Street Gang

Examples of Street Gang in the following topics:

• Organized Crime

  • Sometimes criminal organizations force people to do business with them, as when a gang extorts money from shopkeepers for "protection."
  • Gangs may become "disciplined" enough to be considered "organized."
  • An organized gang or criminal set can also be referred to as a mob.
  • A distinctive gang culture underpins many, but not all, organized groups; this may develop through recruiting strategies, social learning processes in the corrective system experienced by youth, family, or peer involvement in crime, and the coercive actions of criminal authority figures.
  • The term "street gang" is commonly used interchangeably with "youth gang", referring to neighborhood or street-based youth groups that meet "gang" criteria.

• Fieldwork and Observation

  • For example, Sudhir Venkatesh's key informant, JT, was the leader of the street gang Venkatesh was studying.
  • As the leader of the gang, JT had a privileged vantage point to see, understand, and explain how the gang worked, as well as to introduce Venkatesh to other members.

• Global Crime

  • This has led to the rise of global criminal organizations such as Mara Salvatrucha and the 18th Street gang.

• Administrative Corruption

  • Known as the "Ohio Gang," President Harding and his political associates caused financial and political scandals in the 1920s.
  • Harding's election as U.S. president, friends and colleagues from the Ohio area moved to Washington, D.C., and made their headquarters in a house on K Street, an area famous for political connections and clout.
  • Eventually known as the "Ohio Gang," the financial and political scandals caused by these men – in addition to Harding's own personal controversies – severely damaged Harding's personal reputation and eclipsed his presidential accomplishments.
  • Albert Fall was a member of the so-called Ohio Gang that also included Attorney General Harry M.
  • In addition to involvement in Teapot Dome, the Ohio Gang was believed to have been behind recurring acts of cronyism and corruption, including storing bootleg whisky inside the White House.

• Illegitimate Opportunity Structures: Social Class and Crime

  • In a conflict subculture, youth learn to form gangs as a way to express frustration about the lack of normative opportunity structures in their neighborhood.
  • Thus, gangs become a subculture of their own, in contradistinction to the normative, peaceful model of youth behavior
  • In 1960, Cowan and Ohlin published Delinquency and Opportunity: A Theory of Delinquent Gangs.
  • New initiates into the gang will learn how to engage in conflict or gang activities to express frustrations by watching gang leadership.
  • Thus, gangs become a subculture of their own, in contradistinction to the normative, peaceful model of youth behavior.

• Clinton and Domestic Policy

  • Following the 101 California Street shooting, the 1993 Waco Siege, and other high-profile instances of violent crime, the Act expanded federal law in several ways.
  • Other parts of the Act provided for a greatly expanded federal death penalty, new classes of individuals banned from possessing firearms, the elimination of higher education for inmates, and a variety of new crimes defined in statutes relating to immigration law, hate crimes, sex crimes, and gang-related crime.

• The Indo-Aryan Migration and the Vedic Period

  • Different theories explain the Vedic Period, c. 1200 BCE, when Indo-Aryan people on the Indian subcontinent migrated to the Ganges Plain.
  • Foreigners from the north are believed to have migrated to India and settled in the Indus Valley and Ganges Plain from 1800-1500 BCE.
  • Vedic Civilization is believed to have been centered in the northwestern parts of the Indian subcontinent and spread around 1200 to the Ganges Plain, a 255-million hectare area (630 million acres) of flat, fertile land named after the Ganges River and covering most of what is now northern and eastern India, eastern parts of Pakistan, and most of Bangladesh.
  • From approximately 1000-500 BCE, the development of iron axes and ploughs enabled the Indo-Aryans to settle the thick forests on the western Ganges Plain.
  • The Ganges Plain is supported by the Indus and Ganges river systems.

• Slave Labor

  • There were two primary types of labor systems seen on plantations: the gang system and the task system.
  • The gang system was the more brutal of the two, forcing the slaves to work until the owner said they were finished and allowing them almost no freedom.
  • The gang system was much more efficient because it allowed continuous work at the same pace throughout the day, never letting up or slowing down.
  • The task system, on the other hand, was less harsh and allowed the slaves more autonomy than the gang system.

• Learning Styles

  • A group of four city planners in Boston is working on a project to improve the methods of repairing streets.
  • They have spent a lot of time in the field looking at streets and learning about the stresses they receive, how engineers currently deal with those problems, and the public's perceptions of street conditions.
  • Some improvements have been made including a new system of diagnosing problems and new methods of repairing the streets.
  • A question and answer session could also be implemented in an attempt to answer any questions concerning the new system of diagnosing problems and new methods of repairing the streets.
  • She also wants the employees to go into the field and see some of the streets that were used as models in the new program.

• The Roaring Twenties

  • It was not until the Wall Street Crash of 1929 that this remarkable era ended and the Great Depression spread worldwide.
  • The ban led to a groundswell of criminal activity, with powerful gangs controlling the sale and distribution of alcohol and a number of related activities including gambling and prostitution.