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 andprestigious way to live? The long range answer to these questions can only be speculated upon, but in the shortterm the answers are much easier to find. On the surface, gangs are a direct result of human beings' personal wants andpeer …showed first 75 words of 1482 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1482 total…are breaking laws. THE END by Anh Phu Bibliography Margot Webb, Coping with Street Gangs. Rosen Publishing Group, NewYork, 1990. William Foote Whyte, Street Corner Society. University of Chicago,Chicago, 1955. Peter Carroll, South- Central. Hoyte and Williams, L. A., 1987. 1 Marshall B. Clinard, Sociology of Deviant Behavior. University ofWisconsin, Wisconsin, 1963, Page 179. 2 Merton Nisbet, Contempory Social Problems. Harcourt, Brace &World, New York, 1971, Page 588. America On Line, search egines for Lycos , Web Crawler, Yahoo , for internet topics to sites