Question 1

Match each term with its description.
-Fagan and others

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-Fagan and...

Question 2

Explain the difference between the gangs of the 1950s and the supergangs of the 1960s.

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Question 3

Describe the three different types of gang leadership and how it applies to modern-day gangs.

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Question 4

Why were gangs in the 1980s becoming increasingly adult oriented?

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Question 5

Which of the following gangs would someone likely belong to if he were living in L. A., was very organized, had an identifiable leadership, was involved heavily in Heroin trafficking, and was tied closely to social and economic life?

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- Most likely the person would be a member of an Asian gang.
• Not known as the largest or most prominent, but is involved in some of the worst gang violence.
• Chinese gangs are closely tied to the social and economic life of their rapidly developing economically robust communities.
• A study of Vietnamese youth gangs in Southern California found that these youths experience much marginality but attained the American dream by robbing Vietnamese families of large amounts of cash that such families keep at home.

Question 6

Scenario: You decide to join a gang that many of your friends belong to. Your friends advise you not to talk to any of the gang members wearing a black bandana until you earn your blue bandana.
They tell you that you can talk to the members with blue bandanas as long as they invite you to first. They then tell you that the most important thing to remember is that you never come within 5 feet of the one person who wears the Red bandana or you will be severely punished.
Which of Jankowski's three types of leadership would the gang most closely resemble?

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Quiz 13: Juvenile Gangs

Match each term with its description. -Fagan and others

Explain the difference between the gangs of the 1950s and the supergangs of the 1960s.

Describe the three different types of gang leadership and how it applies to modern-day gangs.

Why were gangs in the 1980s becoming increasingly adult oriented?

Which of the following gangs would someone likely belong to if he were living in L. A., was very organized, had an identifiable leadership, was involved heavily in Heroin trafficking, and was tied closely to social and economic life?