Parents do not realize that children will turn elsewhere to get the love and attention they seek if it is not given in the home. Give your children the attention, praise, and encouragement they desire and deserve. Gang prevention begins in the home with family.
- Unity – The gang unites and becomes one. Everything that is done is done in the name of the gang and for the gang. The gang becomes each member’s family and religion.
- Identity – The individual member loses his identity and becomes one with the gang. He identifies with the gang by wearing colors, tattoos, or brands of the symbol of the gang. His friends are fellow gang members because he trusts no one else.
- Loyalty – The gang is first and foremost in his life, he will do anything to protect the gang integrity and fellow members.
- Reward – The rewards are acceptance, love, identity, status, money, and the feeling of being an important part of a family.
- Violations – The gang imposes a strict set of rules and regulations to which gang members are required to adhere. Punishments include monetary fines, beatings, banishment from the gang, and sometimes – even death. Violation is also a term used to denote a member’s acceptance to and exit from the gang. Violation into the gang may consist of a beating from several gang members, or commission of a particular type of crime. Violation out of the gang, or “V’d out” normally consists of a severe beating by gang members.
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