World's Most Dangerous Gang Case Study

World’s Most Dangerous Gang
A. The first term to be discussed is Group(43). States by Henslin as “Set of people who interact on the basis of shared expectations and who possess some degree of identity”(145).
A part of being in MS 13 is that all people involved are one group. They all follow the same “rules” and respect the same leader. In parts of the documentary we watched as a class, we have seen how MS 13 is running in some sorts like a business. Everyone in MS 13 has a job and duty to fulfill, and there are consequences for not following the guidelines. Even though MS 13 members are extremely dangerous people, they still show community and compassion toward one another. Also, the group has to be kept by itself in some situations, for example,

The first one is how everyone who is a member of MS 13 has a job to carry out. The job probably involves dealing drugs of some soft, but that has to start somewhere. There has to be someone making the drugs, figuring out where and how to get the materials, and then the next person sells them for a profit. The second is there are many different rules in MS 13. If these rules are not abided by you will be killed. Every single person who is a member of MS 13 knows the rules and knows how to follow them. I would assume there are so many rules in place because of the large amount of people and MS 13 has a status to uphold in the streets. They can’t have members of their group doing things that would disrespect or make the group look bad. The third and final is that there has to be many different people in the chain of command. Even if there is only one leader, the group is so giant that there would be no other option than to have other people in charge. Even though in the documentary we don’t get to meet any of the leaders that we know of, it would be safe to assume there is probably one or two people in charge in an area. Those people more than likely answer to the person at the very top. In a sense MS 13 is a lot like the government with providing jobs and have a system of

To begin members of MS 13 often are heavily tattooed. The tattoos are often on their chest, neck and arms. They represent that a member is from gang MS 13 but they also tell the members story. In the video we watched a segment while the crew was in the prisons and one person said that the tattoos tell their story for others to see. Also it isn’t rare to see members with tattoos on their faces to represent the gang. It is important for them to have tattoos that show they are members of MS 13 when they are prison, to warn other prisoners to stay away from them. The next way that the term relates to body language is how the gang has their own sign language. Often the so called sign language is just gestures with the member’s hands on their face or chest representing that they are from the gang. The third and final example is graffiti. No graffiti is not a body language, however it does represent the gang and their territories. The graffiti allows for other gangs to be warned they are in MS territory. Overall I don’t think it is a bad thing that the gang has tattoos, hand gestures, and graffiti because it allows people know who they are in contact. They are not trying to deceive people into thinking they aren’t members of the world most dangerous