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1、 浩天教育网 专业留学网课代修代上网站留学生Essay写作青少年团伙犯罪理论Theories for Youth Gang CrimeReasons Why Teens Engage in Street Gang Related CrimeIntroductionThe rapid increase of criminal gangs in the United States of America has been alarming in the recent past. It had been reported that these criminal gangs have been recr
2、uiting juveniles as members of the gang (Howell, 2015). Due to this tremendous increase, there has become the need to address this issue critically and extensively. The issue of radicalization of the youth can also be addressed on this topic (Howell, 2015). Most youths have enrolled themselves in th
3、ese gangs for a couple of reasons such as the need for affiliation and peer pressure, weak social; control structures among others. The thirst of power for these youngsters can also be seen as a driving factor to the enrolment to this criminal gang. The gangs have structures that are determined by t
4、he ability and willingness to commit crimes (Howell, 2015). These gangs are a major heat to the well-being of the people they operate around due to their actions of robbery, assaults and uncontrolled killings. Failure of the federal government to implement harsh laws on criminals bears all the blame
5、 for the increase in street gangs.Structure of gangsMost types of gangs form the general structure of the organized group. The group members, as derived from the definition of a gang, are from a similar background and share a common interest (Ratcliffe, 2016). The members of these groups are arrange
6、d in hierarchies which are determined by specific factors such as the ability to fight, physical structure, the willingness to commit crimes among others. Most gangs operate informally having their leadership falling on whoever takes control. The structure depends on their primary size which in most
7、 times ranges from five to thousand (Krohn & Eassey, 2015). The structure of gangs may also depend on the mission of the gang. It may have subgroups in itself that report to the main group.Research done by the federal board of investigations indicates that about thirty-three thousand criminal gangs
8、operate in the United States of America. These gangs have been reported to enroll about 1.4 million members in the past fourteen years (Ratcliffe, 2016). Another study by statistic brain found that about forty percent of the gangs in the US are below eighteen years of age. It further analyzed that a
9、bout eight percent of the gang members are females. Large cities and their suburbs remains the hub of street gangs in the United States America having about forty-one and twenty-five percent respectively (Phillips, 2015). Street gangs cost the government about one million dollars to establish the ga
10、ng risk intervention program that was initiated in the Los Angeles school systemSocial control theory postulates that most people would commit crimes if not for the controls that the society puts on them (Krohn & Eassey, 2015). In this case, most children will engage themselves in crimes since the s
11、ociety has less strict rules that guide the conduct of the children. The society may lack the fundamental structures that control the children such as the school. Due to this, the children are likely to be pulled by their peers to enter into crime and criminal related activities to so as to quench t
12、heir thirst of affiliation (Krohn & Eassey, 2015). The failure of the school to develop affirmative guidelines to control the behavior of the students can lead the students to crimes.Strain theory assumes that the society sets goals for the people to achieve. The people are guided by the societal va
13、lues so as to achieve that target. When people fail to achieve the targets in the most moral ways, they use every means to make sure that they at least accomplish what the society expects regardless of the moral drive (Krohn & Eassey, 2015). By so doing, they find themselves engaging in criminal act
14、s. In most times most people who engage themselves in crimes do not like hard work and delayed gratification, therefore, thy look for a better and faster way of achieving their goal.Social disorganization theory postulates that a childs physical and social environments are key factors that shape the
15、 behavior of the child. A society that has weak structures is likely to mold people who are weak in their morality. In this theory, the society a person lives in is held into account of the persons choices (Howell, 2015). A society that is characterized by poor schools, high rate of unemployment, an
16、d a mix of the residential and commercial property is likely to have many young people developing criminal behaviors. For example, a child living in a filthy environment will tend to have a behavior that leans towards crime while that who lives in a physically and morally clean environment is likely to have a behavior that leads the towards morality and deviance to crimes.Engaging in crimes violates the law. Gang violence is a thre
