Gang Members Come From Unstable Households?

There exists a wide range of reasons as to why individuals join gangs. Reasons in this case could include but are not limited to the need for protection, economic gain, peer pressure as well as familial instability. Ritter and Lampkin (2012) note that people enlist as gang members for different reasons "but it is usually because the gang offers something the individual is lacking." According to the authors, young adults could end up enlisting as gang members "because they lack the feeling of belonging to a group or do not feel loved because of their unstable home life" (Ritter and Lampkin, 2012). In that regard, such individuals see the gang as a second home where they can freely interact with other members of the gang. Further, when it comes to broken homes, the authors in this case note that absentia parents (in most cases...
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