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	FACT SHEETS - Gang Violence
		While a majority of the gang related slayings were in the urban core, in the San Fernando Valley, the murder rate spiked 60% in 2001 because of gang related killings.
		Gang violence started to decrease 15 years ago, but in the last seven years, began to increase again in Los Angeles.
		Most law enforcement officials agree that gangs are a community problem that must be dealt with in a variety of approaches implemented by police, schools, community-based organizations, public health professionals and others in an interactive and cooperative approach to gang prevention and intervention.
	www.vpcla.org /factGang.htm (562 words)

	Youth Gangs and Violence
		Gang norms also constitute an important factor in the elevated level of violence in gang peer groups: "Violence that is internal to the gang, especially during group functions such as an initiation, serves to intensify the bonds among members" (Decker and Van Winkle, 1996: 270).
		Most gangs are governed by norms supporting the expressive use of violence to settle disputes (Short and Strodtbeck, 1965) and to achieve group goals associated with member recruitment, defense of one's identity as a gang member, turf protection and expansion, and defense of the gang's honor (Block and Block, 1993).
		Gangs are more likely to recruit adolescents who own firearms, and gang members are more than twice as likely as nongang members to own a gun for protection, more likely to have peers who own guns for protection, and more likely to carry their guns outside the home (Bjerregaard and Lizotte, 1995).
	ojjdp.ncjrs.org /jjbulletin/9808/youth.html (3614 words)

	Gang Violence in the United States (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gang violence is quickly becoming a greater threat to the well-being of our society and is predicted to "spiral out of control" by the year 2000.
		It said that "gang activity was on the increase in Maryland, in large part due to enforcement actions in cities like Chicago and Los Angeles" and that "organized gangs in out-of-state locations were seeking to expand their activities in the state because it was basically 'virgin territory'." (Sharp, 65).
		Chicago, a major gang center in the United States, is the home of the notorious Gangster Disciples, a gang with a history dating as far back as the 1960's.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~stwright/ac/papers97/Tsou-ac1.html (1391 words)

	Gang violence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gang violence refers to mostly those illegal and non-political acts of violence perpetrated by gangs against innocent people, property, or other gangs.
		Nearly every American city was ravaged by gang violence at some point in its history, and it often had profound effects on the political climate and later development in general.
		Gang members could often be identified by the large plug hats that they would wear pulled down over their ears, usually stuffed with paper and rags to mitigate blows from attackers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gang_violence (355 words)

	Gang Violence (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Aside from drugs, DC gangs were responsible for 2,260 homicides, rapes, and robberies in 1991; in homicides alone the members committed an astounding 380 of the 489 total homicides.
		DC gangs are loosely structured with varying leadership.
		Some of the most well-known gangs of DC include the Berry Farms Crew based in Anacostia, they are known for drugs; 5 N O Crew of Fifth and O Streets NW, they are known for violence; and the Lynch Mob of Bellevue Street, they are known for violence and drugs.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~stwright/ac/papers97/Emery-gangs.html (1765 words)

	Aurora mirrors nation in wave of gang crime
		Modern gang violence in the United States came to a statistical head in 1993, when 1,362 people lost their lives in gang-related violence.
		Curry said the reasons for the increases after a steady decline in gang violence through the mid 1990s are "totally mystifying to me." He points to Chicago and Los Angeles as two areas where gang violence has been on the rise.
		In Rockford, one of the causes of their recent rise in violence, which has claimed 19 lives this year, is due to "a lot of people that had gone to the penitentiary and are now back out on the street," Deputy Chief Dominic Iasparro said.
	www.gangwar.com /items/items11.htm (1585 words)

	Gang violence - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		Gang violence is defined by the United States Department of Justice as "any hostile physical interaction between (or among) two (or more) gangs,".
		The first recorded instance of gang violence occurred in 1961, between the Jets, a Polish-American street gang of New York City, and the Sharks, a Latino-American gang from the same region.
		There had been poor quality episodes of gang violence such as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, however the musical arrangements and choreography of these events, and the magnitude to which they sucked, divided them from the common understanding of the word.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Gang_violence (716 words)

	SafeYouth.org - Teen Facts - Youth Gangs
		A gang is a group of teens and young adults that hang out together and are involved in joint violent, illegal, or criminal activity. They generally give themselves a common name or symbol, and they often choose to wear a certain type of clothing or to display some other identifying item.
		And, while many people think of gangs as just an inner-city problem, that is clearly no longer the case. In the past few decades we have seen a dramatic increase in the growth of gang problems in smaller cities, towns, and rural areas.
		For most teens, gang membership is a brief phase. One-half to two-thirds of teen gang members leave the gang by the end of their first year.
	www.safeyouth.org /scripts/teens/gangs.asp (1705 words)

	Gang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Some commentators use "gang" to refer to small, informal, and disorganized "street gangs", while "syndicate" or "organized crime" are used to refer to larger, more powerful organizations, such as the Italian-American Mafia, which may control entire legitimate businesses as "fronts" for their illegal operations, bringing in millions of dollars per year.
		Gangs often spread by a parent or family moving out of the gang neighborhood, and the children taking the gang culture and lore with them to a new area and recruiting new members for their old gang.
		Gang warfare is commonly held over turf boundary disputes, the takeover of an area in order to bring in narcotics to push on the streets, personal rivalries, or simply the fact that the opposing group is different in some way.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gang (904 words)

	GANG VIOLENCE IN RURAL GEORGIA: (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cur-rently, citizens in rural Gainesville/Hall County, Georgia, are experiencing the effects of gang violence, particularly gang graffiti and gang shootings.
		This activity of gang behavior is probably the marking of their territory (turf); or informing each other about what is going on (down) in the area (hood); and/or the gathering of information about the activity of a par-ticular gang.
		Gang graffiti is also used to honor a dead member, often from a drive-by-shooting (Barr and Parrett, 2001).
	www.joeamerling.com /communityfight.html (4020 words)

	Medicine and Society - April 15, 1999 - American Academy of Family Physicians
		Street gangs have been described as an aggregation of youths who perceive themselves as distinct, who are viewed as distinct by their community and who call forth a consistently negative image of themselves through their actions.
		While gangs form a continuum from groups of disgruntled adolescents to organized crime syndicates, most street gangs are not efficient or sophisticated drug distributors.
		Gangs may be viewed as a failure of society to socialize a segment of its youth.
	www.aafp.org /afp/990415ap/medicine.html (1641 words)

	SafeState - Gangs and Youth Violence
		Gang violence is a serious problem in California, and no one is immune from the impact that gangs and youth violence can have on a community.
		Gangs and other criminal enterprises, operating in the U.S. and throughout the world, pose increasing concerns for the international law enforcement and intelligence communities, according to FBI testimony before the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere House International Relations Committee on April 20, 2005.
		Gangs: A Community Response tells the history of California-based gangs, and will help you identify types of gangs and signs of gang involvement.
	safestate.org /index.cfm?navID=12 (686 words)

	Gang Violence
		Gang members saunter by dressed in oversized jeans that are fastened far below the waistline, with the underwear usually showing, a style often referred to as “sagging.” The jeans are often worn with a pair of expensive designer sneakers, which cost anywhere from $100.00 to $150.00.
		Parents are faced with a question of what they can do to reduce violence in their communities and what they should have done to reduce it in the first place (6).
		Gangs are having a strong effect on schools, families, and societies.
	www.uab.edu /educ/FAC/jambor/gang.htm (1117 words)

	Teenage Girls and Gang Violence
		The study, "Female Gang Members: A Profile of Aggression and Victimization," by Christian E. Molidor of the University of Texas at Arlington School of Social Work, includes raw first-person accounts of gang life, based on interviews with 15 female gang members, ages 13-17, at a residential treatment facility in Texas.
		Initiation into a gang could include being beaten and kicked by gang members, participating in a robbery of drive by shooting, getting tattoos, having to fight 5 to 12 gang members at once, or having sex with multiple male gang members, the study said.
		It also calls for violence prevention efforts in the public schools, outreach programs in the community to aid troubled families of gang members, restrictions on the availability of weapons, and more effective ways to identify victims of physical and sexual abuse.
	www.casanet.org /library/delinquency/teenage.htm (807 words)

	FASTEN NetworkGang Statistics
		It is estimated that 772,500 people in the U.S. were members of gangs in 2000, a drop of 8% from the number of active members in 1999, but again, cities with population over 25,000 experienced an increase in the number of active gang members despite the overall drop.
		It is estimated that 39% of gangs active in 2000 had at least one female member; 2% of gangs were identified as being composed of predominantly female members.
		In 1996, 50% of gang members were under the age of 18, but in 1999 only 37% of gang members were estimated to be under the age of 18.
	www.fastennetwork.org /Display.asp?Page=gangStats (638 words)

	Violence Topics -- Gang Violence (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The definitions of gang and gang violence are a matter of controversy and confusion among law enforcement and researchers.
		Gang violence is sometimes defined based on whether an incident involved a suspect or victim who is a gang member and sometimes based on whether the incident involved gang activity (e.g., retaliation, territoriality, recruitment, wearing gang colors, shouting gang slogans)
		Gangs of today are based on similar needs to identify with a group.
	vip.msu.edu /theCAT/gang_violence/violence_gang.html (266 words)

	Criminal Justice Resources Resources: Gangs
		Whether female gangs are seen as a serious problem depends in large part on the level of their delinquent and criminal activities and the types of offenses they commit.
		Gangs are studied in terms of their existence, influence, and nature for means of determining the proper course of action to be taken for prevention and knowledge.
		Violence by Gang Members (2 pp.) (NCJ 208875) provides estimates of the number and rate of violent crimes committed by offenders that victims perceived to be members of gangs based on the National Crime Victimization Survey data.
	www.lib.msu.edu /harris23/crimjust/gangs.htm (11396 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Rio hit by deadly gang violence
		Gang attacks on buses and police stations in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro have left at least 18 people dead, officials say.
		The gangs were trying to put pressure on the authorities ahead of the swearing-in of a new state governor on 1 January, Rio state Security Secretary Roberto Precioso told reporters.
		Its favelas, are frequently the scene of shoot-outs between officers and gang members, as are poor neighbourhoods in other Brazilian cities.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/6214299.stm (446 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Plea for gang violence crackdown
		Regional police chiefs are in LA to discuss fighting the gangs, blamed for a spree of murder, rape and robbery.
		These root issues needed to be addressed as part of a solution to gang violence in the United States and elsewhere, he said.
		"Gang violence is a problem of international scope, and we must face it on a international scale," he said, quoted by AFP news agency.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/6338609.stm (487 words)

	Community Approach to Gang Violence (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Law enforcement officials and community residents are proposing that drastic measures be taken to stem the rising tide of youth gang violence.
		The best hope for reducing youth gang violence lies in a strategy of attrition -- one that prevents youths from joining gangs and encourages gang members to abandon their gang affiliations.
		I maintain that the most effective approach to youth gang violence is one that seeks to remedy the underlying causes of the problem.
	www.smartvoter.org /1998nov/ca/scl/vote/diaz_r/paper1.html (305 words)

	Gang Violence: News & Videos about Gang Violence - CNN.com
		Twenty-six alleged members of a Hispanic gang believed to be one of the nation's largest and most violent were indicted in North Carolina and charged with offenses including drug activity, racketeering, assault and murder, according to federal court documents.
		The violence plaguing western Kenya's Rift Valley spread to the country's Western Province Monday, according to an official with the International Committee of the Red Cross.
		A criminal gang in Brazil launched a wave of attacks against police stations in greater Sao Paulo and uprisings in 64 jails across Sao Paulo state at the weekend, resulting in at least 52 deaths, authorities said.
	topics.cnn.com /topics/gang_violence (3184 words)

	New Jersey State Police - 2005 News Releases
		In 44 percent of the municipalities in which an active street gang presence was reported, gang activity was said by police to have increased compared to the previous year.
		Other street gangs, meanwhile, may operate in multiple jurisdictions at the same time, or on a shifting basis, making it difficult to determine if their membership constitutes one outlaw gang or several.
		While the newest survey results provide convincing statistical and anecdotal evidence that street gang activity is on the rise, he said, some of the stark contrast in data between the 2001 and 2004 studies may also have to do with fundamental differences in survey methodology, and in levels of police participation.
	www.njsp.org /news/pr063005.html (1526 words)

	reviewjournal.com -- News - Gang violence resurgence seen
		For years, gangs have migrated to Las Vegas from Southern California, and much of this came to a head in the mid-1990s when there were a reported 527 gang-related shootings in Las Vegas police's jurisdiction.
		Gang life is being glorified in both mainstream and underground pop culture, he said, including the "Hood 2 Hood" video series.
		While gang activity is on the rise, however, funding for many of the organizations that work directly with gang members or in prevention is not forthcoming.
	www.reviewjournal.com /lvrj_home/2006/Jun-18-Sun-2006/news/8012595.html (2008 words)

	Gang Violence in America
		Gang violence is becoming more and more of a problem in America today.
		i think that we should stop gang violence because it's not fair that innocent people are the one's getting hurt.also because not only they are hurting them but they are hurting their love one's too.this is why i think that we should stop gang violence.
		The fear is legitimate, because the nature of a greater portion of gang members is ruthless, and oblivious to consequence.
	www.socyberty.com /Society/Gang-Violence-in-America.46306 (1326 words)

	Violence at Gang Films 1991
		A number of critics have said that it is unfortunate that gang violence marred Singleton's film debut.
		I think it's a symptom of all the problems [of Blacks], especially that a lot of Blacks see violence as a way you deal with things and that most of these people are angry all the time-about their life condition and the way they've been treated-and all you need is a trigger.
		Their coverage of violence and the subsequent milking of the story often result in more violence...
	www.fradical.com /Violence_at_gangster_films.htm (1591 words)

	Gang Violence in Central America (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Estimates indicate that there are some 25,000 to 300,000 active gang members in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, which have extended their sphere of influence beyond their traditional urban areas to some of the most remote corners of Central America.
		The Central American gang phenomenon is also growing in North America, with Central American gangs now active in various parts of the United States (including Los Angeles, the Washington, DC metropolitan area, Chicago, Long Island, Houston, Durham, Omaha and Anchorage), as well as throughout urban and rural areas in Mexico and Canada.
		The conference, “Voices from the Field: Local Initiatives and New Research on Central American Youth Gang Violence,” was sponsored by the Inter-American Coalition for the Prevention of Youth Violence (IACPV)*, the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), the Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF), and PAHO.
	www.wola.org /gangs/gangs.htm (778 words)

	Lawmakers confront gang violence \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Impose stiffer sentences for felony gang crimes, from murder to carjacking.
		Increase the maximum penalty for knowingly selling a firearm that is later used in crimes of violence or drug trafficking to 20 years – double the current 10.
		Gangs laugh off the threat of prison, knowing that sentences are routinely shortened because of plea bargains and overcrowding, he said.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20070409/news_1n9gangs.html (1618 words)

	News: Gang killings take young lives in Santa Ana \| gang, says, year, santa, secundino - OCRegister.com
		After the 2006 jump in gang violence, the Santa Ana City Council and the Police Department formed an anti-gang commission, increased the number of gang-suppression detectives from six to 15, funded a police athletic league for youth, expanded its summer camp and started a $1 million gang reward program.
		Two of Salazar's four daughters say they have moved away because of the violence in the area and are trying to convince their mother to move.
		"Gangs are always going to be a thing of the youth," says Santa Ana police Sgt. Jon Centanni, who has been supervising gang homicides and assaults for six years.
	www.ocregister.com /news/gang-says-year-1970475-santa-secundino (1377 words)

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