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Discuss prison gang development and characteristics of gang members. What strategies are being used in an attempt to control gangs in prison? Do you think these strategies are effective? Why, or why not?

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The expert provides a discussion on prison gang development and characteristics of gang members. The strategies that are being used in an attempt to control gangs in prison.

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Hello Student,

This is an awesome topic! Glad that I could assist you in completing this particular assignment. My background and education are in Corrections so I feel very comfortable with this topic.

I always suggest to my students that you break the assignment down into smaller, more manageable pieces. Let's take it sentence by sentence.

1. DISCUSS prison gang development and characteristics of gang members.

(I capitalized DISCUSS because this sets the stage for the assignment. In it's most simplest form, DISCUSS is defined as, "to consider a topic in speaking or writing")

Well in this case, you are obviously writing about "prison gang development" and "characteristics of gang members" ...

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