Crack Cocaine Gangs
An Analysis Of The Long-run Consequences Of Gang Involvement …
With the emergence of Acorporate@ gangs during the crack–cocaine epidemic of the late 1980=s, an increasing number of youths were exposed to previously unparalleled risk of injury, death, and … Return Document
Massive gang Takedown Stuns Denver gangs
Massive gang takedown stuns denver gangs department of justice and metro gang task force disrupt rolling 30s crips and tre tre crips over 50 gang members, associates and their sources of supply indicted on crack and cocaine distribution or … Fetch Doc
Studies Of The Youth Gangs, Drugs, And Violence Connection
Advent of crack cocaine. In the 1960’s and 1970’s, these gangs fought over pride or turf in hand-to-hand conflicts, sometimes using zip guns (homemade, single-shot … View Document
ANALYZING GROUPS
In terms of crime, autonomous female gangs commit less crime than their male counter-parts, indicating gender differences in gang delinquency. And while crack cocaine may have … View Doc
Midwest High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area
Tors, including Asian stre et gangs, becoming active in crack cocaine distribution, which was typically controlled by African American criminal groups. … Get Content Here
Gangs 101
Facts About Gangs. 31,000 Gangs in US 850,000 Gang Members in US Gang Members Age Range 12 to 24 +/- 94% Male Females in Over 1/3 of Gangs Gangs & Crime. Primary Distributors of Illegal Drugs in US Dominant Retail Level Distributors of Crack, Cocaine, PCP in Virginia Control and Expansion of … Access This Document
Street Organization
And then crack hit the streets. Although gangs were organized and politicized before the advent of crack cocaine, gangs lacked some unifying purpose. … Doc Retrieval
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES MEASURING THE IMPACT OF CRACK …
MEASURING THE IMPACT OF CRACK COCAINE First, street gangs, which already controlled outdoor spaces, became the logical sellers of crack (Venkatesh and Levitt 2000). Gang violence, primarily as a means of 9 A gram weighs about as much as a dime. 10 Crack differs from freebase cocaine because the … Read Here
INTER AMERICAN COOPERATION IN DEALING WITH CRIMINAL GANGS
The larger gangs controlled drug distributions in the city drug markets; they were motivated to move into adjourning communities to generate additional income from the sale of powder and crack cocaine. Large urban gangs generated millions of dollars from trafficking in illicit drugs in urban and … Fetch Document
How Detroit gang Got To New Castle
Whether they were staying in crack houses taken over by the gangs or fending for themselves is one of the case's enduring mysteries. None was found with crack or cocaine, Chief Sansone said. … Doc Retrieval
RESEARCH NOTE LEGITIMATING DRUG USE: A NOTE ON THE IMPACT OF …
gangs in the 1980s (Curry, Ball, and Decker 1996; Huff 1991; Klein 1995) coincided with the explosion of crack cocaine sales in Ameri- … Access Doc
Menacing Or Mimicking? Realities Of Youth Gangs
The “crack cocaine epidemic.” The gangs-drugs-violence myth was revived again last year in the broadcast media (Johnson, 2006), to help explain homicide increases. … Read Here
SLINGING DOPE: THE ROLE OF GANGS AND GANG MEMBERS IN DRUG SAI,ES*
Has received as much attention as the role of gangs in drug sales. Because street gangs and ~crack" cocaine emerged at about the … Access Content
Northeast Gang Information System: Description Of The System …
Ing gang organization and recruitment, backgrounds of youths recruited into gangs, in- volvement of local gangs in developing crack cocaine markets, and police response to the … Doc Retrieval
DRUG TRAFFICKING IN THE UNITED STATES
Crack cocaine usage, which initially drove these rates, has similarly stabilized, and shows some indications of declining although it also remains at a high level. Street gangs, such as the Crips and the Bloods, and criminal groups of ethnic Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, and Jamaicans dominate the … Retrieve Content
Federal Criminal Defense Lawyers Wednesday, August 10, 2011 …
The intent to distribute cocaine, crack cocaine, and marijuana. The arrests, indictments, and seizures the poison of drugs, gangs, and violence. We who police the streets and prosecute … Doc Retrieval
Federal Crime Control Issues In The 111th Congress
As disparities in crack and powder cocaine sentencing as well as early prison release. Gangs ..6 … Document Retrieval
Street Baptism, Machismo And Inner-City Street Culture
Angeles— which have flourished in the era of deindustrialization and crack cocaine— draw upon a variety of rituals to reinforce these systems of classification, making the actions of everyday life more meaningful. The history and context of youth gangs … Return Doc
Section IV: Qualitative Model To Explain The Recent Decline …
Gangs are taken over by violent leaders and gang members become violent. • Time has passed since the peak of the crack cocaine epidemic. Juveniles and youth have not seen much violence … Read Document