cular time and place, or hold the drugs or the drug money during a transaction. Those who join voluntarily may be joining for the social relationships and a sense of identity. Others join for a sense of community, protection from other gangs and an overall sense of well being. It is believed that youth gangs may have first appeared in Europe or Mexico. No one is sure when or why gangs emerged in the Untied States. The earliest record of their appearance in the United States may have been as early as 1783 as the American Revolution ended. They may have emerged from adolescent playgroups or as a collective response to urban conditions in this countr
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