Definition Of Gang Crime

Gang also called street gang or youth gang a group of persons usually youths who share a common identity and who generally engage in criminal behaviour.

Definition of gang crime. The term may also refer to physical hostile interactions between two or more gangs. In contrast to the criminal behaviour of other youths the activities of gangs are characterized by some level of organization and continuity over time. Gang violence means criminal and non political acts of violence committed by a group of people who regularly engage in criminal activity against innocent people. A gang is usually considered to be a group of people who spend time in public places that see themselves and are seen by others as a noticeable group and engage in a range of criminal activity and violence.

A gang is a group or society of associates friends or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages either individually or collectively in illegal and possibly violent behavior. A group of young people who do illegal things together and who often fight against other gangs. A group of adolescents who band together especially a group of delinquents. A group of criminals.

A group of criminals or hoodlums who band together for mutual protection and profit. Former conservative leader iain duncan smith said that half of all violent crime in london was carried out by gangs as the think tank he chairs the centre. A group of people who associate together or act as an organized body esp for criminal or illegal purposes an organized group of workmen a herd of buffaloes or elks or a pack of wild dogs nz a group of shearers who travel to different shearing sheds shearing classing and baling wool. On the federal level a street gang is defined as an ongoing group club organization or association of five or more persons formed for the purpose of committing a violent crime or drug offense with members who have engaged in a continuing series of violent crimes or drug law violations that affect interstate or foreign commerce 18 u s c a.