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List and explain gang recruitment strategies used in urban gangs.
 
  What will be an ideal response?


(Question #2) List and explain the major organizational characteristics of a typical urban street gang of today. Include any features the gang may have and what types of activities they would be involved in.
 
  What will be an ideal response?


(Question #3) Discuss the evolution of gangs in America and describe how they have changed or remained similar throughout the evolutionary transition.
 
  What will be an ideal response?


(Question #4) Explain how the West Side Story Era of gangs developed in the 1950s.
 
  What will be an ideal response?


(Question #5) Only an integrated, ________ community-oriented effort is likely to have any long-term effect in preventing and controlling gangs in the United States.
 
  Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


(Question #6) The most basic life-course perspective is that gang membership can be thought of as a ________.
 
  Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


(Question #7) Albert Cohens theory of gang ________ states that gang delinquency represents a subcultural and collective solution to the problems faced by lower-class boys.
 
  Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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1)  The answer should include the following strategies:


  • the fraternity type of recruitment

  • the obligation type of recruitment

  • the coercive type of recruitment



2)  The answer should include the following major organizational characteristics:


  • leadership

  • gang recruitment

  • gang migration

  • staying with the gang

  • role expectations and sanctions

  • methods of initiation



3)  The answer should contain the following points:


  • Gangs and Play Activity: The 1920s through the 1940s

  • West Side Story Era: The 1950s

  • Development of the Modern Gang: The 1960s

  • Expansion, Violence, and Criminal Operations: The 1970s and Early 1980s

  • Development of Emerging Gangs: The Late 1980s and 1990s

  • The Present



4)  The answer should contain the following points:


  • The musical West Side Story presented a picture of the 1950s New York youth gangs.

  • The 1950s gangs did not have the lethal weapons that todays gangs have, but they were very capable of violent behavior.

  • Millions of dollars in federal, state, and local money were spent on projects and programs designed to prevent and control the behavior of these fighting gangs.

  • These gangs continued to meet the social needs of adolescent youth.



5)  Answer: multidimensional

6)  Answer: trajectory

7)  Answer: formation
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