Gang violence only takes place in big, urbanized, poverty stricken, low class neighborhoods and does not have any effect on middle or upper class areas; or does it? The Mall of America shooting exemplifies how gang violence can erupt anywhere and that no part of society is immune to this problem. As the mall employee in the article states, “you just can’t be safe anywhere. Every time you turn around someone is being shot, …showed first 75 words of 1175 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1175 total…acts of deviance. Gender and masculinity are two concepts that help explain why some crimes are committed. Gender relates to crime in that males account for over 90% of all violent crimes ` . labling theory can be Once the label of “criminal” was obtained at the age of eleven, the primary act of deviance, it can be difficult to reject. learned how to be criminal throughout their adolescence by the associating themselves with criminal process of communicationand