¶ … Gang Members Come From Unstable Households? There exists a wide range of reasons as to why individuals join gangs. Reasons in this case could include but are not limited to the need for protection, economic gain, peer pressure as well as familial instability. Ritter and Lampkin (2012) note that people enlist as gang members for different reasons "but it is usually because the gang offers something the individual is lacking." According to the authors, young adults could end up enlisting as gang members "because they lack the feeling of belonging to a group or do not feel loved because of their unstable home life" (Ritter and Lampkin, 2012). In that regard, such individuals see the gang as a second home where they can freely interact with other members of the gang. Further, when it comes to broken homes, the authors in this case note that absentia parents (in most cases the father) also contribute towards youth gang membership. In such a case, enlisting for gang membership may in one way or the other "increase access to multiple father figures" perhaps for those who are raised in broken unstable families (Ritter and Lampkin, 2012). Most gang members could also have been raised in an unstable familial setting in which case they were deprived of the attention they deserved. Ritter and Lampkin (2012) are of the opinion that such individuals may not have received the right dose of attention as a result of a variety of reasons including but not limited to a history of substance abuse...
All these can be taken to be indicators of instability within a given household. Hence in such a case, young adults may view gang membership as their only way of obtaining a sense of belonging.
Gun Ownership and Gun Control In American culture today, guns are worshiped. Children play with toy guns, television and film glorify gun violence, teenagers show off guns to one another in order to get respect, and powerful lobbyist groups keep these weapons legal and accessible. There's something wrong with this picture. There's something wrong with a culture that believes guns are more important than feeding the hungry or sheltering the homeless.
Studies indicate that "... A higher than average incidence of delinquency occurs among youngsters of the poorest social standing and with the lowest performance at school..." (Jarvelin et al., 1994, p. 230) Similarly, studies also note that neighborhood influences on development was determinant on factors such as "...collective socialization, peer-group influence, and institutional capacity." (Sampson, Morenoff & Gannon-Rowley, 2002. p 443) Generally studies like the above present a negative picture of
Relevance Juvenile offenders and reoffenders are an important problem facing the United States criminal justice system. For more than one hundred years, states held the belief that the juvenile justice system acted as a vehicle to safeguard the public via offering a structure that enables the rehabilitation of children growing into adulthood. States identified the difference of children committing crimes versus adult offenders (Loeber & Farrington, 2012). For example, the states
Dugan: Should be on its own page. Juvenile recidivism is a prevalent problem in the criminal justice system. Tackling reoffending remains a complex task requiring several strategies and aims. It involves research, acknowledgement of causes, factors, exploration, and evaluation of subgroups to generate long-term, positive changes in the lives of juvenile offenders. From gang violence to Interactive, Constructive, Active, and Passive (ICAP), researchers discover some of the reasons why juveniles
Based on statistics, nearly one million eighth graders admit getting drunk and another 1.2 million twelfth graders are considered binge drinkers. Heroin use by young adults has doubled from 1991 to 1996 and even teenage compulsive gambling is on the rise (http://www.einstein.edu/e3front.dll?durki=8576,2004). Youth Gangs and Violence - The Starting Point It should be noted that violence started from the family affecting the whole society. What an individual has for a family, what
Crime Prevention PlanIntroductionThe city of Cincinnati, OH, is seeing an increase of violent crime and gun shootings in the Over-the-Rhine (OTR) community. Since 2000, OTR has been a major source of frustration for the city: it is on the northern side of the city�s business district where residences and small business owners dwell together in the city�s oldest neighborhood. For decades OTR housed the city�s poorest residents, but since 2000
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