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A 20 page paper that offers chapter summaries on the text Youth Gangs in American Society by Randell G. Shelden, Sharon K. Tracy and William B. Brown. The writer summarizes the 10 chapter text with 2 page summaries of each chapter. No additional sources cited.
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gangs were part of the social landscape in fourteenth and fifteenth century Europe, as well as in colonial America. However, youth gangs are not evident in American history to any
significant degree until the nineteenth century and their emergency can be understood as a social reaction to governmental policies that promoted the "social disorganization in Chicago, the deportation of immigrants
in Southern California during the Great Depression and police brutality in Watts during the 1960s," among other policies (Sheldon, Tracy and Brown 36)(all subsequent page citations refer to this source).
In the early sections of this chapter, the authors describe the growth of gang activity in the 1980s, focusing on the cities of Los Angeles, Milwaukee and Chicago. This
offers insight into the specifics of gang behavior, as the authors also link the development of gang in each city with changing social conditions in each of these urban
environments. The second point made in this chapter is that public perception of youth gangs is largely shaped by the mass media, which typically does little to distinguish fact
from fiction in their coverage of this topic. A particularly revealing point in this part of the chapter is how common stereotypes differ from the reality of youth gangs.
The third point turns to scholarship on youth gangs and the fact that there is no consensus as to the definition of what precisely constitutes a youth gang. They point
out the lack of consensus that surrounds how to define "gangs and gang-related crime," and attribute this at least in part to "widely accepted stereotypes of gangs" (24). The fourth
point addressed in this chapter pertains to the diversity of youth gangs, that is, how many are currently active. This leads into the final point, which describes how gangs migrate.
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