Gangs in the United States

Gang violence has grown to be a great problem in El Salvador in the last 30 years. Gangs have grown into large, complex organized crime units; the two largest gangs, MS13 (also known as Mara Salvatrucha 13) and Barrio18 (also known as Calle18), now encompass large parts of Central America. Both gangs rely heavily on local drug-peddling, which drives most of the general gang violence. The desire for control over certain areas had forged a fierce rivalry, in which civilians are often endangered when

term “gang” was associated with groups in socially disorganized and deteriorated inner-city neighborhoods: It was applied to juveniles who engaged in a variety of delinquencies, ranging from truancy, street brawls, and beer running to race riots, robberies, and other serious crimes (Regoli, Hewitt, DeLisi, 2011). There were several gangs within the United States, which included street gangs, prison gangs, motorcycle gangs, and organized crime gangs that still exist today. The word “gang” is derived

The North Carolina Governor’s crime commission states that there are 1,446 gangs across the state with a total of 19,000 members. The average age of gang membership is 15 years old (Our Initiatives-Gang Prevention). In the 1980’s national gangs began to shift from just the bad street type local criminals to taking on public arrangements involved with drug trafficking and other illegal activities. As there power and membership increased gangs were being recognized in locations outside of their regular

one of busiest waterways in the United States, shipping iron and other goods to and from Canada. Only 100 years ago, those waterways were being used to transport illegal liquor from Canada to the Unites States (“Rum-running in Windsor.”). The men to pick it up were called the Purple Gang. The Purple Gang was a mainly Jewish, well established group of criminals, that by the late 1920s and controlled the city's drug trade, liquor, vice, and gambling (“The Purple Gang.”). The Cleaners and Dyers War

Case 7 members of the “Click Clack Gang” have been apprehended for a number of crimes including “conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine, drug possession, and illegal possession of firearms” (United States Attorney’s Office). Each of these seven members has a different criminal background, one in particular is a convicted felon, and will receive harsher punishment for firearm possession (United States Attorney’s Office). “During the investigation, officers recovered more than 20 firearms, over 40

Table of Contents Current Situation in the United States 4 Drug Wars: Emphasis in Immigration 4 Human Trafficking 5 Gangs 6 Conclusion 7 Works Cited 7 Current Situation in the United States According to the independent Center for Immigration Studies, in January 2000 there were 7 million illegal aliens living in the United States and the center estimated that number to grow by half a million a year (Peak, 2009, pg. 245). Based on this fact, the reality is that the minority has turn into

in El Salvador carried on from 1980 through 1992, thousands migrated into the United States in search of better living conditions. Many of the Salvadorian families established themselves amongst Latino Neighborhoods, especially in the Los Angeles area. Salvadorians were essentially at the bottom of the food chain were they found discrimination and the struggle of being in a foreign country. As a result, they created gangs as self defense groups for the Latino community, many used the phrase, “Vivo

unknown to the world. They can be found in any corner of the world and any ethnic/racial background. Gangs have been around since humans learned how to get into organized groups. This was about around the time of the middle ages. In fact, the first recorded history of such gangs was in the city of London (Sheldon., Tracy and Brown, 1996). For America, it was not until the early 1800s when juvenile gangs became a problem (Sheldon., Tracy and Brown, 1996). This being due to the social and economic problems

The are about 2.3 million prisons in the united states (Prison Policy) and all of them have the same issues. There are 2,220,300 adults in the state and federal level of prisons( Bureau of Statistics).One of the major conflicts that prisons have aside from the rapes, diseases and drugs are gangs. The number one things that all 2.3 million prisons in the united states all have in common is gangs no matter what states you go to gangs are always a part of the community. Factors like drugs and rape

Health Issues-approaches Adolescences that become gang members are most likely to become involve in crimes than adolescences that are not gang members. Therefore, programs in the United States are created in the United States to prevent African Americans and other ethnicities from joining gangs. One of the programs that currently exist to prevent African Americans adolescences and other adolescences from other ethnicities from joining gangs is called Gang Resistance and Education Program. According to