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This 15 page paper provides an overview of the issue of at-risk youths opinions about gangs and the impact on their choices. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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likely to participate in criminal or deviant behaviors as adults. Youths with a support mechanism for criminal behavior, including either a family support model for substance abuse, interpersonal violence
and delinquency or gang participation, continue criminal behavior longer than individuals without these support mechanisms even in the presence of punitive or educational models for change. As a result of
these perspectives, it is important to determine the impacts of the opinions of youths regarding gang participation in order to determine whether these opinions shape choices regarding juvenile delinquency, deviance
and gang participation. Because of the influence of the mass media, the music industry, and word-of-mouth information about gangs, children are bombarded with images that could support positive opinions
regarding gangs and gang participation. Positive opinions of gang participation can support problematic choices for at-risk populations, especially at-risk middle school students. Background For
decades, researchers have attempted to determine the underlying reasons for juvenile delinquencies. Some theorists have argued, for example, that poverty and familial status is a determinant of delinquency, while
others have asserted that educational experiences and a lack of religious direction in the lives of modern adolescents are factors that impact whether children turn to delinquency and crime.
Woodson (2001) presents some startling statistics about the world into which American babies are being born in these opening years of the 21st century. He refers to it as
an "epidemic of family dissolution" (p. 269) and sites statistics that report: fifty-eight out of every hundred children are born into broken families. In some inner-city neighborhoods, this
ratio is as high as eighty per hundred births. Meanwhile, social research continues to produce evidence of the debilitating impacts of this trend (p. 269). That social research has
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