Name at least five causes for the growth and migration of street gangs
What will be an ideal response?
• Removal of manufacturing plants from the city, leaving behind service jobs that city youth are ill-prepared to handle because of inadequate education and family support systems
• Migration of middle-class minority families from urban centers to more affluent suburbs,
destabilizing the middle-class neighborhoods in the city
• Increased density of segregated minority populations in the city
• Employer discrimination and wage gaps in service jobs in the city
• Loss of federal and state social services in the city
• Increases in the number of youths of gang age, without commensurate increases in community
infrastructure for supervising these youths
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What will be an ideal response?
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A. America B. Africa C. Asia D. Europe
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