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The North Carolina Governor’s crime commission states that there are 1,446 gangs across the state with a total of 19,000 members. The average age of gang membership is 15 years old (Our Initiatives-Gang Prevention). In the 1980’s national gangs began to shift from just the bad street type local criminals to taking on public arrangements involved with drug trafficking and other illegal activities. As there power and membership increased gangs were being recognized in locations outside of their regular neighborhood (SKEP). Research indicates because of the increasing number of teens joining in gangs, by 2012 there could be more than 41,300 gang members in North Carolina (Our Initiatives-Gang Prevention). Street gangs are affecting teenager’s lives, and to prevent that schools need to provide more gang prevention programs and gang laws should be stricter.

Schools in North Carolina need to provide more gang prevention programs. Surveys indicate that between 14% and 13% of teens and young adults in urban areas join gangs. Gang Resistance Education and Training G.R.E.A.T is a gang prevention program that’s built around school-based, law enforcement officer-instructed classroom curricular, which could really benefit North Carolina and its school systems because G.R.E.A.T’s mission is to help youth develop positive life skills which will help them avoid gang involvement and violent behavior. Better attitude from students toward the police and greater recognition of the consequences of being in a gang are the two out of three program objectives that G.R.E.A.T has accomplished despite the success in telling them the risk factors the third objective lessening gang membership and irresponsible behavior was not met. 5% differ...

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