ipl-logo

Gang Violence: Conflict Delinquent Subculture

249 Words1 Page

The theory that best support gang violence is the conflict delinquent subculture. Conflict delinquent subculture is a subculture in which youth oppose the mainstream through violence, underground economies and/or gang activity because of a lack of opportunities to succeed. Majority gangs are in low class neighborhoods where the kids there don’t have much offered to them. These adolescents are usually not completely loved and cared for within their households so they turn to the streets for “love” in gangs. These juveniles believe that once they gain a gang their going to be protected at all times by any counts, they mistake this for love. These juveniles parents are usually on drugs, in jail, gang members, or just not able to control them.

Show More
Related

  • Gangs And Gang Involvement By Beth Bjerregaard

    551 Words  | 3 Pages

    This research was to point out three main ideas, drugs, gang relationships and violence. Drugs have been sold and used in gangs for years now. Gang relationships aren't much different from regular relationships only thing different is their is rules and boundary you can't cross. Gang members have always used violence as a way to solve problems.

    Read More

  • What Is Thornberry's Involvement In Youth Gangs?

    430 Words  | 2 Pages

    Studies show that youth have a higher rate of serious and violent offending while they are actively taking part in the gang than before or after gang affiliation. Thornberry suggest that the Facilitation effect on gang membership is a model that can be used to study this relationship between gang involvement and crime. He suggests that the norms and the group processes of the gang are thought to facilitate involvement in delinquency and violence. For example, Esbensen and Huizinga (1996) reported that “Prevalence rates are highest during the gang member’s years of actual membership.” This finding reinforce the model Thornberry provided earlier in the reading; that gang members take part in crimes because of the norms and lifestyle put in place by the

    Read More

  • Analyse The Role Of Deviance In Gang Organizations

    955 Words  | 4 Pages

    The gangs have gang wars in which they willing kill other people to protect their territory that they deem as being their

    Read More

  • The Autobiography Of An L. A Gang Member Sparknotes

    1141 Words  | 5 Pages

    Utilizing research findings and realistic experiences, Shakur, Howell, and Griffiths disprove myths about gangs, justify the reasons for young people being recruited because of their desire to be understood by others similar to them, and girls integrating themselves into the groups from their relationships with members. Howell and Griffiths managed to explain the principles behind gangs and their members' lifestyles, while Shakur provided real gangster experiences as supporting evidence for the research findings. Theories to gangs may be existent, but without proper research leading to the findings, or experiences from subjects who lived the lifestyle, beliefs about the organizations merely become empty

    Read More

  • Teenagers In Gangs In The Outsiders, By S. E Hinton

    998 Words  | 4 Pages

    In the United States, every year there are around 2,000 gang-related homicides and in the realistic fiction novel, The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton, it explores the issues of gang violence, and teenagers in gangs. Around 40% of all members in gangs are teenagers, who are getting involved in some dangerous things very early in life. In the novel The Outsiders, the “Greasers” which is a gang of all teenagers, fight other gangs and commit serious crimes such as murder. We as a society need to pinpoint why teenagers join gangs and stop them beforehand. We also need to help people get out of gangs if they are already in one.

    Read More

  • Race And Gang Affiliation Essay

    1288 Words  | 6 Pages

    Block and Niederhoffer theorized that joining a gang was part of the male adolescents’ need to grow up into adulthood, so the gang provided the substitute for formalized puberty rights found in other societies (Bartolls & Miller, 2017). Cloward and Ohlin used the notion that lower-class boys interact with and gain support from other alienated individuals and they pursue illegitimate means to achieve the success that they cannot obtain through legitimate means. Cohen believed that gang delinquency represented the subcultural solution to the problems that the lower-class boys have when they are compared to middle-class values and the schools and Miller held that there is a definite lower-class culture and gang behavior is an expression of that culture (Bartollas and Miller pg. 284, 2017). Yablonsky believed that violent delinquent gangs arise out of certain conditions which are usually found in the urban slums and that encourages the development of sociopaths who later become leaders of the gangs.

    Read More

  • Poverty In The Nightline

    759 Words  | 4 Pages

    This view explains that lower class youth have limited opportunities so they join gangs

    Read More

  • Analysis Of The Unknown War: Gang Days In L. A By Luis Rodriguez

    1246 Words  | 5 Pages

    They were drawn into the gang life because people in gangs offered not only protection but a family, and power they wanted. It gives kids a sense of belonging and control over their own life. It is necessary tool to survive that is why many kids join the gangs. Throughout this book he explained that there is no functional system of these kids that have nothing better to do with their time. This affects kid’s way to get to the American

    Read More

  • Gangster Affects Community: Neighborhood Watch Program By Doyle Murphy

    1881 Words  | 8 Pages

    The brain is more sensitive to the influence of drugs and alcohol. Most likely today gangs are used and sell drugs and it might be easier for them to make powerful businesses to make a big profit, including weapons, and stolen property. Teen gang violence affects the neighborhood, middle school, high school, and the community. Which causes them to miss behave and act upon a gang. Gang should be terminated

    Read More

  • Stereotypes In End Of Watch

    1018 Words  | 5 Pages

    In the subculture that with see in the movie with the gang members it seems that they have normalized the violence in their community. They talk about killing their enemies and getting rid of them to show them who runs their neighborhood and also when they plan on killing both Zavala and Taylor. They show no remorse or any fear at the moment of doing the acts. Even though they are just theories part of them can relate to what happens in the movie and it helps explain up to some extent why the perpetrators did what they

    Read More

  • Gang Violence: The Causes Of African American Gangs

    1438 Words  | 6 Pages

    In the 1990s, gang violence was on the rise, where it was dominantly founded in youths. Anderson, Dyson, and Lee (1996) argued that when a group of African American youths join together and commits delinquent acts and crime, they already categorized as gangs to the American public. This affect and many other affects is what creates an increase in gang violence. Those other factors are socioeconomic status, history, race, gendered, and geographic background. They play a huge role on the creation and formation of gangs.

    Read More

  • Persuasive Essay On Gang Violence

    1457 Words  | 6 Pages

    Gang violence has been a problem in society for several of years and is a growing problem each and every day. The youth that is involved in gang violence will have numerous effects upon them that will come soon or later when associated with a group of thugs. Children and teenagers if they still go to school when accompanying a gang, they face the heightened risk of dropping out of school; teen parenthood; be victimized by another gang ; abuse drugs and alcohol; commit petty and violent

    Read More

  • Frederic Thrasher: The Emergence Of Gangs

    1375 Words  | 6 Pages

    The term gang can be attached to a legion of groups which would include outlaws from back in the nineteenth century in the west of America, a congregation of unruly prison inmates, members of the triads, the mafioso, and other organised criminal entities such as sons of anarchy a know motorcycle gang, and groups of socially displaced inner city youths. Despite its diverse definition, the term gang most of the times denotes the involvement to illegal or disreputable activities. The term gang were mostly facilitated by social scientists they use this term to describe a group of juveniles, this research can be dated back to 1927 with the involvement of Frederic Thrasher's literature titled The Gang: A study of 1313 gangs in Chicago.

    Read More

  • Youth Gangs Research Paper

    905 Words  | 4 Pages

    Members of gangs live off of the power they feel they have on their communities and continue to intimidate society through their violent

    Read More

  • Essay On Gang Violence

    1228 Words  | 5 Pages

    Throughout the 17th-century gangs have been causing havoc in people's life and destroying the society. The National Institute of Justice (2011) has defined a gang as "A group of collective members which create an atmosphere of intimidation among citizens. " Many of these gangs are well organized, using different forms of violence to control neighbourhoods and to conduct their illegal activities. The National Gang Threat Assessment (2011) reports that “Gangs are responsible for an average of 48 percent of violent crime in most jurisdictions.” Street Gangs have caused incidences of violence that is confined in the inner city of many countries.

    Read More

More about Gang Violence: Conflict Delinquent Subculture

Open Document