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    Street Gangs

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    Gangs A gang is a group of recurrently associating individuals or close friends 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. When a new member joins the gang he or she must go through an initiation‚ the most common initiation is “jumping in” or getting beaten by all the gang members and/or committing acts of theft or violence

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    Criminology 21 26/11/12 Andrew Quejano Prof. Crystal Rodriguez Title: The Origin of Asian and Chinese Gangs in Chicago ’s Chinatown Attention Getter: “I shall walk into a path with no return‚ with full of rules to die”‚ 我將走入道路沒有回歸以充分規則死 * Reveal Topic: I will tell you some important factors about the Triads‚ I would explain what are they? Brief history about Chicago’s Chinatown‚ types of crimes committed

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    Personal Criminological Theory AJS 542 Personal Criminological Theory Crime is bad behavior displayed by citizens who reject societal norms and instead chose to commit crime. However‚ there are many types of theories of why crime occurs the most prevalent cause for crime involves the social environment of the criminal offender. Psychological theories discusses that these interruptions in childhood development is the cause for crime but because the delays developmental is the effect of the

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    Gang and Offenders

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    Gangs Data on Gangs How do you know who is a gang member? - What is a gang? group of members that have a common deviant values group of members that engage in delinquency for self gains though‚ difficult to defining what is a gang because peer groups in general are central to youthful activities people hang out in groups common feature to see adolescent to engage in groups hence‚ a gang comprise primarily young males‚ engage in behaviour from outright criminality to graffiti. Females

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    Gang Culture

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    violence‚ and the culture of gangs. Most of them focused on adolescence and creating a way to view how violence‚ defining of ethnicity‚ and other environmental forces cause the gang culture. In the journal Ethnic Identity and Offending Trajectories Among Mexican American Juvenile Offenders: Gang Membership and Psychological Maturity‚ George P. Knight et al. constructed a way to identify and be able to measure the relationship between ethnic identity and antisocial behavior. Their study group was a group

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    Prison Gangs

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    Most prison gangs do more than offer simple protection for their members. Most often‚ prisons gangs are responsible for any drug‚ tobacco or alcohol handling inside correctional facilities (Garbarino 50). Furthermore‚ many prison gangs involve themselves in prostitution‚ assaults‚ kidnappings and murders. Prison gangs often seek to intimidate the other inmates‚ pressuring them to relinquish their food and other resources (Garbarino 59). Also‚ prison gangs often exercise a large degree

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    THE IMPACT OF PHYSICAL APPEARANCE TO THE BEHAVIOR AND PERSPECTIVE OF AN INDIVIDUAL A Research Paper Presented to The Department of Psychology Institute of Arts and Sciences Far Eastern University Manila In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Course ENG 2 - Intermediate Communication Arts and Skills Rocel Armine M. De Mesa Honey Lou G. Del Rosario September 2012 Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION A. Background of the Study Physical appearance is something that all people

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    Youth Gangs

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    Our community is not the only community currently having gang problems. Many small towns and rural areas are experiencing gang problems for the first time. In small communities‚ citizens jump to the mistaken conclusion that gangs are present. This occurs because small groups of delinquents are common‚ even in the smallest rural communities. Juveniles enjoy hanging out together‚ and the reality is that juvenile delinquency is often committed in groups. The visibility of these groups‚ hanging out in

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    Gang Violence

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    effects of Gang Violence Gangs have been around since the beginning of time. Humans have always banded together for mutual protection and support - and to better dominate others. Gangs have always provided a way for people to more effectively get what they want‚ especially if it comes to force. And weaker members of society gravitate toward gangs that they feel can offer a sense of community and protection from others. But today were going to reflect on the effects of the most modern gangs. I watched

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    Gangs And Crime

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    were Gangs and Social Change by Martin Sanchez-Jankowski and The Economic of Crime by Gary S. Becker. Furthermore‚ after reading the article by Jankowski I learned that many researchers had trouble defining or being able to distinguish gang related associations to groups or individuals that were not in a “gang.” Many individuals have the belief that a a gang is having two or more individuals in a group. If the group exceeds to two or more people‚ than supposedly that would be considered a gang. Now

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