2007-03-27 02:07:13 · 9 answers · asked by charnelle_713 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
I've worked with troubled kids for a long time. Their take on it is to belong. To have a purpose. To have a family. To have meaning.
I also have to add that most of these kids might be begging for some structure in their lives - something that makes sense. Definitively. The rules in a gang are absolute. Easy to understand and consistently enforced. Something they may not get anywhere else in their lives. This brings them a sense of worthiness, accomplishment, loyalty, respect. All the things they crave.
I'm not condoning it. Just answering what I've seen from them.
2007-03-27 03:59:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not they "want" to join them. Most of the time they're born into that lifestyle...they grow up around that kind of thing and when they become of age it's the only way they "survive"! It seems like they're signing up for suicide and a long road of trouble doesn't it?? but not exactly, see in a REAL gang they really are like family. The young kids "lil homies" usually come from broken homes and are living in rough conditions where they may have to resort to drug use or sell. Older cats "Big Homies" usually look out for them in the streets and help them and when they get older... they just get sucked in!
now as for the othr kids who don't really know anything about that lifestyle and try so hard to be well "hard" they join for attention,respect. Things that they later realize they don't get for "pretending" to be a gangster!
2007-03-27 09:13:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
People who have chosen a life of crime need tolearn from the best and they also need the protection of a larger community, no different than people who go to law school or belong to a professional community.
these people have embraced thug life and be it Hell's Angels, crips, folks nation, bloods, Lat kings, Aryan nation etc... these are the people they need to coexist with to prosper and survive.
2007-03-27 09:20:26 · answer #3 · answered by huckleberry1 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you forgot to add an adjective "why do stupid people want to join crips and blood gangs" and that answer your question as well.
2007-03-27 09:14:36 · answer #4 · answered by rickyhunter 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Alot of people when they join they really don't know what their gettin their self into and don't really know what its about, and other people they look to belong to something that they know is gonna stand behind em no matta what. And then you have people like me like us, that was born into it, sometimes its the only thing they know, but to us cripz are family, most of the time its the only thing we got, we come from shot up homes, killed familys, dead parents, its a part of life. To alot of cripz its the only they know, we ride and die together......peace c'z up 4lyfe....r.i.p. cc we miss an love u *****
2007-03-28 18:26:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they don't have good parental supervision and a pathetic family life.
2007-03-30 14:06:11 · answer #6 · answered by jessiemarius 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They feel this is the only type of groups they will fit in to.
2007-03-27 09:10:46 · answer #7 · answered by LG 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Protection, belonging to a "family".
2007-03-27 09:10:12 · answer #8 · answered by biscuitperifrank 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
same reason as democrats and republicans...left...right...liberals...gays, lesbians.....journalists......
2007-03-27 09:12:05 · answer #9 · answered by sayasyoulike 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋