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Both of these concerns present a validity and a legitimacy that would certainly temper the expected growth of such areas of the city, and, if left unchecked, have the potential to overwhelm the benign effects of reduced crime and social and salutary outreach benefits. The most successful way to deal with the former of these issues, is to implement a policy specific to the activity of minors. There is a significant amount of evidence that indicates that adolescents are those who are most at-risk for enlisting in street gangs and selling drugs, a fact that is readily corroborated by Bourgois' case study of Tito in which his subjected "immersed himself with all his energy into New York City's gang life in early adolescence" (24). Within these proposed areas in street drugs are legal, a simple remedy for the problems of adolescent interaction would involve developing a system for the…...

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Bourgois, P. (1997). "Overachievement in the Underground Economy: The Life Story of a Puerto Rican Stick-Up Artist in East Harlem." Free Inquiry. 25 (1) pp. 23-32.

Gilderbloom, J., Hanka, M., Lasley, C. (2008). "Amsterdam: Planning and Policy for the Ideal City?" sun.louisvill.edu. Retrieved from  http://sun.louisville.edu/pdfs/Amsterdam_Article.pdf 

King, R. (2003). "The Economics of Drug Selling: A Review of the Research." Prisonpolicy.org. Retrieved from  http://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/sp/5049.pdf 

Read, J. "Stringer Bell's Lament: Violence and Legitimacy in Contemporary Capitalism."

Gangs and gang-related activities are serious problems in American society. Books like Snitch, by Allison van Diepen, show that gangs are infiltrating almost every part of America and are leading to the proliferation of drugs, weapons, and human trafficking. However, gangs are not just talked about in novels like Snitch. Gangs are real, as I learned when interviewing a former gangbanger. Gangs have made such an impact on the people whose lives are directly affected by them, that poetry has been written about gangs. Many research organizations have studied gangs, showing that the problem needs to be addressed immediately. The problem is that gangs are as much of a symptom as they are a cause of problems. Gangs would not exist if there were more legitimate means to form communities and identities. In particular, gangs reflect underlying social injustice, related primarily to ethnicity and poverty. There are also legislative issues…...

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Works Cited

Carlie, Michael K. "Why Gangs Form." Into the Abyss. Retrieved online:  http://people.missouristate.edu/MichaelCarlie/what_i_learned_about/gangs/whyform/why_gangs_form.htm 

Hunt, Geoffrey P. And Laidler, Karen Joe. "Alcohol and Violence in the Lives of Gang Members." NIAAA. Retrieved online:  http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh25-1/66-71.htm 

Parker, Nick. Interview.

"A Timeline of Chicago's Gangs," (n..d). Retrieved online:  http://gangresearch.net/ChicagoGangs/tiimeline.html

Gangs
The problems that gangs cause to communities is enormous. And the resources that police departments and other law enforcements are required to use to monitor gangs is costly. Since gangs aren't going away any time soon the problems they create and the young lives they waste will be with society for the foreseeable future. This paper reviews the problem based on the government eb site, CrimeSolutions.gov.

Definition of Gangs and Gang Membership

The National Gang Center (NGC) explains that the most important aspect in terms of defining a gang lies within the realm of actually committing crimes. If the group is involved in criminality -- in rural or urban or suburban areas -- it doesn't matter what their leadership is in that particular group. It's also not important in the process of defining whether a group is truly a gang or not as to whether they display colors, have a specific name,…...

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Works Cited

National Youth Gang Survey Analysis. (2009). Age of Gang Members / Gender of Gang

Members. Retrieved November 24, 2010, from  http://www.nationalgangcenter.gov .

National Youth Gang Survey Analysis. (2009). Demographics / Age of Gang Members.

Retrieved November 24, 2011, from

Gangs in Prison
Although the United States prison system remains extremely dangerous due to overcrowding, guard and administrator abuse, and widespread detention and isolation practices that would be considered torture by the United Nations, they also serve as fertile breeding grounds for dangerous gangs, and in fact, American prisons have given rise to some of the most dangerous prison and street gangs of the twenty and twenty-first century. Of these, five stand out for their violence and resilience. The Aryan Brotherhood, the Black Guerilla Family, the Folk Nation, the Mexican Mafia, and MS-13 have all made a name for themselves in the prison system due to their violence, and although some have declined in scope and power as a result of concerted law enforcement efforts, all of these gangs remain a threat to security and safety, both for prison employees and the general public. By examining the foundations and spread of…...

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Allender, D.M. Department of Justice, FBI. (2001). FBI law enforcement bulletin: Gangs in middle america. Washington, DC: FBI.

Department of Justice, Criminal Division. (2011). Prison gangs. Department of Justice.

Retrieved from http://www.justice.gov/criminal/ocgs/gangs/prison.html

Department of Justice, FBI. (2008). The MS-13 threat. Washington, DC: FBI. Retrieved from  http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2008/january/ms13_011408

However, educate him or her to be self-confident as few children who do not react as the intimidate desires is not likely to be selected as a fatality. Work with the child's school to deal with the problem as some school employees may be able to offer some sensible recommendation to help the child plus keep records of the events so that you can be comprehensive in your negotiations with school staff about the child's experiences at school whilst it may facilitate to talk with the gang member or his/her parents keeping in mind to be careful while moving ahead. Speaking directly to the gang member like this may signal to him or her that the child is weak. Parents of a gang member may be unsuccessful to see something wrong with harassment associate it to positioning up for oneself. If the problem continues or rise even more than…...

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White House. Violence Prevention. Retrieved on December 2, 2007 at http://www.yic.gov/drugfree/prevention.html

Burnett, Gary - Walz, Garry. (July 1994). Gangs in Schools. Eric Digest 99. Retrieved on December 2, 2007 at  http://www.ericdigests.org/1995-1/gangs.htm 

National Youth Violence Presentation (July 1, 2007). Youth Gangs and Violence. Retrieved on December 2, 2007 at http://www.safeyouth.org/scripts/faq/youthgang.asp

Gangs
Since the 1980s, the media has become increasingly interested in urban street gangs, both in the entertainment industry, such as in records, movies, and television shows, and as a newsworthy matter in journalistic media. In both cases, media tend to portray gangs in an exceptionally stereotypical fashion. Ironically, however, the images presented in the news media and in the entertainment industry are seemingly mirror opposites. In the entertainment industry, gang life is glorified in movies and music, such as gangsta rap, in which gang members appears as iconoclastic heroes that are fighting to retain their individualistic way of doing things in the face of a world that has done nothing but try to crush them. Indeed, in many ways, this stereotype is identical to the image of the romantic hero. The news media, on the other hand, tends to demonize and villify gang members in its portrayals. Typically it depicts…...

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Herbert J. Gans. Deciding What's News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly

News, Newsweek, and Time. New York: Vintage Books, 1980.

Harvey Molotch. "The City as a Growth Machine." Retrieved at ar.com/face/molotch.html.http://nw-

Martin Sanchez-Jankowski. Islands in the Street: Gangs and Urban American Society. California: U. Cal Press, 1992.

Gangs in the Military
In the present era the gang problem is all encompassing and intimidating in a greater measure compared to any other period in history. In the bygone 20 years, gang associations have transcended all socioeconomic, ethnic and racial limits and currently pervade American society. Gangs by way of increased dreadfulness, felony and economic costs influence society. Now we are confronted with the outcome of the gang subculture's startling intensification over the past two decades: diminishing public safety, community image and quality of life. Gangs have the capability of upsetting military discipline and organization.

The attraction of a gang in military is being an element of some entity, security, social status, and an individual enjoying nice things in life, inclusive of wealth, authority and respect. Several gang members are very isolated being the nastiest ones. They are known as lieutenants, keeping themselves in the background always. These lieutenants wields the…...

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Jackson, Lonnie. (1998) "Gangbusters: Strategies for Prevention and Intervention." Lanham, MD: American Correctional Association.

Knox, G.M. (1993) "An Introduction to Gangs" Buchanan, MI: VandeVere Publishing, Ltd.

Mitchell, Miller, J; Rush, Jeffrey P. (1996) "Gangs: A Criminal Justice Approach" Cincinnati, OH: Anderson Publishing Company.

Sheley, JF; Zhang, J; Brody, CJ; Wright, JD. (1995) "Gang Organization, Gang Criminal Activity, and Individual Gang Members Criminal Behavior" Social Science Quarterly, Volume. 76; Issue 1, pp.52-68.

Gangs
Brotherton and Barrios' assessment of the role of women in Almighty King and Queen Nation (ALKQN), they describe the role of women as functional primarily for the image of the gang rather than their 'usefulness' as members of the gang. In ALKQN, Queens, term used for female members, are often useful for the gang by acting as accomplices in the drug trade, helping to hide and transport drugs and weapons for the gang. Furthermore, female members are functional because they provide a good image for the gang, giving a sense of legitimacy of the existence of the gang, for it helps out marginalized women create autonomy, identity, and at the same time, belongingness, as member of the gang.

It is evident that seeking cohesion in the community by joining gangs is also a way through which women can also assert their autonomy -- that is, by finally making their mark in…...

In the 1940s, the Klan began using bombings of their homes to scare blacks who had moved into the "wrong" neighborhood. In 1944, the IRS filed a lien against the Klan for over $600,000 and it was forced to disband. Its numbers by then had dwindled to about 10,000.
During the 1950s, to the present day, the Klan has disintegrated into separate small groups with different purposes depending on location. Their issues today have been updated to illegal immigration and same-sex marriage. Other Klan groups have become neo-Nazi skinheads. It is estimated that their total membership in 2008 is about 6,000.

Outlaws Motorcycle Gang

The Outlaws Motorcycle Gang, one of the biggest outlaw gangs in the country, formed in 1935 in McCook, Illinois. It now has over 200 "gangs" in several countries. Only men who own a specific-size motorcycle can join the club. Their main rival gang is Hell's Angels.

The gang is…...

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Kaplan, D., & Dubro, A. (2003). Yakuza: Japan's criminal underworld. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Knowgangs. (2008). The almighty latin kings nation. Retrieved June 27, 2009, from Knowgangs.com:  http://www.knowgangs.com/gang_resources/profiles/kings/ 

pbs.org. (n.d.). The Colombian cartels. Retrieved June 27, 2009, from pbs.org:  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/business/inside/colombian.html 

Simpson, C., & Pearlman, A. (2005). Inside the Crips: Life inside L.A.'s most notorious gang. New York: Macmillan.

" This was to show that Tweed was tough on crime. it's no wonder that Bill, the Butcher, leader of the Natives, is so violent. In the course of becoming a mentor to Amsterdam, he explains, "You stay alive with fear. Fear," he says, "preserves the order of things."
is gang wreaks most of its violence on the Irish whom they place at the bottom of the social scale along with blacks. Unlike Tweed who just wants their votes, Bill, the Butcher and his gang would like to kill all of them.

A great wave of Irish immigrants came to America during the 19th century. In the middle of that century a famine swept across Ireland, and Irish Catholics were severely impacted. In only three years, more than 500,000 people with nothing to eat died of starvation (Nickens, 2002). Those that lived migrated in large numbers. According to the movie, 15,000 a…...

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His gang wreaks most of its violence on the Irish whom they place at the bottom of the social scale along with blacks. Unlike Tweed who just wants their votes, Bill, the Butcher and his gang would like to kill all of them.

A great wave of Irish immigrants came to America during the 19th century. In the middle of that century a famine swept across Ireland, and Irish Catholics were severely impacted. In only three years, more than 500,000 people with nothing to eat died of starvation (Nickens, 2002). Those that lived migrated in large numbers. According to the movie, 15,000 a week landed in New York City. As the Butcher put it, "...they come off the boat crawling with lice and begging for soup." He referred to them as the "Mother whoring Irish niggers."

Irish Catholic immigrants often went to work on labor gangs that built canals, railroads, streets, sewers and other projects involving construction and were hated because they worked for lower wages. They were seen as "alien invaders." Irish Catholics who lived in urban tenement slums -- as they did in the film -- in areas of overcrowded, filthy squalor, where crime flourished and people struggled daily just to survive. Considerable prejudice was expressed against Irish immigrants. The Know Nothing Movement, for example, tried to oust Catholics from public office (Shannon, 2006). This was shown in the film when an Irishman was elected Sheriff and murdered

Gangs:  Membership Prevention intervention suppression There are various strategies that could be adopted in an attempt to reign in the gang membership problem. The strategies offered by youth.Gov, a U.S. government resource for the creation and maintenance of sound youth programs, would come in handy in this regard. The said strategies could be grouped into three main categories, i.e. prevention, intervention, and suppression responses. One strategy relates to strengthening families. It is important to note that “gang members often come from homes where they feel alienated or neglected” (Chaskin 97). It is this feeling and experience of neglect and/or alienation that motivates the said youths to seek solace in gang membership. Thus, strategies meant to strengthen families would be effective in seeking to prevent gang membership. Such strategies could be inclusive of sensitizing families on the various conflict resolution strategies they could pursue in case of misunderstandings, ensuring that there are community…...

Gangs are a reality in most cities and neighborhoods. To a large extent, gangs thrive on membership – effectively meaning that they strive to recruit new members and ensure that those within the ‘family’ stay. Towards this end, gangs have been known to prey on various targets – including second-generation immigrants and high school/college students - in an attempt to soar their membership and protect certain interests. New York City has a rich history of gang activity. This text concerns itself with gang activity within New York City. In so doing, it will not only give a concise description of the origin of gang activity in the city, but also highlight key facts relating to gangs in the city. Discussion
From the onset, it is important to note that today, gangs can be found in almost all five boroughs of the city. In seeking to chart gang activity in New York, it…...

The Concept of Gang DisciplineAbstractStudies reveal that gang crime has been the leading cause of gang discipline as illegal and non-political violence cases increased drastically. The gangs execute the violence against law enforcement officers, civilians, and the military. Violence has become a massive challenge throughout history because gang crime is carried out at all organizational levels worldwide. The connection between and discipline and gang crime intensified social violence acts despite all effort to put out current societys behaviors. This paper answers the concept of gang discipline and its use within the gang culture by analyzing the field against gang crime. Moreover, it highlights the different techniques used to curb gangs worldwide. The minimization sees the primary contribution of gang discipline of extreme gang violence around the world. This paper will also talk about the relationship between gang culture and gang discipline. Gang discipline is used in all dimensions to put…...

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Curry, G. D., & Spergel, I. A. (1992). Gang involvement and delinquency among Hispanic and African-American adolescent males. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 29(3), 273-291.

Decker, S. H. (2001). The impact of organizational features on gang activities and relationships. In The Eurogang Paradox (pp. 21-39). Springer, Dordrecht.

Goldman, L., Giles, H., & Hogg, M. A. (2014). Going to extremes: Social identity and communication processes associated with gang membership. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 17(6), 813-832.

Gangs Introduction
Gangs in America have formed the subject of a large number of research works, thereby becoming a growth sector (Sanchez-Jankowski, 2003). The definition of the term ‘gangs’ is: an ongoing informal or formal group, party, or alliance of at least three individuals whose primary activities include perpetrating at least one of the crimes listed below: 1) attacking using a lethal weapon, 2) murder, 3) burglary, 4) selling or holding in possession for production, selling, offering for sale, transporting, or offering to produce controlled substances, 5) arson, 6) shooting at any occupied automobile or inhabited house, 7) intimidating victims and witnesses, and 8) carrying out a grand robbery of a vehicle, vessel, or trailer, in addition to sharing a common sign, symbol, or name, whose members have separately or, as a group, previously or currently participated in some pattern of hang crime (California Department of Justice, 1993).
Classification of Gangs
Depending on structural…...

Evaluation of G.R.E.A.T.: A School-Based Gang Prevention ProgramBackgroundGang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) is different from typical gang-reduction approaches. Typical programs are aimed at active gang members, with the majority focusing on youths in danger of entering gangs. In contrast, the G.R.E.A.T. curriculum is taught to entire classes without forecasting which pupils are most likely to join a gang (Esbensen, 2004). The GREAT program is designed for middle school kids and aims to; reduce gang involvement and delinquent conduct teach them the consequences of gang membership assist them in forming constructive relationships with law enforcement.These three goals are addressed in a 9-hour curriculum presented by school uniformed law enforcement officials. Students are taught how to set constructive goals, resist negative pressures, solve problems, and comprehend how gangs affect their lives.Reasons for the evaluationAccording to experts and program administrators, the program has achieved modest positive results (Peterson & Esbensen, 2004). Given…...

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Esbensen, F. A. (2004). Evaluating GREAT: A school-based gang prevention program. U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice.

Goldstein, H. (1990). Excellence in problem-oriented policing. In Police Executive Research Forum.

Gorman, K., & Johnson, D. E. (2013). Quantitative analysis. The Oxford handbook of sociolinguistics, 214-240.

Certainly! Here are some potential essay topics related to gangs:

1. The impact of gangs on communities and neighborhoods
2. The role of social media in gang recruitment and communication
3. The relationship between poverty and gang involvement
4. The effectiveness of gang prevention programs and initiatives
5. The connection between drugs and gang activity
6. The influence of music and pop culture on gang behavior
7. The evolution of gang culture and symbols
8. The portrayal of gangs in the media and pop culture
9. The experiences of former gang members and their efforts to leave the gang lifestyle
10. The intersectionality of race, class, and gender in gang....

## Navigating the Labyrinth of Gang-Related Essay Topics

Investigating gang-related topics for an essay can be an intricate and illuminating endeavor, allowing you to delve into the complexities of this societal phenomenon. From the historical origins of gangs to their impact on communities and potential solutions, there is a multitude of angles to explore. Let's embark on a journey through ten potential essay topics, each offering a unique perspective on the multifaceted world of gangs:

### 1. The Genesis of Gangs: A Historical Retrospection

Immerse yourself in the historical backdrop of gangs, tracing their origins and evolution across different epochs and geographical regions.....

S.E. Hinton's extended narrative in "The Outsiders" challenges traditional societal norms and perceptions of teenage gang culture by humanizing the characters and showing the complexities and struggles they face. Instead of portraying the gang members as one-dimensional delinquents, Hinton delves deep into their emotions, motivations, and relationships, highlighting the importance of loyalty, friendship, and family.

By portraying the gang members as individuals with their own unique personalities, dreams, and fears, Hinton challenges the stereotype that all gang members are inherently bad or criminal. She also explores the social and economic factors that push teens into joining gangs, shedding light on the....

1. The existence and integration of cults and gangs in society are complex phenomena that stem from various factors. These groups often form as a result of individuals feeling marginalized, disenfranchised, or disconnected from mainstream society. Cults may offer a sense of belonging, purpose, and community to their members, while gangs may provide protection, support, or a source of income. In some cases, these groups can also be driven by ideologies, beliefs, or networks that prioritize loyalty and obedience above all else. Understanding the driving forces behind the presence of cults and gangs in society is crucial for addressing the....