Examples of Street Gang in the following topics:
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- Sometimes criminal organizations force people to do business with them, as when a gang extorts money from shopkeepers for "protection."
- Gangs may become "disciplined" enough to be considered "organized."
- An organized gang or criminal set can also be referred to as a mob.
- A distinctive gang culture underpins many, but not all, organized groups; this may develop through recruiting strategies, social learning processes in the corrective system experienced by youth, family, or peer involvement in crime, and the coercive actions of criminal authority figures.
- The term "street gang" is commonly used interchangeably with "youth gang", referring to neighborhood or street-based youth groups that meet "gang" criteria.
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- For example, Sudhir Venkatesh's key informant, JT, was the leader of the street gang Venkatesh was studying.
- As the leader of the gang, JT had a privileged vantage point to see, understand, and explain how the gang worked, as well as to introduce Venkatesh to other members.
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- This has led to the rise of global criminal organizations such as Mara Salvatrucha and the 18th Street gang.
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- ., a member of the Mafia or street gang values wealth but employs alternative means of attaining her wealth)
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- In a conflict subculture, youth learn to form gangs as a way to express frustration about the lack of normative opportunity structures in their neighborhood.
- Thus, gangs become a subculture of their own, in contradistinction to the normative, peaceful model of youth behavior
- In 1960, Cowan and Ohlin published Delinquency and Opportunity: A Theory of Delinquent Gangs.
- New initiates into the gang will learn how to engage in conflict or gang activities to express frustrations by watching gang leadership.
- Thus, gangs become a subculture of their own, in contradistinction to the normative, peaceful model of youth behavior.
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- In certain urban environments, the symbolic meaning of people's clothes can signal gang affiliation.
- Other gang members use these symbolic sartorial signals to recognize enemies and allies.
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- In a criminal gang, on the other hand, a stronger sanction might apply in the case of someone threatening to inform to the police.
- In a criminal gang, a stronger sanction applies in the case of someone threatening to inform to the police.
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- Sometimes criminal organizations force people to do business with them, as when a gang extorts money from shopkeepers for "protection. " An organized gang or criminal set can also be referred to as a mob.
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- Occupy Wall Street protesters approach inequality from a social justice perspective that holds that all Americans deserve equal life chances and have been denied them by market-oriented approaches to economic regulation (or lack thereof).
- Occupy Wall Street protesters approach inequality from a social justice perspective that holds that all Americans deserve equal life chances and have been denied them by market-oriented approaches to economic regulation (or lack thereof).
- Protestors at Occupy Wall Street adhere to the position that income inequality is a detriment to society.
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- As opposed to bureaucrats carrying out "desk jobs," street-level bureaucracy is the subset of a public agency or government institution containing the individuals who carry out and enforce the actions required by laws and public policies.
- Street-level bureaucracy is accompanied by the idea that these individuals vary the extents to which they enforce the rules and laws assigned to them.
- The concept of street-level bureaucracy was first coined by Michael Lipsky in 1980, who argued that "policy implementation in the end comes down to the people who actually implement it".
- Street-level bureaucrats include police officers, firefighters, and other individuals, who on a daily basis interact with regular citizens and provide the force behind the given rules and laws in their areas of expertise.