Gangs

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and my homeboy (who's Latino) just
because we weren't white.
Another one would belong to the punks. Which I do not have a
problem with. The only two punk gangs I know of, do not call themselves
"Gangs" but they call themselves a crew. They call themselves CFH,
(Cowboys From Hell) and the other one is the Martians.
A lot of the gang members come from broken homes, or something is
wrong. So the kids end up in gangs doing drugs, drinking, smoking,
committing crimes, and getting into violence. Some of us consider our
gang "family." Some of the gangs actually do have real families in them.
There's the problem of joining gangs. I got jumped into my gang.
But that's one of the most common ways. The other ways are to have sex
with someone who's already in it. Or you can get walked in. Some other
ways which are sick and twisted that I've heard of are; the leader holds a
knife to the newcomers throat. If the leader thinks the newcomer is lying
he can slit his ...

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had some relative in some gang (44 percent
of the men and 59 percent of the women). It is true that young members
were significantly more likely than older ones to have a relative. It is
true that a fraction (less than 20 percent) of the gang members came from
what seem to be "gang families"-with three or more relatives in a gang in
either neighborhood. Rather than "inheritance" being the norm, most
relatives were brothers and cousins and uncles rather than parents.
No matter what particular social network led the member to the
gang, one thing is clear: the gangs' initiation procedures became far more
ritualized. By the time the younger cliques were active, most of the ...

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