AMERICAN GANGS

American Gangs

AMERICAN GANGS

Introduction

The gangs, i.e. groups of people, who usually rule over an area, are a part of the American society. These gangs can be found all over the country, be it any city. The purpose of this report is to analyze the development of gangs, how they have managed to grow so much in the different societies of America. For this purpose, I made use of a number of researches, and had conversations with a number of people in this regard.

Method of data collection

To collect data, I first started with an interview with a few professors in the local community, and then I conducted a research in the local libraries, both online libraries and offline libraries.

Discussion

People in Europe know about the gangs' primarily through films and miscellaneous despicable things. These gangs are a sad reality that is present in the cities of American, these gangs very powerful and so intractable that the U.S. policies are implacable in front of them. (Chesney, Lind & Hagedorn 2009)

Centered on a territory, a gang is a group of young people enriched by informal and criminal activity in highly lucrative purpose.  A gang consists of a small number of people, and usually includes a few friends to hundreds of supporters of the people involved in the gang.  All gang members are usually young or very young from 10-30 years.  They seek to get rich very quickly by exploiting a "market" that legitimate businesses are unable or unwilling to address. (Campbell 1984)

Gangs in North America have much in common with the U.S. mafia of nineteenth and twentieth century's, but the structure differs in its basic nature. The Mafia is an organization long established, based on patriarchal and mostly composed of adults, and more often than not, the mafia has international ramifications that the gang has not. 

In the United States, the gangs usually have an ethnic identity, while the French bands are rather influenced by the neighborhood.  Indeed, the characteristics of the U.S. population, largely communities and radicalized, the gang is generally an "ethnic band" that thrives in a space defined by him as a common origin. (Camp & Camp 1985).

The phenomenon of a gang began in the nineteenth s in major cities of the east coast when the children of European immigrants newly arrived from the Old World rose groups of friends to help each other and also defend themselves against other bands.  The ...