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8 pages in length. Juvenile threats are manifested in myriad ways from the seemingly innocuous act of graffiti to the heinous and arbitrary aspect of drive-by shootings. The extent to which juvenile delinquency and gang violence is present in every community in one fashion or another is both grand and far-reaching; that Los Angeles reflects a particularly concentrated incidence level of these juvenile threats speaks to the ongoing struggle this southern California city continues to identify, address and try to prevent. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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is present in every community in one fashion or another is both grand and far-reaching; that Los Angeles reflects a particularly concentrated incidence level of these juvenile threats speaks to
the ongoing struggle this southern California city continues to identify, address and try to prevent. "There are multiple causal pathways to delinquency. Psychological, familial, sociological, and community factors
may interact in various ways to produce such behavior. These factors are dynamic and interactional in nature...Treating all delinquents with the same set of intervention techniques and resources is
doomed to partial success at best" (Sullivan et al, 1995, p. 1). II. LOS ANGELES California, like so many other states across
the nation, has experienced exponential growth of juvenile delinquency and gang activity as the direct result of a cultural migration taking place over the last few decades. Sharing the
dubious honor with Chicago of having the highest number of gang-related homicides (six hundred and fifty-five in 2004), Los Angeles is none too proud to tout such a statistic in
the ever-present struggle against juvenile threat (Egley et al, 2004). To understand the prevalence of youth gang activity in Los Angeles is to
realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous subpopulation is that of looking out for number one by whatever means necessary. Such groups - formed
mostly of undisciplined, morally-deprived and angry young people - actually provide wayward youth with a sense of power and belonging, something they do not receive from within their own family
structures. Yet this type of extended family does not nurture goodness or benevolence; rather, it encourages violence and mayhem as a means by which to assert its independence and
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