Gangs

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Gangs

• Colin Hemond, Ben Lau, Arik Tai, Daniel Wong

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A Broken Place
Arik Tai

• Who The Article deals with Native American youth
  living on a reserve called Hobbema, who have been
  drawn into gang life.
• What Hobbema fell into crime and poverty after
  royalties, paid by oil companies to the citizens
  of Hobbema to gain permission to drill for oil,
  were abused by the youth.
• Where The article takes place in the Native
  American Settlement of Hobbema, Alberta.
• When The article deals with an ongoing problem
  that has its roots in the 70s and 80s
• Why Gangs in Hobbema have their roots with
  irresponsible decisions made by oil companies by
  paying off the citizens for oil, and by the
  tribal elders by granting large sums
  of money to youths who have just
  turned 18.

Leung, C. (2007, September 10). A Broken Place.
Retrieved November 28, 2009, from elibrary
curriculum edition http//elibrary.bigchalk.com/e
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Connections to APS

• Lessons on Psychology can be learned through
  observation on the behavioural patterns exhibited
  by the youth of Hobbema when presented with large
  sums of money.
• Lessons on Sociology can be learned through
  understanding on how Native American peoples may
  band together into street gangs.
• Lessons on Anthropology can be learned by
  understanding the development of Native American
  culture and how it may make them more susceptible
  to exploitation.

Arik Tai
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Think there are no gangs in the suburbs? Think
again Gang activity is moving from the inner
cities to the outer suburbs, where a lack of
awareness creates fertile turf for recruiting new
members.

• Gang activity is moving from inner cities to
  suburbs.
• Police are noticing more graffiti, drug deals,
  gang signs in schools, and other gang activity in
  suburban areas.
• Nationally, in the United States, gang membership
  increased by a third between 2002 and 2007.

Blanchette, A., Estrada, H. M. (2009, May 5).
Think there are no gangs in the suburbs? Think
again Gang activity is moving from the inner
cities to the outer suburbs, where a lack of
awareness creates fertile turf for recruiting new
members. eLibrary. Retrieved November 5, 2009,
from http//elibrary.bigchalk.com/elibweb/curricul
umca/do/document?setsearchgroupid1requestidli
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Colin Hemond
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Connections to APS

• Official Statistics
• Psychology
• Social Group
• Roles
• Phenomenology
• Socialization

Colin Hemond
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Gang Grief

• Increase in gang involvement among youth.
• If there is no criminal activity, then you are
  not a gang.
• Youth join gangs for a sense of belonging or
  think they will be protected.
• The positive portrayal of gangs in the media.

Klein, Melissa. Gang Grief. (2009, March 1)
Current Health 2. Retrieved November 5,
2009,from Elibrary database lthttp//elibrary.bigch
alk.com/gt
Ben Lau
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Connections to APS

• Psychology The mental processes that go through
  a youths mind when deciding to join a gang
• Sociology Roles within the gang and gangs as a
  social group
• Social Science Research Methods Official
  Statistics and Case Study
• Mass Media Glorified images of gangs in music,
  movies, and video games

Gang Presence in Schools 1999
Gang Presence in Schools 2005
Ben Lau
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Gang activity a problem in need of fixing

• Gang activity increasing in Saskatchewan and
  Prince Albert
• Lawrence Joseph, FSIN vice-chief, wants to work
  with the gangs and not against them
• Five year plan to assist youth
• Unusual plan but better and safer for community

Herald, D. (2009, August 23). Gang activity a
problem in need of fixing. eLibrary. Retrieved
November 9, 2009, from http//elibrary.bigchalk.co
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Daniel Wong
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Connections to APS

• Sociology youth are pressured into joining
  gangs
• Conformity youth are following gang leaders
• Gangs activity is increasing

Daniel Wong
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The Way of the Guns

• Who The article focuses on gun violence and the
  murder of Jane Creba.
• What The article discusses the rising problem of
  gun violence.
• Where The article focuses on gun violence in
  Toronto
• When The article was written in 2006 and
• discusses the gun violence from the
• previous year of 2005
• Why The article claims that gun violence
• occurs due to robbery and drugs, although
• the article points out that without guns the
• violence would still exist.

Handelman, S. (2006, January 9). The Way of the
Guns. Retrieved November 28, 2009, from elibrary
curriculum edition http//elibrary.bigchalk.com/e
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Arik Tai
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The Way of the Guns Justification

• Lessons on Psychology can be learned through
  discussing the reasons why perpetrators of gun
  violence would choose to kill people for the
  purpose of gaining money or drugs.
• Lessons on Sociology can be learned through
  understanding how drug and gang cultures can
  drive people to commit gun violence
• Lessons in Anthropology can be learned through
  looking at cases of violence throughout history
  and how they relate to modern day gun violence.

Arik Tai
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Youth gangs as pseudo-governments implications
for violent crime.

• Objective
• To find out what causes gangs to become
  protective agencies
• Method
• 9 years of monthly gang membership official
  statistics.
• Conclusion
• The common theory was that gangs cause youth
  violence.
• Youth violence is the result of increases in gang
  members

Sobel, R S,  Osoba, B J (April 2009). Youth
gangs as pseudo-governments implications for
violent crime.  Southern Economic
Journal, 75, 4. p.996(23). Retrieved November 22,
2009, from Academic OneFile via Gale
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Colin Hemond
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Youth gangs as pseudo-governments implications
for violent crime Justification

• Its a topic that involves youth and brings
  awareness into the classroom.
• Only one page in the
• text book talks about
• gangs

Colin Hemond
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Understanding and Tackling Gang Violence

• Objective The Manchester Projects purpose was
  investigate gang shootings, but shifted to
  investigating issues and topics concerning gangs.
• Method The social science research methods of
  library research and interviews were used.
• Conclusion The results were disappointing as
  the subjects investigated were too broad.

Manchester
Bullock, K., Tilley, N (Feb 2008),
Understanding and tackling gang violence. Crime
Prevention Community Safety. , 10, 1. p.36(12).
Retrieved November 22, 2009, from Academic
OneFile via Gale http//find.galegroup.com/gtx/in
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Ben Lau
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Understanding and Tackling Gang Violence
Justification

• Social science research methods
• Relation to youth
• Fits well in gang section of textbook

Ben Lau
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Ganging up Against Violence

• Objective
• To prevent illegal and violent activities from
  criminal street gang
• Help communities, schools, and police on how to
  deal with gangs
• Method
• Researchers studied how gangs change the social
  world in places in the U.S.
• Conclusion
• Many programs have been created to prevent gangs
• Gang awareness curriculum in schools

Hunzeker, D. (May 1993). Ganging up against
violence.  State Legislatures, 19, n5. p.28(4). Re
trieved November 23, 2009, from Academic
OneFile via Gale
Daniel Wong
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Ganging up Against Violence Justification

• Gangs create social disorder
• Funded programs are created to prevent gangs

Daniel Wong
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Survey Gang Awareness

• Purpose
• To find how aware people are of gang presence in
  their city
• Hypothesis
• Most people will acknowledge the presence of
  gangs, but only some will have witnessed gang
  activity.

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On a scale of 1-5, indicate the amount of gang
presence or activity in your city (1 being no
gang presence and 5 being gang presence in all
neighborhoods of the city).
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If you ever witnessed gangs, gang members, or
gang activities, describe what you witnessed.

• Several interesting responses from
  America,Scotland, and Denmark

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Conclusion

• Our hypothesis proved to be correct.
• Shows that gangs are not present in every part of
  the city
• Sources of error

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5 Questions

• 1) Between 2002 and 2007, gang membership in USA
  increased by ________.
• 2) The Way of the Guns talks about the murder of
  ________ _______.
• 3) The _________ Project was supposed to imitate
  a similar project done in Boston.
• 4) What kind of gang activity have you seen?
• 5) If you were to join a gang, what would be your
  main reason and why?

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