SOC 3710 Final: YouthJustice-FinalExam-LectureNotes

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3710
• Professor: Bill O' Grady

Document Summary

Defining youth gangs: varied definitions- different groups have different definitions. By keeping numbers small they have more influence over members: gangs have to have some form of initiation, there are some gangs that are wannabe gangs that have all the things on the list but lack criminal activity. Tamer and wortley- interviewed 300 kids in toronto and 5% percent of them say that they have and are involved in a gang. Social-networking for recruiting gang members: the more entrenched you are in a gang the higher the chance of things ending up badly for you. Vankatesh: chicago: african american public project, weak civil society that most take for granted: unstructured families. Homeless youth, this terminology was not used; there were no shelter homes, thus, no research available. 100 years age: street urchins (linked to jda) 20/8-issue not on radar until late 1970s early 1980s: they were more visible deinstitutionalization mental hospitals conditions like .