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Gangs Midterm
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| National Gangs | over 1000 members, in many states, drug networks, aggressive recruiting strategies, want more power and massive membership |
| Examples of National Gangs | Crips, Bloods, The People Nation (an umbrella for many gangs including Vice Lords, Latin Kings) |
| Examples of Transnational Street Gangs | M-18, MS-13, and Asian Street Gangs |
| What usually happens to a gang member? | Death, imprisonment, life-long membership, life outside of the gang can be tough, pulled into gangs voluntarily, pushed into gangs forcefully. |
| Socialization in gangs? | Learn new norms and values, agents of socialization (primary and secondary), schools, peer groups, family, work, neighborhoods |
| Why join a gang? | respect, sense of pride, peer groups, family in gang, protection from bullies or rival gangs to protect turf, power, family issues, economics, sense of substitute family, thrills |
| How do youth join gangs? | it is often a gradual process not a single event, although most gangs have some sort of an event. it can be crude and not always formal. |
| Recruitment | - obligation, recruitment, fraternity like, coercive, use social media and other forms of recruitment like any other group we join - initiation |
| Initiations | non-violent crime, violent crime, beaten in, jumped in, sexed in, |
| code of the streets | respect or retaliation, honor, pride, learn different norms and values, use violence on day-to-day issues, a profound lack of faith, alienation |
| why do females join | economics, protection, lack of family, respect, fun and excitement. |
| female recruitment | - exposure to gangs - victimization at home - how much influence does gang have |
| female initiation | - jumped (beaten) in - born in - trained in |
| leaving a female gang | - often leave gang earlier due to pregnancy - must remove herself from neighborhood - hard transition back into conventional life - can be killed if trying to leave some gangs |
| types of female gangs | - auxiliaries - co ed membership - independent |
| crimes gangs commit | violent, homicide, robbery, assault and battery, rape, extortion, property crime, larceny theft, car theft, vandalism, drug sales, drug use, white collar crime, human trafficking, prostitution |
| social institutions of gangs | family, school, work, politics, church, social media, technology |
| Primary Gang prevention | healthcare, preventive education, better neighborhood environments, after school activities, sports, and community centers |
| Secondary Gang prevention | intervening with children |
| Tertiary Gang prevention | treatment or imprisonment |
| Police role | foot patrol, cars, stop and talks or chats, horseback, police gang units |
| Anti-Gang initiative | 1. To develop strategies to reduce gang related problems 2. To develop strategies to reduce gang related drug trafficking problems 3. To reduce fear instilled by gang related activities |
| Homeboy Industries | helps get gang members out of the gang and into regular, social life |
| Gang Resistance Education and Training (Great) | started in Phoenix in 1991 and modeled after DARE (taught by an officer), skills to resist gangs and gang violence, life skills to make good choices, middle school, elementary, summer and family curriculum |
| GREAT Success | Has been successful in: increases a positive attitude towards police, decrease in gang attitudes, increase in resisting peer pressure, decrease in gang membership |
| OJJDP | - engage gang youth - academic, economic, and social opportunities |
| Headstart | school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children educationally and health wise |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of America | - sports and recreation - character development - supervision - after school program |
| Proactive Policing | - patrol efforts - gang task forces - COMPSTAT - stings - raids - counterinsurgency methods |
| Reactive Strategies | - neighborhood sweeps - patrolling - roadblocks - gang task forces (are both proactive and reactive) - zero tolerance |
| Judicial Efforts | - truancy laws - banning colors - loitering restrictions - prosecution - hardcore gang units to improve prosecution due to witnesses or victims not wanting to report - courts |
| Legislation | - thrill killings added to the list of capital offenses - laws on graffiti - school safe zone laws - RICO |
| Gang Treatment Efforts | - restitution - community service - home detention - probation - electronic monitoring - intensive supervision - residential programs - home based programs - work programs - diversion - wilderness - outward bound |
| Gang Identifiers | arrested with a gang member, identified as a gang member, admitted membership, gang tattoos, lives in a gang area, uses signs and symbols, gang graffiti, in gang photos, involved in prison gang activity, other indicators |
| Gang Tattoos | - alpha tattoos (alphabet) - numeric (numbers, hide numbers in words, ex: BEA5T) - symbolic (story) - combination (two or more of the ones above) |
| Trends in gangs | Age, history, filling SES void, made in America, 3rd gen gangs, buffet style of crime, becoming illegal, uses the internet, infiltrates law enforcement and the military, |
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Kendalwebb07