Gangs

Researchers frequently use 5 criteria to define a gang: (1) formal organization structure, (2) identifiable leadership, (3) identified with a territory, (4) recurrent interaction and (5) engaging in serious or violent behavior. Pirates were probably the first types of gang in history. To define a gang is a difficult task, but I will give you an idea of what a gang actually is. A gang is a loosely organized peer group of persons in a lower-, middle-, or upper class community …showed first 75 words of 2169 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2169 total…Commission in the mid 1960s: “White racism is essentially responsible for the explosive mixture, which has been accumulating in our cities since the end of World War 2. The ghettos too often mean men and women without jobs, families without men, and schools where children are processed instead of educated, until they return to the street-to crime, narcotics, to dependency on welfare, and to bitterness and resentment against society in general and White society in particular”.