Sentences with phrase «gang culture»

Meanwhile, the rise of gang culture has led to a surge in the number of young people involved in knife crime.

Soft sentences do nothing to tackle gang culture and community breakdown.

You must not have one bit of understanding about gang culture.

If you thought you could avoid gang culture by moving out of a big city, think again.

We can be quick to condemn gang culture and antisocial behaviour but we rarely choose to dig deep into why these things are happening.

Black communities need to put forward positive role models to counter gang culture, ministers have been told.

It is also interesting to ask students what is needed to break this cycle of young people entering youth gang culture / knife crimes.

Schools are also affected by events in the wider community, for example, increased incidence of gang culture and gang - related criminal activity, particularly related to drugs.

Becoming a Christian has transformed him; he now works for Gangsline, a charity that advises the government on gang culture.

Interviewed for Monday morning's Today programme, he emphasised the way he was working with his local Labour council to tackle gang culture in Waltham Forest, London.

With gang culture on the rise and 26 teenagers stabbed to death in the capital last year, we meet the Christians battling for peace

After five incredible seasons of «Key & Peele» skewering black masculinity in its various forms, the duo here settle for an uninspired riff on Los Angeles gang culture, stringing together fish - out - of - water vignettes by using a stray kitten as thread.

Experts say the drop in London's numbers are the result of fosterers priced out of the capital, councils not being able to fund children's homes in the region, and moves to protect children from gang culture.

«Wilding,» when teenagers from Chicago's tougher neighborhoods invade the wealthier ones and do everything from rob convenience stores to assault passersby, gave way to bloodier crimes as Chicago's gang culture splintered in on itself, The Daily Beast reported in August.

The United States gang culture has taken over vast portions of El Salvador, Guatemala and (to a lesser degree) Honduras.

[3] It has also produced well - publicised reports into gang culture, [4] modern slavery, [5] addiction, [6] family breakdown, [7] and educational failure.

So the announcement that Duncan Smith is to share the lead in a cross-government programme to deal with gang culture left him a very literal winner - that is, a Minister who's been given licence from the top to muscle in on someone else's territory, namely the Home Office's.

That was part of a pattern of recklessness that helped investigators from the Buffalo Police and the District Attorney's Office build their case outside the tight - knit gang culture that tends to settle disputes with «street justice.»

Mixing action and strategy elements within a gritty, detailed storyline to explore modern - day urban gang culture, the player is cast as a small - time homie who must work their way through the ranks to become a gang leader.

Edgar says: 1979 was a clearly a banner year for gang culture, as these two movies are the best of the genre.

Though it can't escape the tag of hagiography (it was made under the aegis of Ziggy Marley and Chris Blackwell), it does reveal harsher aspects of the singer's character, the driven lifestyle he pursued, and the Jamaican gang culture of his time.

(Ill.) Challenged by one of the nation's most violent and embedded gang cultures, Chicago Public Schools embarked five years ago on an effort to improve school safety and to address student behavioral problems.

«The more we got into the Gypsy Rose and the Imperials, the more we saw them fighting the stereotypes, shaping the community to go against gang culture, working to be an outlet for something good in a tough area.

Trafficking in local puppy sales brings in cash income and as breeders are being regulated elsewhere, high volume producers of so - called, «bully breeds,» now line the I - 35 corridor, advertising gang culture and making thinly veiled references to dog fighting on their websites.

Where GTA: San Andreas was about exploring gang culture, GTA V will be about capturing «contemporary culture of LA»

In particular, large diptych «Sluggers Paradise» (2016), represents the classic blue and red of opposing political parties, but also references the North American gang culture.

The Mental Health and Safeguarding training (MAST) will give frontline professionals including teachers, police officers, council workers and health and social care workers unprecedented specialised training in understanding gang culture, identifying young people who are gang affiliated, providing them with support services, and knowing the right steps to take when they encounter a young person that may be an easy target for gang recruitment.

Duncan Smith was speaking on gang culture and told the meeting: «We have a growing underclass in the UK that is almost completely detached from society as many of the rest of us would understand it.

Inspired by Los Angeles gang culture and the use graffiti as a means of «tagging» territories, Sterling Ruby's mark - making presents a timely alternative to classic painterly techniques.

Harry Brown is nothing like Caine's classic gangster film Get Carter, where the audience weren't supposed to like the character and endorse their actions, nor is it anything like Gran Torino, which was a film about redemption, bridging cultural divides and examining the influence of gang culture on vulnerable young people.

With gang culture on the rise and 26 teenagers stabbed to death in the capital last year, we meet the Christians battling for peace More

James Clappison wants to know what Godwin thinks works in tackling gang culture.

Dheepan won the Palme D'Or at Cannes last year and addresses two of the burning social issues of the day: illegal immigration and gang culture in French suburbs.

But there are four main reasons: transportation, ethnic makeup, size, and gang culture.

From a gang culture that has gone mainstream to the impact of drugs, from mental health issues to the exploitation of vulnerable children, there isn't one reason for the rise in violence and there's certainly not one solution.

Without my dad I've no doubt that I would have ended up walking down the path of criminal activity and gang culture that many of my friends did.

Peter Whittle pointed out in the September Standpoint magazine that «If faced with a group of gang members playing music unbearably loud in the car next to them at traffic lights I personally know of nobody - nobody, from Daily Telegraph reader toGuardian reader - who would risk asking them to turn it down... but it's not just the gang culture.»

However, although some of these artists have alluded to their Christian backgrounds, much of their music falls in line with the glorification of gang culture and unbiblical content with which hiphop and rap is frequently associated.

It can be particularly prevalent in schools, where bullying thrives because of a variety of factors, such as immaturity and gang culture.

We will scratch below the surface to deal with the complex issues we know play a part — including deprivation, gang culture and exclusion.

Children attending the programmes will expand their social skills and emotional understanding by addressing issues like knife crime and gang culture.

Speaking at Hay literary festival on Monday, Lady Warsi — the Conservative peer and first Muslim in a British cabinet — said government policy was currently too focused on ideology as the sole cause of radicalisation, and not on other factors, including upbringing and drug and gang culture.

It's part of a knife and gang culture that requires cultural solutions as well as state solutions.

• A ministerial group will prepare a programme of action on gang culture.

The coalition's response focused heavily on a crackdown on the gang culture problem experienced in many of England's inner cities.

Police should be given the power to apply for internet videos glamorising knife crime and gang culture to be removed, a Labour MP has said.

A new report from education watchdog Ofsted has revealed that a fifth of England's secondary schools are concerned about «gang culture».