GANGS IN AMERICA

Gangs in America



Gangs in America

Introduction

Policing Gangs in America describes the assumptions, issues, problems, and events that characterize, shape, and define the police response to gangs in America today. In this research paper, we will examine the study of the criminal justice system and how the system deals with the American crime problem. The police, prosecution, trial courts, prisons and the juvenile justice system will be examined in relation to the control of crime.(Alonso 2004)

Discussion and Analysis

Juvenile gangs exist in some form in all 50 states and in most communities within the United States. First documented in America's colonial ...