"Understanding and Responding to Youth Gangs: A Juvenile Corrections Approach"

"Understanding and Responding to Youth Gangs: A Juvenile Corrections Approach" Youth gangs are very attractive to youths in the inner-cities of America. These gangs are usually very corrupt and violent. What many people do not realize is that these gangs are having a large impact on not only the youth of America, but this country in general. A youth gang is a group of adolescents, primarily twelve to eighteen years old, whose members describe themselves …

…in order to fit in and to gain social status among their peers. Many times youths have personal problems at home so they turn to gangs because they feel that they will provide solutions to these same problems. If parents were to recognize some of the issues that their children have, we may find less youths in gangs. It is society's responsibility to embrace these children and to focus on them and not the gangs.