Essay On Suburban Gangs

Across the United States and Europe, suburban gangs are growing as never before,

estimations that in a typical inner city American community of 50,000 or more, there are

200 to 500 gang members. Some even larger organization called super gangs, which have more

than 1,000 members spread over several states, have been known to operate in small town

America. You cant say that any community is insulated from this activity," There's no restriction

on where gang members can live. Gang members living in the suburbs share traits with recruits

in the cities, and many of those factors have been exacerbated by tough economic times, The list

of factors include divorce, separation, physical abuse, sexual abuse and having a parent with

They sometimes imitate big-city gangs, he said, but often make up their own rules.

"A lot of the people in the business call them 'wannabes,' or imitators." It doesn't matter how

much money a kid's have in thier pockets. If there's not positive activities for a young person to

pursue, they'll follow the negative route. Or, you have parents who are working full-time jobs but

don't realize the impact on their child. In some cases the youth feel abandoned and angry, and in

other situations they simply do whatever they want with no daytime supervision.

Suburban gangs tend to sell different drugs-such as Ecstasy, as opposed to crack-cocaine

offered in the cities-and begin with lower levels of violence, But as drug trade grows, so do the

levels of conflict. While suburban gangs tend to be less structured, allowing law enforcement to

sometimes dismiss their threat, suburban gangs can be more dangerous because of their desire to

prove themselves as hardcore.

Gangs offer alternatives to disillusioned youths, allowing them to come together like a

surrogate family. Kids that get into gangs are seeking identity and recognition. a gang