How youth gangs have changed in recent
decades:
The image of young gangs in recent decades is
popularly seems to be formally organized.
The old and traditional youth gang structure of post
years are declining at high rate. From some of prisons
recent statistics, the growth of youth gangs is much
corrected and developed.
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How youth gangs have changed in recent decades:
At different studied scenarios, the youth
gangs grow during the time of conflicts and
decline at the time of peaceful events. Most
of youth gangs have high ratio of adult
members and this can symbolize how the
youth gangs are declining. They also have
developed networks like any other
cooperation
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How youth gangs have changed in recent decades:
Some of this is also seen into some extend evolving from
relatively disorganized criminal street to formal criminal
corporation.
Rather than old traditional organized gang groups, the
recent groups seems to be declining because of agegraded generally consisting of characteristics of
geographical based and less territorial than old days.
This is due to changes in leadership and hardcore
members in the society.
This development is the adults gangs return to the
communities they offer vigor to the youth gangs.
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The statistics of local gangs in the United States and in your
area.
According to the recent statistics in
United States more than 2.2% of the
gang groups get involved in threat
incidences.
• 2.4 involved in threat incidences
and drug trafficking and use.
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The statistics of local gangs in the United States and in your
area.
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3500 states and local enforcement units show aspects
of high drug threats, drug trafficking and use.
From the local view, street gangs are criminal
organizational which are operating throughout the
United States.
Across 7.4 million streets in United States, there are
gangs from prisons made of 33000 members which
criminally active.
Locally, the 8000 gangs from 700 distinct gang groups
have been arrested by immigration agencies
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Important facts about the structure of youth gang groups
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They are ethical and racial composite: this means they
are complex to control and decline since the may
break to return to their different native territorials.
Begin in small strictures with ill-defined roles in the
community that can be cited by the enforcement
agencies.
Their residential territories are easily defined and can
be well accessed like hotel based and marketing
territorials.
They have organized cooperation like any other
organization. A gang organization stay focused and
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Stages of gang development in communities
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Primary stage-At this stage the gang appear
irregularly in the community. This is most social
group made up of young ones who copy the real
gang activities and habits. This gives them ability to
acquire new and advanced skills to develop to new
level of gangster life.
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Stages of gang development in communities
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Secondary stage- Local youths imitate gangs’ real life
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Advanced stage- This is the last stage of the gang
style and now they start appearing regularly in the
community. They also become absolutely antisocial and
against each other. This threats the community as the gang
at this stage may start possessing weapons and get in-touch
with law enforcement.
growth and it involves the kid from the community joining
the gang leadership. The organizational relationship with
gangs succeeds with all other members in the community.
The gang becomes opposition to each other and their
violence may affect innocent members of the society. Since
some members definitely will spent sometimes in jail for
crime, this may affect as precursor as victim.
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What communities (including police) can do to
prevent and control gangs.
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Generally, everyone in the community should understand the
role of the child development in the society.
Community should ensure good protection of child’s
environment to enhance a sound life development circle.
The child must be protected from violence and conflict
exposures in the community and schooling vicinity.
The law enforcement gears like police are entitled to perform
the child community policing in conjunction with other
attaches of child protection society.
A status of a child is controlled to ensure respect and freedom
to create a legal independent prestige.
The socio-cultural activities such as traditional norms,
outlaw cultured issues and traditional value in the society,
may be sorted to drain the inhuman practices.
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What communities (including police) can do to prevent
and control gangs.
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This may form credible cognitive development in a life
circle of a child thus preventing a kid from joining a gang
group.
The communal relationship should be highly rated to
avoid child marginalization, rejection and ignorant.
A well-integrated society can de- nurture any upcoming
peer gang under leadership of law enforcement units and
these can decline kids from joining gang groups.
At large grounds, the government administration should
allocate state budget on criminal control and police
service in order to address the early childhood care.
This will act as early prevention key to a child from
joining a youth gang.
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