Article-1, GANGS

Gangs


The word Gang actually refers to a group of people joined together with common identity. in the earlier days dated back to 19th century the word GANG referred to group of workers in united kingdom and also they are still mean the same what they were, and later the name ,,GANG referred to the group of criminals or the word gangster, that refers to a criminal of an crime organisation(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang),
The concept of gang is not new or latest and this dates back to number of centuries back starting from the formation of pirates in olden days.
The definition for gangs according to the police is gangs being a collection or group of individual where the individual may either be juvenile or an adult, who joint or meets together on an regular basis to decide on a common goal or a purpose and involve in that planned criminal activities.

Classification

If we are to look in to classification of GANG then the this also being reffered to as WANNABES

School-yard Gang

the dissimilarity between different gangs can be categorised based on age, finance, activities and also on the level of Knowledgeableness and refinement. This also being referred to as WANNABES, the gang activities also takes place in some public schools


Scavenger Gangs

As the name itself states ,,, these gangs are not much effective and are least successful out of all the gangs, the gang members are like a sort of low level achievers and they go in to some illegal activities like violent and erotic behaviours, as they are not well organised. these gangs don’t plan anything and go ahead with their activities spontaneously and the crime they do are at a lower level only, however, if the scavenger gangs start organising themselves properly may lead them or promote them to become a Territorial gang


Territorial Gangs

This gangs are well organised compared to Scavengers gang , the purpose of this gangs are social. many may also sell drugs these gangs go with violent behaviour for the defence of their territory , the gang members are mostly attracted towards the gangs due to difficult home lives.


Corporate Gangs

These gangs are most effective ones and the members are far inteligants compared to other gangs and also they plan their work and in a very wel organised manner to achieve their targets, the members have to follow a particular ethics of the organisation and all. The purpose of these gangs marketing drugs are to make maximum gain, these leader of this gang will be an intelligent person, and the boss in these such a gang will be an highly success full career criminal.


Street gangs

This could be defined as an ongoing organisation or group of three or more number of individual performing either formal or informal primary activities like Robbery, homicide or manslaughter, sale or something relating to narcotics and illegal practices, etc...


My View on gangs in accordance with organisation

the word gang to most of the people refers to an illegal group and that is what comes to every one’s mind by hearing the word.and this kind of gangs stated above dont store their knowledge or information in th form of data or in other forms as every thing is just tacit and always these gangs deal with tacit knowledges as the measure of their safty and the secrets maintained. according to me i accept that mostly gangs refers to an organisation or an association doing illegal activities however, it also includes associations working for mankind and human welfare ,,even there are many gangs that do social works that benefits people without harming any one, and some helps to improve the mankind too. for example i myself was and in a gang where my gang consists of five members whose primary professions varies but we join to form a gang to achieve a similar goal and work with an objective of improving the standards of children in slum area by educating them and making them understand the outer world, for which we five work as an organisation, we plan in the way how the children are to be educated, we strategise what kind of knowledge is to be delivered to them, we analyse each and every children to understand their mentality and their grasping power of any information, we also educate them in the means of games, and take them to various places to create a change in their mind. we make a record of all the instances and events and later we again look in to this data’s of information that we have already recorded and use it to build an improved strategy with respect to the teaching procedures for the next batch of children, and this is how my gang works and hope this would have been proper example to support my view and also to show that there are gangs that also stores their information in the form of data and here explicit knowledge is also used.

Reference
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang[accessed on 26th january,2009]
[2]http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4111/nogangs.html(accessed on 30th january 2009)
[3]http://www.safeyouth.org/scripts/facts/gangs.asp(accessed on 4th feb 2009)
[4]http://www.gangwar.com/dynamics.htm(accessed on 7th feb 2009)