Why are most gangs race or ethnicity based?

The roles of race and ethnicity in gang membership are becoming increasingly complicated; more gangs are becoming multiracial, which affects the role of race and ethnicity, especially with respect to conflicts between gangs. read more

Even if you don’t personally have a very strong sense of your ethnicity and race as opposed to other groups, that sense will evolve pretty rapidly as you fight other gangs that, as a result of the same factors of spatial differentiation and segregation, look different from you. read more

The roles of race and ethnicity in gang membership are becoming increasingly complicated; more gangs are becoming multiracial, which affects the role of race and ethnicity, especially with respect to conflicts between gangs. Research-based evidence on how race and ethnicity should influence gang membership prevention strategies is still limited. read more

Most gangs form in response to racism, most instances being white on minority racism. Racism restricts the flow of the capital causing widespread economic stagnation in new immigrants and minority groups which leads to crime such as the drug trade, illegal gun trade. read more