Why People Join Gangs
More and more teens join gangs to feel that sense of family that might be absent in their life. Most teens tend to lack the attention that they feel that is needed and deserve but don’t always get from the preserved family environment that is seen regularly on television. Therefore causes the teen to feel like the parent is not being given the love and attention that is shown on the television. As these feelings keep getting increasingly worse the teen starts to indulge, get involved with illegal things such as theft murder and sealing of a controlled substance. (Richards, 2014) These children don’t have the normal family life that other adolescents have experienced.
Most of the time the child suffers due to a divorce. As Helen Keller wrote …show more content…
The gangs take the young high risk adolescences in and take care of them and raise them in the way of a gang life. “The reason young people join gangs because they feel left out. They need protection.” (NEWS, 2006)
Although they are taking care of the teen they mode them in to their image of how they want them to do and how they want them to act and live their life. Which causes the teen to have this gang mentality and that’s all that they end up knowing throughout their whole life. Also for them to die for the gang because the gang means that much to them at that point that the teen has been raised by the gang and that’s all that they have been taught thus far in their lives.
Teens more often than not join gangs to feel that they are being protected. Gangs or a group of people that commit organized crime together tend to theorize or bully a community by making mischief and anybody can and in most cases are liable targets. So thus the reason that gang members call it a brother hood instead of a gang because they offer protection. As the LAPD stated “Many members join because they live in the gang area and are, therefore, subject to violence by rival gangs. Joining guarantees support in case of attack and retaliation for
Most of the time the child suffers due to a divorce. As Helen Keller wrote …show more content…
The gangs take the young high risk adolescences in and take care of them and raise them in the way of a gang life. “The reason young people join gangs because they feel left out. They need protection.” (NEWS, 2006)
Although they are taking care of the teen they mode them in to their image of how they want them to do and how they want them to act and live their life. Which causes the teen to have this gang mentality and that’s all that they end up knowing throughout their whole life. Also for them to die for the gang because the gang means that much to them at that point that the teen has been raised by the gang and that’s all that they have been taught thus far in their lives.
Teens more often than not join gangs to feel that they are being protected. Gangs or a group of people that commit organized crime together tend to theorize or bully a community by making mischief and anybody can and in most cases are liable targets. So thus the reason that gang members call it a brother hood instead of a gang because they offer protection. As the LAPD stated “Many members join because they live in the gang area and are, therefore, subject to violence by rival gangs. Joining guarantees support in case of attack and retaliation for