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This is especially true in areas where the legitimate authorities are weak or plagued by corruption. It can result in the decreased ability of the government to maintain necessary functions, services, and goods to the public.
3. Acting as surrogate governments -- Transnational maras can completely supplant the legitimate authorities in some regions. In those situations, they establish their own local rules and extort taxes and protection money from the local population.
4. Dominating black market business -- Transnational maras can take over the economic sector by establishing their own businesses, in which case they compete unfairly with legitimate businesses by intimidating them and because they do not have to pay taxes or comply with any of the other restrictions and legal requirements that legitimate businesses must respect.
5. Infiltrating public sector and private sector organizations -- Transnational maras can infiltrate private sector and public sector organizations and even local law enforcement authorities. Once established, they can use their positions and influence to establish political power and achieve...
How do 3rd Generation Gangs differ from the more traditional 2nd Generation Gangs in terms of their relationship with the state government and with regard to lawless zones?
Generally, second generation gangs maintain an antagonistic relationship with state governments. More specifically, second generation gangs maintain criminal enterprises that are continually subject to criminal enforcement efforts by the state through its police authorities. Second generation gangs can maintain control only over areas that are "failed" in the traditional societal sense. However, third generation gangs no longer fear the state authorities. Instead, they seek to infiltrate legitimate established elements of government and to become active in influencing political decisions through the traditional means. Ultimately, they can achieve a situation in which they control the community side by side with official authorities. They expand their control over all areas not under the direct control of legitimate authorities that have resisted their influence.
In fact, when it comes to terrorism, strangers are, generally, the ambit of their activities. There have been some activities, however, that have targeted innocent civilians and the motives and actions, in these cases, have ominously paralleled terrorist stratagems and motivations. A case in kind occurred in December, 2004, when an intercity bus in Honduras, Central America was intercepted and sprayed with machine gunfire and 28 passengers, mainly women and
Peer pressure also causes teens and kids to feel the need to fit in gangs. Peer pressure in the form of coercion, harassment or intimidation, may result to a person joining the gang. The desire to appear cool is also a major cause to many young people joining gangs. The trends and signs and reputations associated with the gangs such as fashion, tattoos and class appear to appeal to
However, educate him or her to be self-confident as few children who do not react as the intimidate desires is not likely to be selected as a fatality. Work with the child's school to deal with the problem as some school employees may be able to offer some sensible recommendation to help the child plus keep records of the events so that you can be comprehensive in your negotiations
On the contrary societies treatment of certain racial and ethnic groups based on the color of skin or the language spoken also contributes greatly to the formation and proliferation of gang violence. Conclusion The purpose of this discussion was to explore race and ethnicity as it pertains to gangs. The research found that from a historical perspective, immigrant communities formed gangs as a reaction to living in a new world and
To summarize, research on gangs has shown the gang problem to be increasing dramatically. Gang members list many reasons for joining a gang, including protection, peer pressure, economic needs, social needs, power, because relatives are members, a lack of parental or community support, and social status. According to the research, gangs tend to exist in greater numbers in low-income populations, and in single-parent households. Additionally, research has shown that while
Criminal Investigations: Changes in Cybercrime The rate at which internet usage is growing is expeditious. The World Wide Web is fast eliminating the physical borders that originally existed between nations and individuals, and rapidly transforming the world into a global village. The conduct of business has been made easier, and so has education, sports, communication, to mention but a few. Thanks to the internet, people located miles away from each other,