Youth Gangs

Question 1

What theories support Indigenous crime in Canada?

Answer 1

Strain, normlessness, anomie
- feeling of being lost (from a loss of values, identity)

Question 2

2 complexities of indigenous youth crime

Answer 2

1. shared experienced of indigenous
   - historical, cultural, social, economic defined by their relations with settlers
   - racism, broken treaties, assimilation
2. Intergenerational trauma
   - poverty, unemploymoyment, no education, family violence, substance use, poor health, overrep in CJS, racism

Question 3

what is marginalization

Answer 3

exclusion of certain groups from mainstream society who routinley suffer from inequalities
-tough on crime = short term solutions
- history = marginalize indigenosu youth

Question 4

4 indigenous causes of indigenous youth crime/gangs

Answer 4

1. identity/risk protective factors
   -need for belonging, protection and identity = attraction to gangs
   - youth take responsibility for their lives in a way that fails them
2. genetic influences
   - mood disorders, behavioural problems
   - ADHD
3. psychological influences
   -how people percieve themselves
   -classifications; stereotypical of who is or not criminal
4. socio-cultural influences
   -failure of social control behaviours that conforms to norms
   peer difficultires=gangs for desire of belonging and social identity

Question 5

why indigenous youth join gangs

Answer 5

• identity
  -replace family
  -provide money
  -protection
  -recruitment by family

Question 6

what are risk factors

Answer 6

• young people who move toward problems that threaten their future
• social structural issues: poverty, disadvantage, oppression
  as risk =defecit

Question 7

What are risk protective factors

Answer 7

• elements in a young persons life that offer insulation against negative influences
• healthy family model
• positive role model
• pro-social friends
  -positive activities
• positive education experiences