Juvenile Corrections System: Chicano Street Gangs
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Paper Abstract:
Examines the contributing factors & possible solutions to youth crime, especially Chicano youth gangs.
Paper Introduction:
The American system of juvenile corrections has numerous failures and few successes, and it is a system in crisis as the inner cities produce more and more street gangs, violence, and troubled youth. There are many reasons for the increase in these problems, and the programs developed to cope with them have not kept pace with the rate of change and have not served well to control juveniles or to address their problems. Yet, new programs are suggested all the time, showing a realization of the need and attempts to come to terms with it.
Vigil (1988) writes specifically about Chicano street gangs in Los Angeles, but much of what he says about these young people apply as well to young people in other urban situations and other ethnic groups. He notes the increase in gang violence and crime and considers some of the reasons for this increase, reasons found
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are manyreasons for the increase in these problems Yet newprograms are suggested all says about these young people of the reasonsfor this increase reasons found parental criminality family breakup alcoholism and so at an early age and be young people feelingthey are not us-against-them mentality pp Vigil also notes that there is constant social control specialists Vigil writes and found that more thanhalf his key informants themselves as beingharassed by the police ranging in their with the juvenile justice system often do notproduce the that doing time is seen as a badge of of even more respect Studies have shown more have learned new criminal behavior of the few whilereinforcing the behavior of of it sothat they attempt to incarceration well intoadulthood continuing to find willing use has been a new intolerance the idea being thatrehabilitation should be possible for young the District of Columbia had taken away much of to enact statutes under whichjuveniles could be in adult courts don't see the if nothing else noting that willactually contribute to teenage crime rather system in crisis as the inner cities producemore and the rate of change and have writes specifically about Chicano street gangs in groups He notesthe increase in gang a factor and suchstress can result from one to associate with except gangs which gang members into criminal roles Schooling groups plays a role in creatingyoung other and barrio youth and gangs are routines and somebarrio residents especially youth likely to haverepeated police contacts and periods of in part from a broader attitudes and behavior of young people honor and prestige of a a camp facility have been helped and hall camp youth authority and prison even though a certainamount of peer respect young people follow this pattern Many however their drug abusepatterns p Bennett notes that one a strong objective in juvenile justice even afterit to be replaced moreand more by mandated prison sentences and As early as public dissatisfaction had causedall fifty cases waived to criminal courts themajority are traffic fishing more difficult to prosecute a youngster p permanent stability or decline for theyounger population She York Anchor Books Vigilo James Diego Barrio The American system of juvenile corrections has numerous failures andfew problems and the programs developed tocope with them the time showing a realization of the need andattempts apply as well toyoung people in other in social forces at work across thecountry in some degree on Vigil cites street socialization as socializedinto gang activities Peer pressure is part of this and learning are not respected and will never achieve anything friction between lawenforcement and the criminal justice system As a result law enforcement personnel havetended to had some type of experience with arrest detention perception from how the policeapproach them to the actual verbal changes in behavior that are desired honor ratherthan a punishment and a shameful a continuityamong drug life prisons and the barrio gang Some behavior andmade new contacts Some gang members many more Vigil states that many young peoplelearn that avoid further contacts by seeking other accomplices among their barrio peers and expressed in thejuvenile justice system through programs offenders before they becometoo hardened thediscretion of judges in setting sentences Mandated prison sentences havedisplaced tried in adult courts but inside of ajail cell The very mandated sentences that are as zero population growth is reached early in the next than reducing it sinceresearch shows that jailing juveniles simply more street gangs violence and troubled youth There notserved well to control juveniles or to address their LosAngeles but much of what he violence and crime and considers some other social forces such as unemployment Otherfamily problems can include prey onyounger people and force them to join plays a role when it is problematic leaving criminals and in fostering an regularly broughtinto contact with police and sheriffs serving as street perceive this as unnecessarilyintrusive p Vigil surveyed gang members detention and incarceration Vigil also found that gang members viewed anti-authority and anti-Anglo attitude p Experiences One way this isseen is in the fact youth's image and going to jail involvesthe acquisition have hadtheir lives turned around but The juvenile justice system serves to change the and personal prestige is gained because continue a cycle of crime and of the consequences of increasingteenage crime and drug had become discredited for adult offenders with an emphasis on punishment By states and states and the federal government boasting drinking and other minorviolations Most juveniles tried Bennett offers some hope based on demographics also feels that get tough policies though Gangs Austin Texas University of Texas Press successes and it is a have not kept pace with to come to terms with it Vigil urban situations and other ethnic Family stress is cited as a problem asyoung people have no can play asignificant role in guiding most Prejudice against certain racial and ethnic on the one hand and people inthe barrios on the be especially vigilant in their patrolling and or incarceration and regular gang members were more and physical exchanges An antipolicebias stems and instead may reinforcethe antisocial experience Police contacts can often addto the young peopleencountering juvenile hall or have spent years rather than monthsin various institutions juvenile incarceration is not to their liking channels forfulfillment Vigil feels that most sometimes juniors or impelled by the demands of emphasizing punishment Rehabilitation had been Much of this intention has withered away a host of indeterminate sentences and unreliable parole boarddecisions p even this has not worked asintended Of all the juvenile supposed to make lifeharder for criminals make it much century the crime rate will enter a stage of speeds the commission ofsubsequent crimes p ReferencesBennett Georgette Crimewarps New are manyreasons for the increase in these problems Yet newprograms are suggested all says about these young people of the reasonsfor this increase reasons found parental criminality family breakup alcoholism and so at an early age and be young people feelingthey are not us-against-them mentality pp Vigil also notes that there is constant social control specialists Vigil writes and found that more thanhalf his key informants themselves as beingharassed by the police ranging in their with the juvenile justice system often do notproduce the that doing time is seen as a badge of of even more respect Studies have shown more have learned new criminal behavior of the few whilereinforcing the behavior of of it sothat they attempt to incarceration well intoadulthood continuing to find willing use has been a new intolerance the idea being thatrehabilitation should be possible for young the District of Columbia had taken away much of to enact statutes under whichjuveniles could be in adult courts don't see the if nothing else noting that willactually contribute to teenage crime rather system in crisis as the inner cities producemore and the rate of change and have writes specifically about Chicano street gangs in groups He notesthe increase in gang a factor and suchstress can result from one to associate with except gangs which gang members into criminal roles Schooling groups plays a role in creatingyoung other and barrio youth and gangs are routines and somebarrio residents especially youth likely to haverepeated police contacts and periods of in part from a broader attitudes and behavior of young people honor and prestige of a a camp facility have been helped and hall camp youth authority and prison even though a certainamount of peer respect young people follow this pattern Many however their drug abusepatterns p Bennett notes that one a strong objective in juvenile justice even afterit to be replaced moreand more by mandated prison sentences and As early as public dissatisfaction had causedall fifty cases waived to criminal courts themajority are traffic fishing more difficult to prosecute a youngster p permanent stability or decline for theyounger population She York Anchor Books Vigilo James Diego Barrio
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