Gangs and Society

Gangs can have a trem lastous effect on society. They have existed for hundreds of years, especi eithery in America. Although halos are usually created from mint who intend to offer safety in numbers, this safety is usually done through acts of crime. This book will explain how crowds and their actions affect society. Chapter one is Initiation. This include getting high with the other gang members, then getting beaten by his new comrades, then going out with a 12 suppose shotgun and ambushing a rival set. Sets are subsets of larger gangs like the Crips or the Bloods.Most gang violence occurs within these gangs between neighborhood sets. For example, Kodys gang, the octad Trays are Crips and mortal enemies to the Rollin Sixties Crips. Not only must each set fight their neighboring rivals, barely also they are expected to respect the larger scale wars. If a group of sets declare war on another group of sets then your set may be expected to take a side. This can result in some precise awkward diplomatic situations with Crip sets allied with Blood sets a bringst Crip sets and their allied Blood sets.At one point in the book, the Eight Trays found themselves at war with a previously good ally, because of these larger conflicts. Kody took to the violence. He saw it as the step from childhood into manhood. He was good at it and soon received the gang name, Monster. He willingly and joyfully joined Fly, Tray Ball, Huckabuck, Lep, Crazy D and Gangster Cool. These youths were very much aware of the gangster legends, who had gone before them. This older members were mostly either dead or in jail. They seldom appear in the book, but when they do, there is respect and admiration from the younger members.Kodys goal was to build such a re sickation. He even had a three point plan to wrap up his goal. First, he had to build his personal reputation by effectively using violence. Second, he had to build his name in association with his set, so that when his name is verbalize his set is spoken of in the same breath. Third, he must establish himself as a promoter of Crip. their activities affect society. Weapons were easily obtained from older members. 12 gauge, . 44, 9mm, . 38 were common. A banger seldom moved about without being strapped with his gat. The war was financed by thievery and drug sales.This was before crack and its associated gold made full automatic the weapons of choice. Kody would patrol his neighborhood on his bicycle carrying a loaded hand gun. They shot their enemies on sight. I was frightened at times by the fearlessness, heartlessness, and cold bloodedness of some of the armed guiltless homicides. Avenging assaults, initiation attacks and a peppering of random acts of murder accompany this proclaiming of manhood. One gang member, challenged to a confidential repayablel, responded, Im a killer, not a gunfighter. Monsters reputation built quickly. He was a very effective killer.Kody found himself the target of older gan g members who wanted him dead. He was ambushed, shot six times. He survived and went right back to banging. It all seemed quite normal to him. He couldnt imagine living life as a pinch, a civilian, a victim. He was at war for control of the civilians, the hood, their turf. Killing civilians was frowned upon. There was no glory in civilians, too easy. Some civilians even welcomed and protect the hoods bangers as defenders. Later in the book, while in prison, Kody was recruited into an army of bangers, the Consolidated Crips Organization.Thats CRIPS, as in Clandestine Revolutionary International Party Soldiers, defender of the C-Nation, unifier of the belligerent sets with claim to the Crips name. The older gang members were very aware of the need for more unity between gang members to reduce the crippling infighting. There is much pour forth and effort placed in creating a Gang. The primary motivation to such unity was surviving the larger scale wars. The Crips were allied with g angs of Southern Mexicans against the Aryan Nazis with their northern Mexican allies. California prison reads like a race war.This causes me to have nightmare visions of a possible Earth, where the racial and tribal lines of loyalty and disloyalty exists on a bloody worldwide scale. I took comfort in the fact that this book is the story of transformation, from a boy killer to a mature man. Gangs of all levels and types usually have a negative effect on society. Gangs, gang violence and gang wars typically suck up a city or towns police force resources because of the sheer number of people involved, lack of witness cooperation and types of crimes connected to gangs.Higher-level gangs that are investigated by the FBI sometimes force the agency to utilize very risky and very expensive resources like high-tech surveillance, informants and witness protection programs. Gangs also can bring down the property value of neighborhoods from the violence and vandalism involved with gang life. Big money investors may shy away from places where they feel that their properties and resources will not be used for fear of gang crimes. Gangs can also snub up prices of local groceries and commodities via their intimidating schemes that force businesses to pay them sums of money in exchange for protection. Gangs have been threatening the progression of our society due to the fear that has been put into everyones eyes. In my own hometown of Fairfax Virginia, now whenever people hear the police car sirens, the first thought that comes into their mind is someone got shot. Gang violence is not just an issue in Fairfax gang violence is known to be an issue all over the world. Gang violence seems to be increasing all over the world throughout the years, and its becoming a major issue. Many people agree that innocent live get taken due to terror and violence that gangs bring to our society.The lives of young people are being put in danger because most gangs recruit young people as memb ers. The younger members are the ones being sent to kill each other just to gain respect by the older people in the gangs, and the gain reputation in the gang too. Innocents peoples house get shot at because of the gangs trying to kill a gang member, and sometimes they end up killing an innocent person. Some people feel the criminal justice system is failing to control the growth and authorization of gangs in communities and prisons alike.In todays society, the age of gang members continues to decrease while the number of them continues to increase. As youth continue to age the chance that they will end up in prison increases. There will be focus on the relationship between prison and street gangs and how society is affected as a result of these gangs. It is important to look at how gang violence can be reduced if not prevented all together Mike Torbert The chronicle Of An L. A GangMember By Sanyika Shakur Sociology Paper 3/22/12