CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: White-Collar Crime, Morale, Fraternities And Sororities
15 Mar 2016
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Frederick thrasher (a sociologist from the chicago school) was one of the first to offer a detailed definition of a gang . There is considerable disagreement as to what constitutes a gang . Some say that to be meet the definition, the gang must have at least 3 members, others say at least 5 members. Unlike thrasher (whose definition was neutral ), most definitions now say that the gang must be involved in criminal activity. Some definitions require the gang to be involved in violent crime or drug- related crime; others requires the gang to be formed for the purpose of committing a serious crime for material benefit. In his 1927 definition, thrasher did not include criminality as an essential criterion for designation as a gang. Some contemporary scholars have argued that the absence of criminality makes the definition of a gang too broad .
