Portfolio: Examining Gangs, Social Media, and Youth Violence

This portfolio provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship between gangs, social media, and youth violence. It includes a review of an article titled "Snapchat Is Fuelling Britain’s Teen Murder Epidemic," which analyzes how social media platforms like Snapchat contribute to the rise of teen murders by facilitating online disputes and glorifying violence. The portfolio also features a review of the TV series "Gangs of London," highlighting its portrayal of gang-related crime and violence. Additionally, it contains typewritten notes from three lectures, focusing on the role of social media as a catalyst for gang violence, academic perspectives on gangs and social media, and the policing of gang-related social media content. The lectures cover topics such as the impact of drill music, case studies of gang-related incidents, and the internationalization of gang activity. The portfolio aims to provide a multi-faceted examination of the complex interplay between gangs, social media, and youth violence, with a focus on both the causes and consequences of this phenomenon. Desklib offers a wide range of solved assignments and study materials for students.

Portfolio

Table of Contents
A Chapter or Journal, Article Review..........................................................................................................3
Film or TV series or program Review.........................................................................................................5
Typewritten notes on three selected lectures...............................................................................................7

A Chapter or Journal, Article Review
Snapchat Is Fuelling Britain’s Teen Murder Epidemic
On the basis of this case study, it is analyzed that the cases of murder is taking the wider place in
UK and the role of social media channels more in order to spread the awareness about these kind
of cases. It is determined that social media networking sites are playing prominent role to
highlight these kinds of cases. A one case which highlighted via “Snapchat” that was all about
the “Snapchat Is Fuelling Britain’s Teen Murder Epidemic”. It is analyzed that throughout the
last 3 years, the Snapchat has aided & encouraged a string of young people killings. It was
happened more frequently, many juvenile mass killings & killings have been prompted by a
disagreement on Snapchat, including some cases like a 15-year-old kid who was fatally stabbed
on a packed bus on the way back home and also 16-year-old boy who was slain following a
sequence of murderous threats on a train platform (Brotherton, 201).
There are various advancement of social media and social networking sites, it is identified that
social networking sites and applications are providing positive impact on the society and also
improve the awareness about the crime and also provide the best solutions in order to tackle
down the crime related problems. Snapchat is considered one of the effective tool of social media
which can helpful to provide the knowledge and techniques to deal with the crime situations.
"Some portions of Snapchat are gang culture 24 hours a day, seven days a week." "It's like
watching television programme on the digital networking that involved both parties battling &
seeing who might be the most extreme, who can be the harshest," for instance , on the basis of
Jonas, he work as a support worker whom brother was a victim of street crime, says. "Knife
chases, live on the internet, guys attempting themself appear frightening." "It wasn't because
Snapchat generates this violence," Jonas explains, "but it makes things worse because certain
individuals see it, and so these men love using this to tease one another and prove who's bigger
and tougher." People need to prove themselves to Snapchat since nowadays, many people
believe that if something doesn't happened on the social networking sites, it won't affect.

Everything here is documented, even if it raises the possibility that someone will be captured
(Brown ,1998). It went viral among her online network, despite the fact that the teen girl had
little to do with the boy's death, as authorities would eventually uncover.
It is identified that, Snapchat is the ideal venue for filming street battle for people active
in gang activity. "When somebody is physically assaulted on a Snapchat video, they must
respond with something even more severe to maintain their standing in the environment, and
online media gives that space." Ciaran Thapar, a preschool teacher in south London and author
of Cutting Short: Youth Crime, Loss, and Salvation in the City, says, "It's that phenomena that's
occurring en masse." "It occurs in everyday social media, such as when individuals argue in
person because of something someone wrote on Twitter." "Of obviously, whenever they combine
it in a society where there are a lot of knives and trauma flying around, it gets much more
intense."
As in the instance of Olly's murder in Reading, Snapchat information is frequently utilised in
courtroom to achieve verdicts. However, although the establishment of a 20-strong specialised
police team dedicated to monitoring gang-related internet content in 2018, the volume of violent
content greatly outnumbers resources. Three years ago, Met Director Cressida Dick described
how social media networks enable teenage violence. When it comes to violent content, however,
the firms that manage these platforms tend to be hesitant to respond and unwilling to comply.
Throughout her "set-up chick" episode, the 14-year-old girl said that Snapchat refused to assist
her or even the authorities discover the persons who propagated the rumour, while she claims
that Instagram was more helpful (Davies , 2011).
It is analyzed that social media channels also providing negative impact on society. It is
determined that nowadays, Snapchat goes dark when the teenager dies. The poison around a
deadly attack reaches the platform in minutes. As per the current situation, teenager’s gloat of
stabbing rivals to death in Snapchat recordings, groups proclaim that "blood points" against their
opponents have now been achieved & pledges of retribution are aired. It's no accident that the
app was used by assassins to show showcase knives and openly state their desire to attack Olly in
the days leading up to his murder in Reading. In a terrible instance intimately related to the
Snapchat, a mother told when she viewed evidence on social networking sites of their 15-year-

old son Tamim Ian Habimana's murder in Woolwich, south London, in July. Tamim's killing has
been filed against five adolescents aged 14 to 19 (Dragiewicz, 2014).
Another example which demonstrated the adverse impact of Snapchat such as , Young people
are also properly utilizing Snapchat in order to purchase the suspicious death weapons. A group
was arrested last month after being found distributing 128 hunters knives and cutlasses on
Snapchat. “Peope are extremely aware to how the social media may, in some instances, fuel
violent crime in London," Commander Alex Murray, the Met Police's head for fighting
aggression in London, told VICE World News. There are various online disagreements that can
now spill out into the streets and culminating in violent assaults." In a manner which has not
been conceivable before, it's simple to get sucked into a violent, poisonous vortex on Snapchat,
where teens are seen being slashed and assaulted and opposing crews throw up championship
charts of points won for injuring the rivals (Gunter, 2017).
Film or TV series or program Review
Gangs of London (TV Series)
In order to address the requirements of this report, a TV series is selected which is totally based
on the gangs & groups offending so that this TV series can effectively full fill the requirements
of the gang agenda. For this report, “ Gangs of London” TV series is considered &Gangs of
London is popular &most trending action–crime drama, this TV series mainly created by the
Pulse Films & Sister, based on the year 2006 video strategy game. This TV series mainly
follows competing gangs & other organized criminals in current London. The 1st season
premiered on Sky Atlantic on April 23, 2020 in UK. Gareth Evans & Matt Flannery devised the
series that is mainly known for action crime flicks The Raid.
“Gangs of London” are a two-part TV series. The show's magnificent, murderous,
violent first five episodes mainly open the way for the just a short tempered, self indulgent, &
annoyed plot point that fades into the more laidback final four episodes. It's still enjoyable, but it

lacks the thrills of the first half, which is a disappointment because Gangs of London is at its best
during the action parts. These are unquestionably among the greatest on the smaller screen in a
lot longer (Hagedorn and Davis, 2008).
For the first five episodes, the programme serves us a hedonistic mix of huge action set pieces set
against a Wild West backdrop even as families fight for control of London. Since the violence
&speed are so superb, it's easy to overlook some of the artificial dialogue & sporadic
performances. “Gangs of London” pulls ideas from previous crime dramas but managed to
integrate them it in to a compelling adequate scenario without ever seeming like a carbon copy or
rip-off. Finn Wallace, the mafia leader in charge of London, is assassinated by two unknown
assailants on a hired hit. Sean's wrath runs as deep as he sets out to find out who deceived
&killed his brother now he's in charge of the company. There's a dangerous concoction of set-
pieces just begging to be worked with, with individual power struggles inside the group, a bunch
of terrible blood, &tensions with the Albanian mafia.
Elliot, a guy who works on Finn Wallace's payroll & finds himself trapped in the centre
of just this developing struggle as he generally discovers the prominent data & begins to gain
Sean's confidence, is the true wild card. Others pursue a sliver of evidence, which eventually
takes them to the two lads who are guilty (Hills, 2018) . Despite some flaws with the second part
of the tale, “Gangs of London” is a tremendously fascinating crime epic doing an excellent job of
integrating violent content & large-scale dramatic create chances with an intriguing storey about
power in London. Whereas the storey loses its way in the later part & a number of the characters
aren't given a good send-off, there's plenty to admire about this series to make it quite well worth
watching, warts & all.

Typewritten notes on three selected lectures
First Lecture (Gangs & social media)
The main purpose of this lecture is to discuss about the role of the social media as a catalyst for
the gang violence. With the help of case study, it can helpful to clear this role in an appropriate
manner. In this lecture, teacher is also discussed about the academic perspective related with the
gang & also social media in a different way. The main motive of the case study which discussed
in this lecture is determined about the police gang and social media content.
In this lecture, teacher discussed about the specific case named - Case study “Headie one and
Tottenham vs Wood Green N17 – N22”. In this case, 3 murders are found over the ten week
in the year 2018 and in the social networking sites posts & a song which went viral that
highlighted this case and this is the central part of this case study. Crimes and cases are going
viral on the social networking platforms (Home Office , 2012).
In this case study, teacher discussed about those people who are affected the society
most and doing this types of illegal activities. Teachers discussed about the Headie , his real
name is Irving Adjei and he is a underground drill artist and he served 3 previous prison
sentences for 30 months. Headie did the worst things and also damage many lives including 26
January 2018 attack. After that teacher discussed about the Wood green reprisal, it is identified
that Kobi Nelson, who is 22 year old young person , he mainly work from Tottenham killed
Allegedly shout ‘wood green, wood green’ and it is identified that this Incident rapidly trended
on social media and via social media , some family members found out through this medium)
In this lecture, teacher also discussed about a specific tragedy, on 2nd, April 2018,
Tanesha is a 17-year-old Victoria girl. Blake, an innocent person in a drive-by assassination in
Tottenham, was shot and died, marking a turning point in the Tottenham vs. Wood Green rivalry.
Because when train arrives, anyone can board.
In this lecture, teacher also provided some knowledge about the gangs and social media amnd
addressed the question -
What does this tell us about gangs and social media?

There are few things are discussed which highlight the effectiveness of the social media.
 Social networking site evaluation, expert interactions, and young people interviews
 Demonstrate, provoke, and glorify violence - Takes place 'under the radar,' thus it
becomes a 'free for all' zone
 Putting adolescent citizens at risk by exposing them to extreme violence
 Growing crowd disdain for one another incites
 Forcing from society to retaliate and protect one's image
 Youtube videos used for attacks and violence -'sket lists' of young ladies sexually
abused - internet boundaries growingly hazy, direct cause for facial landmark conflict
 Increased usage in jails and prisons
Responses to social media
 The newly enacted Extreme Violence Program of the UK Government (Scottish
Government) singled out social media for glamorising gang life, exacerbating gang
tensions, and normalising weapon ownership.
 Subtle and overt drug cartel social media data will be disrupted and removed by a
Metropolitan police task squad. Drill rappers will be banned:
 gang injunction on live performances – AM and Skengdo – criminal behavior ban – Rico
Recks – criminal performer ban – 1011 – popular music downloading ban
 In joint venture proceedings, it is being used as evidentiary.
 Challenges with social media platforms not doing enough when it comes to law
government databases and information gathering (Hopkins-Burke , 2008)
Second Lecture (A History of Respectable Fears Boomers, zoomers and those inbetween (and
before!) All will be revealed)

This lecture discussed about the significance of the history and also discussed about the youth
violence & youth culture across the two centuries & identifies the reactions on it.
In this lecture, some points related with the horrible history are highlighted which determined
that -
The history of infancy is a nightmares where we've only lately begun to emerge,"
writes De Mause (1982), referenced in Jenks (1996). The deeper the quality of child care travels
back into the history, ever more probable kids are to be murdered, orphaned, abused, terrorised,
and physically molested (Ilan, 2015).

Results
 The elders were terrified of the youngsters loitering on road side.
 Young people were scary to them.
 Because they were afraid of being tormented, youths congregated in groupings on road
side, wherever they felt safer.
 Is there a generational divide and/or a lack of social solidarity?
Political disorder and destabilization must be a deeply embedded component of a social milieu, if
this long list of related numbers tells us anything. As an outcome, they'll be significantly more
difficult to achieve than if people imagined they sprang out of nowhere. We must first regain the
ancient if we want to grasp the modern and establish our future."
Twenge, 2006, p2 in Hills (2018)
Everyone is a member of a dynasty. Some individuals welcome it with open arms, when others
would rather not be thrown in together with their peers. Whether people like that or not, the
lifestyle you will encounter is determined by your birth date. This covers pop culture's highs and

lows, as well as international events, societal changes, economic consequences, societal
conventions, and worldviews. Until you are young, environment moulds you & remains with you
after the rest of its life (Winton, 2014).
Societal influences during the formative years of generations
Societal influences during the formative years of generations
On the basis of this table, it is identified that the years are distributed on the basis of the
generation including “Baby Boomers ( 1943 – 60), Generation X (1960-1981), Generation Y,
(1982- 2002), All these generations are mainly concerned about some appropriate factors like
Notable Occurrences, Major Influencers, Entertainment, Communication and technology,

spending styles, value and also work ethics. The specifications of all the generations are
demonstrated in this table (Jenks, 1996).
Third Lecture (Gangs in International and Comparative Context)
The main concern of this lecture is on the Gangs in context of the International and Comparative
ways. In this lecture, teacher mainly discussed about the international criminal activities which
are discussed below-
International Criminal Activities associated with Gangs (or at least in the media!)
• Human Trafficking
• Cybercrime
• Drugs Trafficking
• Illegal Trade in Animals and Animal Parts
• Arms Trafficking
• Terrorism
Internationalisation of the ‘gang’
"The gang is a spontaneously established intermediate group that was later incorporated via
combat. It is defined by two behaviors’: face-to-face meetings, milling, group activity across
space, dispute, and planning. Heritage, thoughtless internal workings, esprit de corps,
camaraderie, morality, collective identity, and commitment to a local place are the results of this
social action." (Pitts, 2008).