social skills to make their peer relationships work. 5. Can gangs be controlled without changing the economic opportunity structure of society? I think that probably not.
My personal believe from the African American perspective is that some people may have grown up around a life of crime where parents are gang members or they may think it is cool to be in gangs or being in a gang provides protection. Protection from what? Not exactly sure, but being in a gang gives many a false sense of belonging. Just like African Americans, Latinos are also known for joining gangs. For many, to fit in or be accepted in their “hood” could mean living a life of crime because that is the only way they know to survive.
Which comes in, why kids shouldn’t be try as an adult. Most of us teens act pretty much like kids when were still 15-17 years old. In Adam Liptak’s article “Supreme Court to Rule on Executing Young Killers” published in The New York Times quotes “And jurors may not necessarily accept expert testimony concerning recent research showing that the adolescent brain is not fully developed”. Jurors have to accept the fact that teens brains aren’t develop and still may act like little kids. Also the fact that teens are so rough towards one another there brains aren’t thinking on what can happen if there physical towards people violently.
I would have encourage gang members to join sports clubs, provided by the city, and I would have helped them transition out of gangs and into one team. I would have taken the time to educate them, plus give them a purpose in life, such as work as well as other activities. Furthermore the police definition of a gang is a group of individuals juvenile and/or adult, who associate on a continuous basis, from an allegiance for a common purpose, and are involved in delinquent of criminal activities. It allows the police departments to take proactive law enforcement action normally before the gang gets an organized structure. The gang can or may range from a loose knit group of individuals who hang around together and commit crimes together, to a
WP2 Synthesis 7/6/2012 Gangs Gangs in the world today have been a major issue to all governments. Gangs will continue to be a problem in our world today because of an informal market, poverty and the youth today. Danny Malec wrote a review on Transforming Latino Gang Violence in the United States. In this article he believes and understands that due to the United States having an informal market, seduces the youth today by replacing family role models with gang members. Grossman agrees with Malec’s views, while taking a media strong stand point on this issue.
For example, some had clear wishes to become positive mentors for younger gang members still on the streets, to help them out of gang culture. The second way participants could talk about maturing was the role of a new focus or meaning in new life. Often this was a new relationship, such as becoming a father. There was a sense of having something else to live for, suggesting that gang life was all they had prior to becoming a father. Some participants also conveyed that the desire to be a good role model for their child was motivation enough to cease criminal activity.
Is Crime Inherited Sarah Black Everest University [ February 18, 2012 ] ABSTRACT This paper serves as information about children who have parents as criminals. In detail, it discusses rather or not crime is inherited. It also suggests what should be done for children who have criminals as parents if crime is or can be inherited. Is Crime Inherited Crime is a broad subject when it comes to understanding the causes. Criminologists have long since tried to determine the causes of crime and though many theories have been implemented; no one theory can determine all crime.