SOC 3710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Illicit Cigarette Trade, Impression Management, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
8 Feb 2018
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Street gangs: activities hanging out: provides food, shelter, friendship, drug and alcohol use is common making money, sporadic for street gangs violence involves violent crime (ex. Robberies) and drug/sex trades: often related to impression management. Joining gangs: several routes into gang membership: Born in jumped in sexed in recruited with an initiation crime in, beat in create own gang. Female gang membership three categories of gang-involved young females: Affiliated with male dominated street gangs involvement in sex trade. Benefits of joining gangs sense of belonging safety identity income overview of gangs in canada: difficult to know how many gangs operate in canada. Academic studies usually focus on specific regions low level street gangs are constantly in flux: gangs exist in most provinces, but are rare in the territories. Most street gangs in marginalized communities and on reserves: outlaw motorcycles gangs are a problem in the maritimes in ontario, most gangs are in the gta and on northern reserves.
