Реферат: Analysis Of A Gang Essay Research Paper

with the blood but rather with the pain the victim must feel. A

younger mind doesn’t make this connection. Thus a gore fascination

is formed, and has been seen in several of my peers. Unfortunately

kids raised with this sort of television end up growing up with a

stronger propensity to becoming a violent gang member or

‘violent-acceptant’ person.

“Gangs bring the delinquent norms of society into intimate contact

with the individual.”1, (Marshall B Clinard, 1963). So, as you can

see if TV leads a child to believe that violence is the norm this will

manifest itself in the actions of the child quite, often in a gang

situation. This is especially the case when parents don’t spend a lot of

time with their kids at the TV explaining what is right and what is

wrong. Quite often newer books and some types of music will

enforce this type of thought and ideas.

Once this mentality is installed in youngsters they become

increasingly prone to being easily pushed into a gang situation by any

problem at home or elsewhere. For instance, in poor families with

many children or upper-middle class families where parents are

always working, the children will often feel deprived of love. Parents

can often feel that putting food on the table is enough love. Children

of these families may often go to the gang firstly out of boredom and

to belong somewhere. As time goes on, a form of love or kinship

develops between the gang members and the child. It is then that the

bond between the kid and the gang is completed because the gang

has effectively taken the place of the family.

The new anti social structure of cities also effects the ease in which a

boy/girl can join a gang. ” The formation of gangs in cities, and most

recently in suburbs, is facilitated by the same lack of community

among parents. The parents do not know what their children are