"Anotha sucka dead, L.A. Times front page." This is a quote from a well known rapper, Easy-E, of the grout NWA. He often claimed to be a gang member from the city of Compton. He had a history of being a drug dealer also. Easy-E and the rest of his group let the world know what a gang me...

Gangs Gang violence, crime, and its affects on the community A street gang is a group or association of three or more persons who may have a common identifying sign, symbol or name, and who individually or collectively engage in, or have engaged in, criminal activity, or as a juvenile commits an...

The connotations surrounding organized crime groups are typically shaped by the entertainment industry¡s portrayal on movies or in book publishing¡s. The Jamaican Posse does not fall into that typical description of an organized crime group. Their activities seem to be similar to those of an ev...

"Old North Durham" The living condition in North Durham has changed dramatically since my adolescent years. As a child I lived on 908 Gurley Street, located off the corner of Dowd Street. My neighborhood was called North Durham. Many different areas of Durham were known as the So...

PIRI THOMAS Down These Mean Streets Throughout the literary life of New York, many writers have concentrated their works on the influence that the atmosphere of the city has had on their lifestyle. There is hardly a major American, English, Irish, French, or Spanish writer who hasn't pour...

The central figures are a pair of cops, played by Sean Penn and Robert Duvall, assigned to C.R.A.S.H., which stands for Community Resource Against Street Hoodlums, and is the Los Angeles task force on gangs. Hodges, played by Duvall, is the older of the two who is a battle-toughened vet in his la...

Are they the same? Organized crime is bad. That statement is just about all I knew about organized crime before this assignment. I never saw any of the 'classic' movies about the Mafia, or even bothered to read anything about them. The only kind of crime that I knew about was the kind...

Prop 21 Education is the best part of life. Education can evolve you into a better person. Education can prevent you from committing crimes and will lead you to a prosperous life. Proposition 21; The Gang Violence and Juvenile Crime Prevention Act aims to incarcerate disturbed youth rather then e...

S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders is an epic tale of a hoodlum's life. There are surprising occurrences that take place throughout this story. The author holds suspense during the entire narrative told through the main character's viewpoint. Ponyboy Curtis, the main character, has to ove...

GANGSTERISUM GANGSTERISUM In 1919 congress passed the eighteenth amendment. Which abolished alcohol and legally prohibited the manufacturing or sale of any kind of alcoholic beverages. Thus bringing the rise and increase of organized crime and criminal activity. This amendment would be a huge ...

THE OUTSIDERS The novel "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton was based on two juvenile gangs. These gangs were divided by economical and social background, the lower East side where known as the "Greasers", and the upper West side were known as the "Socs". The novel is s...

Dutch Schultz Arthur Flegenheimer was born on November,6 1902 in the Bronx. His parents were both German Jews. Growing up in the Bronx, he early joined a local street gang for protection. He worked hard in order to make a name in the gang. He attuned public school until his father left the ...

Gangs are virtually everywhere in today's world. It is estimated that the number of gang members in our country equals over a quarter million of our nation's total population. Originally young people, most often teenagers, join a gang because they are lacking positive influences at home and/or at sc...

The future of society depends on our children's achievement today. But some children do not get the opportunities they need in order to achieve success. The film Boyz in the Hood is filled with disturbing images of children growing up in the inner city surrounded by rubble and filth, dysfunct...

In January 1899, Gabriel and Theresa Capone were awaiting the birth of their new son, unaware that he would eventually become one of the most notorious gangsters of all time. On the seventeenth of that month, their child Alphonse, later known as Al, was born. "He grew up in a rough neighborho...

Al Capone In this essay about Al Capone, I attend to prove to you that he was a cold heart killer who gave no mercy. Capone was a notorious gang member with no respect to anyone and would kill anyone on request or if someone just made him mad. Alphonse Capone was born on January 17, 1899 in B...

The film, "Colors," produced in 1988 by Dennis Hopper, is giving us a view of Los Angeles street gangs and how the police and community deal with them. What is ironic about the story is although there are plenty of scenes of violence and terror, the producer seems to take a more sympathetic stance...

Native Son Essay In Native Son Bigger struggles against authority. The authority is the white people. Bigger wants to have the same power as blacks. In the movie" The Heat" Stephen Moore played by Sean Lewis is the main charectar or protagonist. The authority is the ...

Graffiti is defined by Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary as "inscriptions or drawings made on some public surface" (10th ed. 1996). Graffiti appears on bridges, billboards, and signs across the nation. Some people may consider the inscriptions or drawings a work of "art." The masses, howe...

Prison Gangs With as much gang violence that occurs within the community today you can pretty much assume that the same can be applied outside of the community. It is thought that by taking these violent gang members off the streets the violence will lessen. This may be true in bettering the ...

Gang Culture has increasingly become a subculture for many teenage youths. Main minority teens, these social outcast are often have no real economic stability and no parental supervision or guidance. As a result, teenagers often rebel and seek comfort in gangs. These gangs...

"Always Running, by Luis T. Rodriguez, is a book based on a specific chapter of the author's life story. Rodriguez's life was centered on the fact that he was involved in gang life during his teen years. Like his book title, he was constantly running, whether it be a crime scene or the police. "...

The most famous gangster in our nation was Alphonse Capone, better known as Al Capone or Scarface. You will learn more about Al Capone's childhood and much more about this gangster. He has an anger problem and often over reacted to things and this is how his gangster life started. Alphonse...

It is quite normal for young children and teenagers to form peer groups. But when they go unsupervised and start engaging in criminal acts, that peer group becomes a "gang". A gang is an informal body of friends. They are peer groups who are socialized by the streets rather than by conv...

The Cross and The Switchblade The book I am writing about is The Cross and the Switchblade written by The Reverend David Wilkerson. It is a true story about an inexperienced country preacher's vision to help teenage boys who are in trouble. The story starts when the reverend reads an ...