Gang violence is one of the most common types of crime, as well as one of the most difficult ones to handle. Due to the institutionalization of gangs in a range of countries, as well as the well-developed infrastructure within said gangs, addressing the problem of gang violence becomes especially difficult. Moreover, each of the stakeholders has a unique response to the problem of gang violence, which complicates the process of minimizing it.
Police is one of the primary stakeholders to be considered when addressing the issue of gang violence. Since police has the access to personal information of all citizens and, therefore, has tremendous resources on its hands to fight the issue, it needs to be confronted first when addressing the problem of gang violence (Avdija, 2019). However, due to the pervasive nature of the problem at had, the police may often be only capable of providing preventive measures against citizens being affected by the criminal activities of gangs.
In turn, the court as the body with a greater extent of freedoms in regard to the management of the problem is capable of shaping the current policies for imaging the issue. Particularly, courts can issue the policies that will affect the opportunity for its participants to be caught and punished. Specifically, the police should respond by shaping the policies and regulations in question so that members of specific communities could collaborate in order to achieve the expected results.
Similarly to the police, courts are also unlikely to concern themselves with a specific occurrence of a crime. When addressing the proposed tools namely, the legal repercussions of participating in gang activity of contribution to its formation in way should be serve as the main methods of educating the extent of gang violence within a specific area.
In turn, the correction system needs to reconsider the approach that is currently used to address the issue of crime and its prevention. Specifically, in the present-day correction system, the issue of crime management and investigation is seen as the area that deserves the greatest emphasis and care. In turn, the tasks of crime prevention and the increase in the security of potential victims remain some of the most common concern of present-day law enforcement units (Ross & Arsenault, 2018). Thus, there is a range of issues that require to be addressed before starting an intervention against the current framework for managing the extent of crime.
Finally, the community has also been providing rather clear response to the issue of gang violence. Particularly, the rise in precaution measures undertaken by citizens, and the propensity to avoid going out after it starts getting dark could be named as two of the most common characteristics of the game, which can be observed exactly at the moment. Therefore, it is crucial to introduce a combination of new attitude and new policies, thus, the level of safety will increase.
Since there is no homogeneity in addressing the problem of gang violence, resolving the issue will require revisiting the value that each stakeholder puts into the solution. Afterward, the common denominator for all the parties to be preoccupied with the question under analysis must be found. Finally, based on the results of the assessment, one will need to focus on the assessment of the extent of the problem and the scale thereof, which can begin with asking the questions regarding the activities ad general presence of gang violence to the stakeholders in question.
References
Avdija, A. S. (2019). Police response to homicide crime scenes: Testing the effect of the number of police officers and investigators responding to an active crime scene on the arrest success rate. Journal of Criminal Justice and Security, 2, 101-114.
Ross, L., & Arsenault, S. (2018). Problem analysis in community violence assessment: revealing early childhood trauma as a driver of youth and gang violence. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 62(9), 2726-2741.