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Title: Why Do Children Join Gangs


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Why Do Children Join Gangs?
  • Significant Numbers of Our Children Involved in
    Gangs and Influences Effecting Membership.
  • Gang trends and the popularity of
  • the Gang Lifestyle. The School Perspective
  • Sociology of Juvenile Gang
  • Members and Prevention/Intervention.

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GVS PO DUITES
  • SUPERVISE 30 VALIDATED GANG MEMBERS
  • WORK WITH SPD GANG DETECTIVE IN INVESTIGATING
    GANG RELATED CRIMES IN GVS TARGET AREA
  • WORK WITH SCHOOL GANG PREVENTION SUPERVISOR, AND
    SROS ON AND OFF CAMPUS WITH INTERVENTION,
    PREVENTION, EDUCATION AND SUPPRESSION
  • PROVIDE PRESENTATIONS ON GANG AWARENESS TO ALLIED
    AGENCIES, TEACHERS ADMINISTRATORS, CHURCHES,
    PARENTS AND COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS
  • ASSIST PROBATION, SPD, AND SHERIFFS GANG UNITS
    WITH SURVEILLANCES, SEARCH WARRANTS, AND ARREST

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HOW DOES A CHILD BECOME A VALIDATED GANG MEMBER?
  • Contacted by law enforcement and must meet two of
    ten criteria.

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What is a gang validation?
  • The process that law enforcement uses to identify
    gang members

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Validation Criteria
  • Admits his/her membership in a gang
  • Tattooed with gang logo
  • In the company of a validated and/or admitted
    gang member
  • Involved in gang crimes
  • Named by 2 or more members of a gang, as a member
    of their gang
  • In a photo indicating gang affiliation
  • Custody correspondence where the individual
    identifies him/her self as a gang member (CYA,
    Juvenile Hall, Jail, Prison)
  • Contacted in the field by police participating in
    gang related activity
  • Has gang graffiti
  • Wearing gang clothing

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NUMBERS
  • 20,000 PROBATIONERS
  • 14,000 ARE ADULTS
  • 6,000 ARE JUVENILES
  • 3,000 ADULT GANG MEMBERS
  • 1,300 JUVENILE GANG MEMBERS
  • 700 TOTAL GANG MEMBERS SUERVISED BY GANG UNIT

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Sobering Stats
  • In 2006, 56 of all homicides in the City of Los
    Angeles were gang related
  • (272 out of 481)
  • 33 of all homicides in the City of Sacramento
    were gang related in 2006

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Increasing Numbers
  • 4,145 validated gang members in Sacramento County
  • Approximately 2000 gang members that have not
    been validated
  • 65 validated sets in Sacramento County

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Target Area over a 6 Month Period
  • 133 arrested (71 adult, 62 juveniles)
  • 897 active gang members
  • 4 new gangs
  • 81 gang related crimes investigated by GVS

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Influences on Children Joining Gangs
  • Generational
  • Monetary
  • Protection
  • Peer Pressure
  • Excitement (satisfying me)
  • Power/Control (guns/weapons)
  • The New Cool (everyone wants to be a gangster)

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GVS SUPERVISOR DUTIES
  • LIASON WITH SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS, GVS LAW
    ENFORCEMENT PARTNERS
  • ASSIST WITH INVESTIGATIONS REGARDING GANG RELATED
    CRIMES ON CAMPUS AND IN THE COMMUNITY
  • PROVIDES STAFF, STUDENT AND COMMUNITY TRAINING IN
    GANG AWARENESS AND PREVENTION
  • COORDINATE PREVALIDATION PARENT CONFERENCES
  • GANG SPECIALIST TO SACRAMNETO CITY UNIFIED
    SCHOOL DISTRICT

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Gang activity on campus
  • GRAFITTI
  • LANGUAGE
  • CLOTHING
  • NOTE BOOKS, BACKPACKS
  • TATTOOS, PERMANENT AND TEMPORARY

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Impact on Campus
  • Decreased sense of safety
  • Tension
  • Increased truancy rates
  • Suspensions
  • Fights and weapons
  • Vandalism

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What can you do?
  • Prevention, intervention and suppression is an
    overlapping continuum
  • Focus needs to be on early prevention
  • Recognize that gang representation fills a need
  • Provide opportunities for youth to choose
    positive friends
  • Learn about gang activity in your community
  • Encourage youth that mistakes are opportunities
    to learn
  • Develop positive relationships with youth
  • And so much more.

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Gangs Arise and Persist Out of Human Need
  • Gangs serve a purpose.
  • Legitimate Human Needs
  • Survival
  • Acceptance
  • Belonging
  • Power
  • Fun
  • Freedom
  • (Glasser).

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Gangs Arise and Persist Out of Human Need
  • Legitimate Needs Served by Gangs
  • Survival
  • Acceptance
  • Belonging
  • Power
  • Fun
  • Freedom
  • (Glasser).

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Gangs Arise and Persist Out of Human Need
  • Basic premise prevention and intervention
    efforts must be targeted at providing at-risk and
    gang involved youth with legitimate alternatives
    for fulfilling basic needs.

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Good News
  • In even the most at-risk communities the vast
    majority of youth do not join gangs.
  • For the majority of youth who join gangs, gang
    membership is a transitory experience.

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The Historical Context of Gangs
  • Gangs in existence since at least the middle
    ages modern youth gangs traced to mid
    nineteenth century shift from agrarian to
    industrial society.
  • In the United States, social and economic
    pressures of rapid industrialization,
    urbanization and immigration give rise to
    organized gangs.

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The Historical Context of Gangs
  • Heightened attention during World War II. Race
    riots in 1943 lead to minority youth banding
    together in ethnic gangs.
  • 1950s - gangs characterized by
  • ethnic and racial affiliations,
  • control of territory, and
  • greater use of violence
  • against rivals.

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The Historical Context of Gangs
  • 1960s youth gang activities slow.
  • 1970s youth gangs resurface in response to
    economic downturn in inner cities and growing
    drug culture.

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The Historical Context of Gangs
  • 1980s 90s Rapid proliferation
  • of youth gangs, greater incidence
  • in suburbs and small towns,
  • greater mobility and use of
  • more lethal weapons.
  • Modern day gangs racial/ethnic composition
    continues to change, significant differences
    among earlier onset jurisdictions and later
    onset jurisdictions.

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The Prevention, Intervention, Suppression
Continuum
  • Accurate assessment/make necessary distinctions
  • Build Community Support
  • Provide opportunities and supports for positive
    youth development
  • The critical role of schools

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The Prevention, Intervention, Suppression
Continuum
  • The value of community policing
  • Catch 22 correctional
  • facilities as gang factories

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The Prevention, Intervention, Suppression
Continuum
  • Worth repeating provide youth with legitimate
    opportunities for fulfilling basic needs
  • Evaluate progress/make necessary corrections
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