Gangs: Until There's An Answer

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continue. The claim was presented in such a
fashion that, while based on widely accepted ideas, an appeal to the
emotions through sympathy for the injured children was also applied. To
justify their claim, statistics such as 28 children under the age of 10
were murdered between 1987 and 1994, 95% of which were murdered with
firearms and over half the murders were done as drive-byes. Unfortunately,
the means to correct even one of these problems was not included.
Hutson and Anglin do cite what they consider to be the root causes
of gang formation: poverty, stressed families, unemployment,
underemployment, lack of education, racism, and a breakdown of
sociocultural institutions. However, they do not provide any justification
for their "root causes," thus assuming that the reader will agree with
them. I believe that to be an unreasonable assumption considering that
while some people may agree with several of their points, the idea that
many people would agree with all their ideas ...

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