The Subculture of Street Gangs Such as the "Rattlers" in Albany, GA

You can imagine yourself as part of a group or lifestyle, and now you can imagine that you are not comfortable. Perhaps some people think that you are strange, but they are the ones you understand. While others want to participate, many people think this is dangerous. Whatever its reason, you still think I am a member of society. As you get older you will find that many people have different backgrounds and may even behave differently. When people feel the need for love and respect, they may forget their values ​​and ethics.

Albert Cohen's claim is that class-based frustration is the origin of subculture. Certain social groups have criminal cultures, and individuals participate in gangs and understand the value of lagging subcultures. Illegal subculture has opposite value to mainstream culture. This pressure arises from low economic situation, bad relationship of parents, poor school standards, and lack of promise to succeed in the future. The antisocial structure of the city also influenced why men and women joined the gang.

Both Croall (1998) and Newburn (2007) argue that American subculture theory comes from the Chicago school's work on Chicago culture, street life, criminal organization in the 1930s. A specific subculture of society has various values ​​and attitudes that contribute to crime and violence. Influential theorists such as Edwin Sutherland (1937) suggest young people 's subculture by suggesting that crime is a learning behavior occurring in a particular group with different behavior, attitudes, pressure of colleague group pressure It aims to explain. Nature and Development He further pointed out that those who were exposed to crimes above the non-criminal value are more likely to adopt the criminal value learned through the discriminative association process. This includes rationalization techniques related to crime, motivation, drive, and crime. The correlation of this difference may differ in frequency, duration, priority, and intensity.