Gang Violence

“Once found principally in large cities, violent street gangs now affect public safety, community image, and quality of life in communities of all sizes in urban, suburban, and rural areas. No region of the United States is untouched by gangs. Gangs affect society at all levels, causing heightened fears for safety, violence, and economic costs” […]

Introduction Youth Gang is defined as a group that has been acknowledged by its members and by the society; it belongs to as a group involved in criminal acts. In this study, youth gang refers to the groups at which participants want to belong to are already members of that group. Youth refers to the […]

Dive into the annals of Los Angeles’ tumultuous , and a name that prominently surfaces is the ‘Hoover Criminals’. This group, which started as a faction of the Crips, has carved its own identity over the years, branching off and multiplying into various subsets. But to merely label them as just another gang would be […]

The Gangster Disciple is a gang that was formed on the South side of Chicago in the late 1960s, by Larry Hoover, leader of the High Supreme Gangsters, and David Barksdale, leader of the Black Disciples. The 2 groups joined to form the Black Gangster Disciple Country (BGDN). The gang has made several attempts to […]

The Four Corner Hustlers originated on Chicago’s Westside in the early 1970’s. The organization was founded by King Walter Wheat and Freddy “Malik” Gauge. Shortly after the Four Corner Hustlers emerged, they became allied with the Vice Lords street gang, becoming a faction and adopting Vice Lord symbols and colors. The gang operated as a […]

The Wormsley Common car-park gang were a group of adolescent delinquents who committed petty crimes to amuse themselves and were as customary as any other gang around London post the Second World War, that is, until they were joined by a new member. “It was the eve of the August Bank Holiday that the latest […]

The rise in gang violence in major British cities has dominated the news on numerous occasions this year – usually showing the perpetrators and victims of knife crime as being young, black males. The rising statistics have seen possible explanations emerge that span across topics including gender, race, politics, and the class divide. Sociological theory […]

Gangs run the streets in South Central Los Angeles. They are respected, dangerous, and feared by all who are not involved in gang activity. Two major Los Angeles gangs are the “Bloodz” and the “Crips”. These two gangs are professionals at what they do such as murder, drug trafficking, and avoiding law enforcement. Protecting their […]

The movie Gangs of New York is a 2002 film directed by Martin Scorsese which takes place between the year 1846 and the 1860’s. It is loosely based on the 1927 book of the same name by Herbert Ashbury. It is set amongst the turmoil in New York’s notorious Five Points District between the “native […]

Gun violence has remained a leading cause of death amongst adolescents aged 12-24 in the United States for the past two decades (Child Trends, 2014), and is most prevalent in inner-cities with high levels of gang activity (Stretesky & Pogrebin, 2007). Gang-related gun violence is responsible for the death of an average of over 2,000 […]