PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Quicksand, Making Money
Document Summary
Why people join gangs and separate children from gang violence. make them not to choose gang. Mostly teenagers are involved as they r easy to manipulate. There has been ups and downs for gang violence. Gang violence has been occurring in north american history for very long time and it continues till today. Many innocent people have been injured and even lost their lives because of gang violence. Even after using the law enforcement, it may have decreased but not eliminated yet. To eliminate gang violence or at least to keep it moving towards reduction, we first have to understand the mentality of the gang members and understand the reason behind why gangs keep continuing even after such strict law enforcement. Study of gang members can be helpful to reduce gang violence and may be able to eliminate it at some point.
