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  • Essay / Analysis of Jumped In by Jorja Leap - 879

    This book also presents the police's perspective, which presents gang violence as a more black and white or good and evil problem, and their approach gang reform activist. Jorja Leap believes that to end gang violence, the same members who were once part of gangbangers must lure young people away from the same lifestyle. The book highlights how difficult it is to leave the gang lifestyle. There are frequent cases of relapse of individuals in the book, who were once ready to re-enter gangs. This case is driven by what the gangs represent in the book and what leaving them involves in giving up. The definition of gangs presented to the class was: three or more members, sharing a name, color or affiliation, or existing in a geopolitical context. For members associated with gangs, this definition may include members of your family, your neighborhood, and anyone they associate with. Take for example Ronnie from Jumped in by Jorja Leap, it says: “Ronny's models are gangbangers. His family is a hood. His mentors are older buddies in the county jail. »(102). Ronnie and other gang members like him don't