Gangs
I'm doing a report on . I need to start off by saying that
a lot of the stuff I'm about to say, I think is bull shit. I think this
because I am in a gang and do, or did drugs. I also have to disagree with
some of, no actually a lot of the stuff I am about to say.
Before I babble on about gangs I have to say one thing. Not all
gangs are based around Latino's and or African-American's. Nor are all
the gangs from Los Angeles area, but the Barrio is in East Los Angeles.
There are many different gangs around. Some consist of African-
Americans, Latinos, Skinheads, Caucasians, and Asians. Some are mixed. A
lot of the gangs I've heard about and are friends with, mainly ...
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the Necronomicon, who jumped me and my homeboy (who's Latino) just
because we weren't white.
Another one would belong to the punks. Which I do not have a
problem with. The only two punk gangs I know of, do not call themselves
"Gangs" but they call themselves a crew. They call themselves CFH,
(Cowboys From Hell) and the other one is the Martians.
A lot of the gang members come from broken homes, or something is
wrong. So the kids end up in gangs doing drugs, drinking, smoking,
committing crimes, and getting into violence. Some of us consider our
gang "family." Some of the gangs actually do have real families in them.
There's the problem of joining gangs. I got jumped into my gang.
But that's one of the most common ways. The other ways are to have sex
with someone who's already in it. Or you can get walked in. Some other
ways which are sick and twisted that I've heard of are; the leader holds a
knife to the newcomers throat. If the leader thinks ...
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that
about half of the gang members had some relative in some gang (44 percent
of the men and 59 percent of the women). It is true that young members
were significantly more likely than older ones to have a relative. It is
true that a fraction (less than 20 percent) of the gang members came from
what seem to be "gang families"-with three or more relatives in a gang in
either neighborhood. Rather than "inheritance" being the norm, most
relatives were brothers and cousins and uncles rather than parents.
No matter what particular social network led the member to the
gang, one thing is clear: the gangs' initiation procedures became far more
ritualized. By the time the younger ...
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