A List Of The Most Impressive Research Paper Topics About Youth Gangs


Youth gangs are a menace all over. It does not matter wherever these gangs are, the continent, the country or the neighborhood, the fact remains that these gangs are a bad thing and they are not good for the society. It is important to address the challenges that these gangs face, and the challenges that they pose to the societies and communities wherein they thrive. Whichever way you look at it, these gangs are trouble, trouble that we can do without. Most of them tend to start with a noble cause, like protecting their neighborhoods of acting as a community watch program to provide more security for their regions perhaps because of the perception that the security wing of the government does not offer as much security as they need to keep their areas safe. However, over time such noble ideas get usurped and things turn from bad to worse in the blink of an eye. Herein are some topics that you can write about when you have been asked to work on such a paper.

  • Are youth gangs a necessary evil?

  • Discuss the challenges that the youth face, forcing them to join youth gangs

  • Discuss what a gang is, and how they recruit young individuals into their ranks

  • Discuss the difference between a motive-based gang and a member-based gang

  • Discuss some methods of helping young people stay away from gangs

  • How can we rehabilitate the young people who choose to walk away from gangs?

  • Discuss the hierarchy of leadership within youth gangs and how this affects their activities

  • Explain some of the different levels of gang involvement

  • Discuss the role that politics plays in the formation, propagation and continued rise in gang activity

  • Discuss the affiliation of youth gangs with graffiti and tattoos

  • Is it possible to fully restitute an individual that has been in a gang for a good part of their young lives and all the way into adulthood?

These are just some of the simple titles that you can work with on this paper. From the way these titles are constructed, it should be easier for you to also be in a position where you can think outside the box and come up with a good title. Most of the time you will realize that you just need to think about the common things that you see every other day.