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Due in large part to its steadily high population and rich history, New York City has played host to various criminal organizations, gangs, mafias, and syndicates. The following is a list of these groups, past and present. Inactive. 19th Street Gang (1870s) Albanian Mafia. Albanian Boys (1990s) Rudaj Organization (1993-2004)
As a result, there are several New York City gangs and hoods located in different regions throughout the Bronx, including the South Bronx, East Bronx, and Uptown’s North Bronx region. New York City Hoods: Manhattan. The streets of Manhattan have undergone significant changes, particularly in the gentrified communities.
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Social disorganization theorists suggest that location matters, and crime is a response to poor neighborhood conditions (Bursik and Grasmick 1993; Sampson et al. 2002; Shaw and McKay 1942). Neighborhood violence is often related to community-level risk factors such as poverty, poor housing conditions, limited access to services, and high unemployme...
The participants spoke from their lived experiences when talking about the police. They had widespread law enforcement contact, with nine-in-ten having ever been arrested, and 93% having been stopped by the police in the last 2 years—reflecting recent reports showing that young Black and Latino males continue to be targets of an enormously dispropo...
Participants had frequent interactions with the police—nearly all of them negative. They reported being over-policed for minor infractions, discriminated against because of their race and gang affiliation, and regularly harassed.
As in most gang studies, this research found that most of the participants came from extreme marginality and relative deprivation—all forms of structural violence (Galtung 1969). Over three-quarters of the participants lived in New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) developments, and most struggled with having enough money to support themselves an...
The young gang members in this study came from high poverty neighborhoods, and recent research has shown that high poverty concentration is associated with increased risk of youth dying from firearms (Barrett et al. 2021). Given the levels of violence, the perceived lack of protection from the police in these communities, and a scarcity of economic...
With their physical safety threatened and their inability to access the mainstream economy for basic needs, many also turned to gangs to survive—physically (protection), economically (money), and emotionally (love and brotherhood). All these conditions stemmed in part from the “multiple marginality” (Vigil 2002) that they, their families, and their...
Contrary to oft-presented media representations of gangs as exclusively negative forces and sources of violence, for the study participants, gangs provided a well of support, positivity, and protection for their members and the larger community. The youth in the study were aware that even the word “gang” conjures up negative ideas for many people, ...
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