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Based on the information presented in the text, briefly describe how gangs developed in the United States.
 
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In Santobello v. N.Y., the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that what amendment's right to effective assistance of counsel applies during plea bargaining?
 
  a. the Eighth Amendment.
  b. the Fifth Amendment.
  c. the Fourteenth Amendment.
  d. the Sixth Amendment.



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The first mention of youth gangs in America occurred in the late 1780s, when prison reformers noted the presence of gangs of young people hanging out on Philadelphia's street corners. By the 1820s, New York's Bowery and Five Points districts, Boston's North End and Fort Hill, and the outlying Southwark and Moyamensing sections of Philadelphia were the locales of youth gangs with colorful names like the Roach Guards, Chichesters, the Plug Uglies, and the Dead Rabbits.

In the 1920s, Frederick Thrasher initiated the study of the modern gang in his analysis of more than 1,300 youth groups in Chicago. He found that the social, economic, and ecological processes that affect the structure of cities create cracks in the normal fabric of societyweak family controls, poverty, and social disorganization. Thrasher referred to this as an interstitial areaone falling within the cracks and crevices of society. According to Thrasher, groups of youths develop to meet such needs as play, fun, and adventure, activities that sometimes lead to delinquent acts. Impoverished areas present many opportunities for conflict between groups of youths and adult authority. If this conflict continues, the groups become more solidified and their activities become primarily illegal, and the groups develop into gangs.

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