Delinquency In Juvenile Gangs

Culture is the feature and knowledge of a distinct people. A pattern of shared values, norms, language, traditions, symbols and their meanings that are passed from one generation to the next. Every culture has norms that establish expectations about what types of behaviors are appropriate for a particular individual in certain social situations. Deviance is an action or behavior that violates those social norms including formally-enacted rules or laws. Viewing deviance as a violation of social norms, sociologists have characterized it as any thoughts, feelings, or actions that members of a social group judge to be a violation of their values or laws (Wikipedia 2017). One kind of deviance is crime, which may be punished by the state with sanctions when a legal norm has been violated. Sanctions are
Similarities in the basic characteristics of a juvenile group or gang behavior are found in almost every class and cultural context. (Ludovici 1947). Those most likely to participate in delinquent activities are members of gangs. Across the globe, the phenomenon of juvenile gangs has become an important and sensitive public issue. The image of gangs has become more common world wide because of globalization these developments reveal tight connections with a number of factors individual, family, school, peer and community, as well as film, tv, popular culture, and music. Now the concern acroos the world is how to address these issues. Social control refers to ways in which society tries to prevent and sanction behaviors that violates norms. Though almost all countries do have a separate system for young offenders America has one of the most extreme and harsh criminal justice systems in the world, among developed nations. Many in the field of sociology are working towards changing a juvenile justice system that seemingly looks at just the crime committed and does not look at all the