Teenage delinquency

Running Head : TEENAGE DELINQUENCY

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Teenage Delinquency

Abstract

Juvenile delinquency problem has a long shadow which is reflected globally . This is because the rates in teenage delinquency are on the increase . There are several issues that concern juvenile delinquency activities and juvenile gang is one of them . Violence related to gang has become a new phenomenon at the same time raising a lot of interest in this area of study . This will focus on juvenile gangs addressing the main problem behind it

including current policies and practices and lastly the proposed future directions for this issue of juvenile gang

Introduction

Today , it is uncommon to hear from the media as well as movies addressing young people on the issue of alcohol , drugs and sexuality among many other controversial issues . Young crime is a major problem worldwide and one of the major youth problems concerns juvenile gang which have continued to expand into small and medium-sized cities carrying out various gang increased gang visibility and accelerating fear in relation to juvenile crime that has made this area of to be my main area of discussion

In addition , there seem to be a relationship between gang groups and the various crimes that are committed globally and these members often tend to be a lot more violent than the rest of the youth who may not be in any gang group . The recent generation 's gang members are more violent as compared with the past generation and this is because the activities that these gang members have been participating in have been changing for sometime now since these gang members have resulted into engaging in rather more serious crimes such as firearms use and drug-related use This alarming trend of juvenile gangs is increasingly gaining its stronghold in United States

The first juvenile gangs that existed in United States were located in New-York which was also primarily Irish . The first groups of gang were discovered at green-grocery speakeasies that carried out the activities of selling booze at the back of the building and greens were sold at the front . There was also the Forty Thieves who existed from around 1920 to the period during the civil war . This was a subgroup consisting of juveniles that were recruited from the main group . Roach guards plug uglies , Dead Rabbits , Shirt Tails , Kerryonians and Chickesters were also gangs that existed in the distant

Others include American guards , True blue Americans , Bowery Boys and Atlantic Guards . There were also the potashes , Hudson Dusters and the Gophers who were located in the Middle West side . The other cities in United States which had gang groups apart from New York include Boston Phil and Chicago . The 1950s saw a shook up in the generation with the west side story in which street bopping and fighting was the main of the day

In 1960s there was political activism , drug activity and social betterment and the police did not mind much on issues relating...