Analysis of Gangs, Violence, and Crime in American Society

Introduction

Violence in American society is a vast topic starting at its birth in the 1776 Revolution and continuing to the present day. Despite the diversity of each period of violence there are common features that resurface in each one.

Discussion

The use of violence to found the nation and also to preserve it in Civil War legitimatized it with the belief that "violence in a good cause pays" (Sheldon Tracy Brown 45-96). In many ways this accounts for the spill over of violence into society in the countless hostilities including whites against blacks and ...