Gang Violence In America
Title: Gang Violence In America
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Gang Violence In America
Gang Violence In Society:
Gangs are a violent reality that people have to deal with
in today's cities. What has made these groups come about?
Why do kids feel that being in a gang is both an acceptable and
prestigious way to live? The long range answer to these
questions can only be speculated upon, but in the short term
the answers are much easier to find. On the surface, gangs
are a direct result …
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showed last 75 words of 1561 total…form organizations like the "Guardian Angels" a gang-like
group that makes life very tough for street gangs that are
breaking laws.
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Bibliography
Margot Webb, Coping with Street Gangs. Rosen Publishing Group,
New York, 1990.
William Foote Whyte, Street Corner Society. University of
Chicago, Chicago, 1955.
Peter Carroll, South-Central. Hoyte and Williams, L. A., 1987.
Footnotes
1 Marshall B. Clinard, Sociology of Deviant Behavior. University
of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, 1963, Page 179.
2 Merton Nisbet, Contempory Social Problems. Harcourt, Brace &
World, New York, 1971, Page 588.
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