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Gangs
Title: Gangs
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 1557 | Pages: 6.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Gangs
Gangs
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 of human beings' …showed first 75 words of 1557 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1557 total…to form organizations like the
"Guardian Angels" a gang-like group that makes life very tough
for street gangs that are breaking laws.
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.
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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