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	Street Gang Dynamics
		Street gangs are very fluid in nature, and while it is fairly easy to develop intelligence information about them, many times the information is outdated almost before it is disseminated to the proper individuals.
		Gangs as most people think of them probably began to be recognized by the general public around the nation with the birth of the Los Angeles gangs in the early seventies.
		If a gang member witnesses a fellow member failing to dis a rival gang through hand signs, graffiti, or a simple "mad dog" or stare-down, they can issue a "violation" to their fellow posse member and he/she can actually be "beaten down" by their own gang as punishment.
	www.gangwar.com /dynamics.htm (3545 words)

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		Gangs are as different as their members, but in general, they fall into one of three categories.
		Gangs were like the Boys' Club or the "Y" in their neighborhood, and they joined because it gave them something to do and a place to be.
		Because even though gangs have long been part of the background of city life, they broke out at the same time that social forces were deserting the inner cities, as factories shut their doors and social services were dismantled.
	www.doitnow.org /pages/178.html (3127 words)

	Hispanic Gangs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gang members also started to tattoo themselves with the number 13 and with the terms Sureno or sur along with the name of their gang, to signify their origin in southern California.
		By the mid 1990s, the gang ethic of the 1950s and 1960s was almost totally gone, and new rules prevailed for street gangs.
		Street gangs, as a whole, had established a hold in rural American and in small to mid-sized towns around the country.
	www.nagia.org /Hispanic_Gangs.htm (5874 words)

	Combating Street Gangs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The average gang is composed of males, ages 12 to 21, who reside in poor, central areas of cities with populations of more than 200,000.
		In areas where gang problems are endemic, such as Los Angeles County, prevention and intervention strategies combined with long-term, proactive investigations of entire gangs work better than reactive, short-term investigations and prosecutions of individual gang members.
		Gang members can also be spread across the Federal system rather than being housed in State prisons where many of their fellow inmates may have been members of their gang outside prison walls.
	www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org /pubs/reform/ch2_e.html (3306 words)

	Gang Awareness
		Street gangs in Los Angeles County can be described as a group of individuals who may or may not claim control over a certain territory in the community.
		Gang members in Los Angeles County do not fit the movie image where they are portrayed fulfilling specific roles in the gang, such as "president" or "enforcer," while wearing jackets similar to those worn by many car clubs.
		Parents and relatives of gang members live in a double fear; one for their own safety and that of other non-gang family members, and a second fear for the survival of their gang member son or daughter.
	www.tpd.torrnet.com /GangAwareness.htm (1580 words)

	SavannahNOW, Savannah Morning News on the Web - Turf Wars, Savannah's Gangs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gang graffiti is cryptic and subtle, most of the time confined to certain areas in inner-city neighborhoods.
		While eastside gangs affiliate with the national gang label of Bloods or Piru, the Hitch Village Posse is the only eastside gang that affiliates itself with the national gang label of Crips, resulting in the current rivalry.
		Children on the street, meanwhile, say that Johnson is not in a gang, but that true gang members are jealous of his musical success, resulting in the rivalry.
	www.savannahnow.com /features/gangs (3222 words)

	Criminal Street Gangs
		A gang is an organized group with a recognized leader whose activities are either criminal or, at the very least, threatening to the community.
		Gangs display their identity and unity in obvious ways, such as the use of jewelry, selected colored clothing, jargon and signals.
		Parents should be aware of the identifiers gangs use and be observant that they do not appear on the personal articles of their children.
	www.sheriff.co.st-clair.il.us /strgang.asp (1067 words)

	Stygius: Street gangs & Insurgency
		The primary thrust of this monograph is to explain the linkage of contemporary criminal street gangs (that is, the gang phenomenon or third generation gangs) to insurgency in terms of the instability it wreaks upon government and the concomitant challenge to state sovereignty.
		Although there are differences between gangs and insurgents regarding motives and modes of operations, this linkage infers that gang phenomena are mutated forms of urban insurgency.
		In studying such gangs as a political phenomenon, we can see they are competing with the state for sovereignty, and are not merely seeking to destroy "sovereignty" and expose state impotence.
	stygius.typepad.com /stygius/2005/03/street_gangs_in.html (830 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.
		The Texas Gang Investigators Association was founded in 1991 by a small group of officers charged with the investigation of street gangs and their criminal activities.
	www.lib.msu.edu /harris23/crimjust/gangs.htm (9208 words)

	ERRI SPECIAL REPORT: HOW STREET GANGS CONTROL PRISONS
		It is believed by many law enforcement officials and gang experts that Colon controls all manner of illegal activity that is perpetrated by the Latin Kings throughout the 26 adult prisons in the State of Illinois -- including the ordering the murder of a prison guard in 1989 and running a major drug trafficking ring.
		Gangs are better able to control inmates for two simple reasons: (1) The punishment that they can deliver is more severe than any- thing that a warden can do and (2) inmates know that there is very little that prison guards and officials can do to protect them.
		While the drug trade is important to the street gang members in prison, there is only one other thing that is even more important and that is weapons to defend oneself.
	www.emergency.com /gangprsn.htm (2281 words)

	An Urban Ethnography of Latino Street (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is an on-going urban ethnography which began as part of a sabbatical leave from California State University Northridge in June of 1996, focusing on Latino street gangs in Los Angeles and Ventura counties.
		Currently as of October 1999 it has expanded to Albuquerque and Phoenix hoping to find solutions, to share an ever expanding body of data and literature on Latino street gangs, and to locate successful strategies for prevention and intervention with at-risk youths.
		Another objective of this research is to discover turning points where intervention might prove useful.
	www.csun.edu /~hcchs006/gang.html (186 words)

	Florida Gangs -- Gangs and Security Threat Group Awareness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Every state and major city in the United States is plagued with local, loosely structured, street gangs that are mainly motivated by drug sales.
		Often the group evolves, and adopts an alliance with a national street gang such as the Bloods, Crips, or Chicago-based Folk Nation and People Nation sets and use their symbols and identifiers.
		This graduation in gang involvement often occurs in county jails, prisons, and juvenile facilities.
	www.dc.state.fl.us /pub/gangs/fl.html (263 words)

	Gang Busters
		The fifties saw "rumbles"—pitched street battles between the switchblade gangs, immortalized by the fictional Puerto Rican Sharks and Anglo Jets of West Side Story; in the sixties, the fl Jolly Stompers held sway in Brownsville, Brooklyn; and the mostly Latino Savage Nomads prowled the South Bronx in the early seventies.
		When it picks up a rumor of a gang fight from school security or learns of an assault where a gang name was used, it saturates the area with uniformed officers and detectives.
		Some have estimated the number of Mexican gangs at 30, but both police and sociologists play down their significance, pointing out that the new gangs don't have nearly the numbers or the organization that the Latin Kings or even the Ñetas had five years ago.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/features/n_8118 (1380 words)

	Asian Street Gangs and Organized Crime in Focus
		The vast majority of the people the gangs target are Asian, and because of long standing mistrust and suspicion directed against the police and the government - attitudes that took shape overseas in the face of brutal political oppression - it is often hard to gauge the extent of the local problem.
		They can be easily identified by the presence of three dots on the hand signifying their membership in the gang.” Burn marks and skin tattoos commonly signify membership in Asian street gangs.
		During the 1970s and 1980s, the Wah Ching, a Chinese street gang organized in 1966, came to control most of the criminal vices in the Chinatowns of Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco.
	www.ipsn.org /asg08107.html (1648 words)

	People and Folk Nation Sets -- Gang and Security Threat Group Awareness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The People Nation and Folk Nation are not gangs - they are alliances under which gangs are aligned.
		They are the oldest and largest Hispanic-led street gang in Chicago.
		Their main focus is to control drug trafficking and internal gang discipline, both within the prison and community.
	www.dc.state.fl.us /pub/gangs/sets.html (483 words)

	Chicago Street Gangs \| MetaFilter
		Students at my high school were always warning one another not to wear particular color combinations or clothes with five- or six-pointed stars on them or to wear hats turned to the left or the right because either the folks or the people would want to beat them up.
		People and Folks affiliations are just a regional version of the national Crips and Bloods affiliations (People, by the way, are generally aligned with Bloods, and Folks with Crips.) Basically, just as local street gangs develop as a means of self-defense, pre-empting attacks by other gang members, so do the broader affiliations.
		Much of the violence associated with gang activity is said to revolve around affiliation issues, and it's possible that the drop in related crime is partly due to the completion of national affiliation networks and a kind of normalcy.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/28103 (1127 words)

	The Coroner's Report - Gangwar.com - Main Menu
		You'll hear how race-based gangs control institutions and prey on the weak - and how a rape epidemic has swept the U.S. prison system.
		An overview of the history and identification of street gangs
		Personal background and profile of one of the nation's most outspoken experts on gangs and juvenile violence.
	www.gangwar.com (277 words)

	STREET GANGS
		Marauding gangs have become a fact of life in the U.S., but where did
		This is a crash course in racist violence by Loren Christensen, a
		official guidelines for responding to street gang activity.
	www.pimall.com /nais/bk.gang.html (487 words)

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