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Making a Gang Member
Behavioral Characteristics
Trivia Questions
Getting out of Gangs
100
Reportedly the youngest age at which gangs recruit members.
What is age eleven?
100
Rarer in comparison to all other types of gang activity.
What is violence?
100
There are 33,000 of these with over 1.4 million members criminally active in the United States.
What are street gangs, motorcycle gangs, and prison gangs?
100
Leaving gangs as a result of growing older, getting married, becoming a parent, and/or finding legitimate employment.
What is "aging out" of a gang?
200
The presence of gang in their neighborhood, growing up in poverty, family history of gang members, history of sexual or physical abuse, lack of success in other areas of life, and access to weapons or drugs.
What are risk factors for teens to join gangs?
200
More common activities of gang members.
What are drinking, drug use, and drug trafficking?
200
The city in which the origins of the gang, The Latin Kings, lie.
What is Chicago?
200
More difficult for this type of gang member to leave.
What is a core member? (Compared to a "fringe" or "peripheral" member)
300
Because of the "surrogate" family they may have not had prior, and because they provide a sense of belonging, power, control, and prestige.
What are the reasons teens join gangs?
300
The primary distributors of illegal drugs on the streets of the United States.
What are street gangs, outlaw motorcycle gangs, and prison gangs?
300
A gang founded in Los Angeles in 1969 founded mainly by 16-year-old Raymond Washington and Stanley Tookie Williams III.
What is the "Crip" Gang?
300
Common phrase used to describe a member's ties to a gang and inability to leave.
What is "blood in, blood out"?