“Gangs, Poverty, and the Future” by James Diego Vigil

In the article, “Gangs, Poverty, and the Future”  Vigil talks about  gangs that develop  mainly in poor  neighborhood. majority of people turned to gangs because of economic inequality; gang members have are mostly males who grew up together. In this article vigil uses L.A as an example of this research and he demonstrates that a large issue with the gangs of today is that members of these gangs are very young and  older gangs raise their members like parents. These neighborhoods had a lack of guidance from parents and officials like policemen and teachers. The earliest explanation to why the poor and immigrant population turned to gangs was because of economic inequality. when they realize how small they are in economic view they feel small. 


Are gangs bad i really ''NO'' because sometimes gangs are made to protect each member in it from the strong, and i believe that  vigil really doesn't look at all the points of views of gangs. He only studies negative side. to me gangs are not bad at all, some gangs are created to help their communities and  don't break any laws on doing so.