Week 4: BLOG #4 Family and Community Violence: Globalization and International Gangs

TRIANGLE
In the article, The Global Impact on Gangs, it gives a wide understanding on the importance of gang research. Gangs affect the community at an international level. The growth of gangs is an epidemic, there are gangs worldwide. Gangs have impacted the community with its culture, economy and social control. Gangs have their own culture and they are changing each time. According to the article, the power of rap music has strong influence that culture is in decline, and even more so in subcultures. Also, Muslim youth gang members enforce Sharia in Nigeria, while wearing gold chains, using and selling drugs, and listening to rap music. This has become a type of gang culture among the members. In the recent studies it shows that gangs make high revenue. For instance, in the UN made more than 400 billion annually from drug dealing. This type of crime is linked to the drug cartels. This is a crime for which many are benefiting from. Youths have become a major target for drug cartels. Despite that drug dealing makes a profitable business, the ones who sell it don’t get paid as much. Many decide to sell these narcotics because they are facing extreme poverty and this is the only way out of poverty. Gangs have control over some of its people. Many of the youth that get involved are those who are in poverty and this are the ones more vulnerable to such violence. This social control has become a huge issue because gangs not only control youth that are becoming involved they are also involved and control the real estate market, politics and community organizations.

SQUARE
I agree that the most vulnerable to becoming involved in the gangs are those are in poverty. This is because the gang members take advantage of those who are in need. This has become an international problem and it will be difficult to stop these organizations because they have grown in a rapid rate. They have also become dangerous to the community.

CIRCLE
It was interesting to know that the gangs did not originate in the United States. Since there was a lot of violence by such gangs in California, I believed that it all begun here. According to the article, gangs have formed all over the world whenever and wherever industrialization and related processes drive people into cities. Many of the gangs that were formed in the early 18th century were formed in Hong Kong, China. How can such violence expand worldwide? Can this cycle be stopped?