Four Types Of Gangs

A gang is a group of friends or family with internal organization and attributable leadership. They usually ask for control over territory in a society, and engage either individually or mutually in violent or criminal behavior. Gangs are defined in four types by Mr. Chu in 1999, they are undesirable gang, bullying gang, street corner gang and triad gang respectively. The four types of gangs mentioning above involve a process of development. If they are not handled in a suitable way, they may commit some serious behaviors like delinquent and violent activities. Therefore, we should understand the characteristic of each of them in order to come up with peculiar solutions. In the following paragraphs, I am going to provide more details on these

Triad gang carries out a variety of criminal activities in a high frequency. For instance, money laundering, extortion, trafficking and prostitution. Similar to street corner gang, triad gang takes place in smuggling fake goods, but with a bigger diversity of the kinds of fake goods sold. For instance, triad gang sells video tape, music disc, computer software and also tangible goods such as watches, perfume, clothes and money. These activities regularly relate to the illegal business which under the table in a large extent. Therefore, in the process of doing these businesses, they may bully and threaten the others, or even commit blackmail and robbery. The level of violence of this type of gang is more likely controllable. It is because there should be a leader behind who will direct their behavior.

From the above kinds of gang, we can conclude a common feature among them, which is they will resort flight too. According to Jankowski, there are a few reasons behind. For example, some of them would like to promote their status and reputation, some bit down others as to relieve fears, some are frustrated by other gangs before so they revenge them in return, and to name but a few. Different gang has different reason to perform a

These settings are gangs in colleges, traditional gangs, street fighters and female gangs. Obviously, gangs in colleges should be students who are at studying stage. In order to displace their strength and power, they used to bully docile classmates at college. More than that, they will group together to take revenge to others if they are attacked by other classmates. In the assault, they will work out every possible style of bullying to hurt others severely. If this kind of gang cannot be stopped immediately, it presumably will create an opportunity to develop as a gigantic gang in school. Outside school, there is the existence of traditional gang. It belongs to the ideology of turf. Traditional gangs consistently occupy the entertainment venues and earn fringe benefit from protection money in these places. Sometimes they will also receive income from parking cars for guests. The third kind is street fighters. They act as the owner of the street, so if there is any stranger walking on the street, they will fight against them. Identical to traditional gangs, they will request shop owners for protection money. When owners refuse to do so, they will retaliate with extreme violence. Among these street fighters, normally there is a leader directing all gang members’ behavior. However, their violence are not always materialistic. Sometime it may just because of the loyalty to their “brothers”, so they resort the violence