Criminal Activities
Contributing Factors
Entrepreneurial Activities
Gang Violence
Gangs and Drugs
100
Commit more crimes than non-gang members.
What are gang members?
100
They are typically over turf, for status or revenge.
What are fights?
100
Gangs engage in entrepreneurial activities in which they demonstrate attributes similar to this.
What are genuine business people?
100
The amount of gang-related violent crime has been on the rise in recent years with the increasing availability of these.
What are guns?
100
The majority of this is done individually, not on behalf of the gang.
What is drug dealing?
200
Contrary to popular belief, perpetuated by police and the media, gangs don’t spend most of their time on this.
What are criminal activities?
200
It usually involves heavy alcohol drinking and taking drugs both of which lead to increased violence and crime.
What is partying?
200
Although many of the entrepreneurial activities of gangs are criminal, some are this.
What is perfectly legal.
200
Either stolen or bought by gang members.
What are guns?
200
These people collect most of the profits in gang-run drug operations.
What are distributors?
300
Robberies and shoplifting, and drug dealing.
What are the most common crimes committed by gang members?
300
It leads to crime, such as stealing and drug dealing, becoming a part-time job.
What is unemployment?
300
The sale of drugs, liquor, and stolen property such as guns, auto parts, and electronic equipment.
What are goods?
300
Fear, ambition, frustration, and testing of skill.
What are the factors leading to gang violence?
300
The type of evidence produced by research into the extent of gang involvement in the drug trade.
What is contradictory?
400
Typically the result of fights within gangs and fights between rival gangs.
What is gang-related violent crime?
400
The origin of factors contributing to gang crime.
What are the realities of the gang subculture?
400
Providing protection (e.g. involving extortion) , demolition of property (usually through arson), and prostitution.
What are services?
400
Fights between members of the same gang, or attacks on members of other gangs.
What are the contexts in which the gang violence occurs?
400
Some studies show gangs having control over the sale of drugs here.
What is in their neighborhoods?
500
Most crimes committed by gang members are committed this way.
What is individually?
500
Research shows that the following factors contribute to crime among gangs.
What are fights, partying, and unemployment?
500
Establishing numbers games, setting up gambling rooms, renting old buildings and using them for cockfights.
What is recreation?
500
High-powered semi-automatic weapons.
What are the preferred guns of gang members? (Or, What are guns?)
500
Street-level dealers receive this.
What is very little pay?
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