Critical Thinking

1. Identify the main issues in this article (6 marks).

There is the gang members often upper secondary schoolboys, would rope in their schoolmates by glamorizing gang life, and getting the younger boys to idolize them and wanting to be like them. They then get these young ones to join them and make use of the to do the dirty jobs like getting into random fight (Anwar, December 1, 2012).

2. Assuming you are part of the counseling team for the Police Force, what underlying social issues would you uncover as you work with youths at risk? (10 marks)

According to (Oakes et al., n.d.) ‘’students having little or no financial resources’’. As a youth when they go work for others they would not got much pay, or even the boss not going to pay them. Some employees would not employee youth, because in a big company they wanted high education level or experiences people work for them. They could not put that much risk on a youth, this must be wasting their time and wasting their resource.

Furthermore, according to (Top Tenz, 2012, paragraph 4) ‘’violence in schools’’. There are 284 were killed by school violence, at some of the countries there are allowed keep some of the weapon like gun or knife. If they parents was a gun collection the children will bring it to school to hurt someone. When youths joined in a gangs they will be more violence to the younger child, they will get into a fight and they did not knew how to control themselves and this will consider murdered.

3. What are some of the reasons that would attract youths to join a gang? (6marks)

According to GAP (n.d. paragraph 3) “a sense of ‘’family’’ these are the reason why youths would like to join the gangs because they think that their family did not put much attention on them, all they had done could not catch their family eye on. They will go outside and search for ‘’family’’, the gangs will convince youths to rely on them and so youths think that they found a places that more confortable...