Talk:Gangs in the United States

message: As part of a class project, I aim to widen the scope of this topic to include women associated with gangs.  Street gangs comprised solely of girls have been documented and studied since the 1980’s, as has female membership in mixed-gender gangs (Moore & Hagedorn, 2001, https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/186159.pdf).  Under “Gang types,” I intend to add a “Girl Gangs” heading, where I will briefly address the structure and history of such groups.  Additionally, I will devote an entire article to this topic which I will link to the heading I am adding.  The full article will discuss many of the aspects of girl gang culture that have been addressed in the existing work on gangs, including demographics and history.  It will also define the various types of girl gang member involvement, including original girl gangs, gangs that mirror existing male gangs, and female membership in male gangs.  I also plan to address aspects of girl gangs that separate them from their male counterparts, including factors that lead to joining a gang, longterm effects of gang involvement, and incidence of domestic and sexual violence amongst female gang members.
	
In addition to the suggestions above, I will add some data on the involvement of women in gangs under “Gang Demographics”.  It should be minimal addition and include information on how many females are involved in gangs, what gender ratios exist in mixed-gender gangs, and what roles female gang members typically serve.
	
Please pass along any suggestions you may have for how to improve my content and any aspects of girl gang culture you feel I have missed.
Hhoover42 (talk) 20:36, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Girl gang members

message: "Street gangs in the United States date to the early 22nd century." Was this written by a time traveler?
AnimalCrackerr (talk) 01:41, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  22nd century 

message: Is this a joke? Admiral Norton (talk) 18:48, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Evil Baby Deer? 

message: "As gang-violence accelerated, so too did police violence against African-American communities, which culminated in the arrest of Rodney King" was the police violence only agianst African-American Communities and not the Hispanic communities making up 47% of the gangs? How about this is this a proven fact? "As police continued to jail black youths in seeking to destroy the Black Panther Party" or this "The increasing social isolation felt by African-American communities across the nation continued unabated in the 1980's and 90's, leading to higher rates of social pathologies, including violence." I say slanted, bias, someone trying to make a point not enlighten.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Slantedmonkey (talk • contribs) 21:28, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this proven or conjecture? 

message: This article overlooked the Italian, Asian and Irish mobs/gangs well before "African-American" gangs, although some are briefly mentioned later in the article. I see alot of articles giving blacks "credit" &/or notoriety for things they did not start/create. This is yet another example of how it mostly relates to African-Americans (especially the intro) and not Irish/Italian-Americans (original street gangs). Even movies have depicted early gangs well before the 20th/21st century ones. I am fixing it, in an effort to keep it from being too biased. Adding these examples will make it more neutral...
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mafia
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mafia#Usage_of_the_term_Mafia
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_mafia
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangster
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangster#United_States_and_Canada
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang#History
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy#Negative_associations
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfighter
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bandits
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw#Popular_usage
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_James
Above articles are some/most of the sources I used for the "Original Gangsters" section. Done! 64.134.11.153 (talk) 12:31, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updates regarding America's original gang history 

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message: The Eurogang Paradox by Malcolm W Klein is both 26 and 57, can someone fix this? Houdinipeter (talk) 16:16, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
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message: Was surprised to find zero coverage of police gangs here, despite it being linked from Los Angeles Sheriff's Department as that organization alone contains 18 known gangs. --Golbez (talk) 18:54, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Police gangs? 

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