Organized Crime Groups And Gangs Research Paper

Modern Organized Crime Groups and Gangs The Almighty Vice Lord Nation is the second largest, and one of the oldest street gangs in Chicago. The gang has more than 30,000 African America members. The gang criminal activities consist of drug trafficking, robbery, fraud, money laundering, extortion, and murder. The gang was founded by juveniles that was incarcerated in the Illinois State Training School for Boys. When the boys was released from the training school they were recruited into the gang. The gang is noted for their violent behavior. In 1960, Willie Lloyd joined the gang and became the leader of the group. He remained their leader while incarcerated for a murder of a police officer. While under Lloyd leadership there were thousands
The gang consist of 20, 000 to 40,000 mostly Hispanic members and are located in Chicago, New York City, and other cities throughout the United States. The gang was initially form by Puerto Rican males but now consist of mostly Mexicans. The gang activities consist of racketeering, battery arms, and drug trafficking, extortion, identity document forgery, robbery and murder. The organization structure consist of different tribes and chapter across the country. This gang when compared to other street gangs are said to be no comparison to the organization of the Latin Kings ("Latin Kings. ", ). The Latin Kings and Almighty Vice Lord Nation gangs differ from contemporary youth gangs in that the youth gangs are not as organized. The youth gangs are juveniles who has for the most parts been ousted from their family, and have joined together with other youths to make a family on their own. They do illegal things like steal cars, monies, and sell drugs to support themselves. The structure of youth gangs could be that the one who started the game or the oldest is in charge and most of the members have to do an initiation to become a
Gang membership could be attracted because it gives the youth a sense of prestige or status among friends. According to Rochester study, Thornberry (1998) states the most important community risk factor is the level of social integration (attachment) is low. Those youth who grow in social disorganized neighborhoods who do poorly in school and associate himself with delinquent peers are more prone to become gang members. In conclusion, there are members added to crime groups everyday and without a solution it will be never-ending. A solution to help control local gangs is to set up something like a neighborhood watch. Most neighborhood watch are looking out for each other to keep their neighborhoods safe. This would consider the same idea except go a step farther to report youths that are hanging around, find out who they are and who their parents are. This will be a solution to controlling local gang