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Originally Posted by MargaretR
youths form gangs in order to indulge in criminal activity, which will provide them with money to finance a lifestyle that they see others are enjoying.
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The lifestyle they choose is about respect. They get respect by indulging in violence and criminal activity. If they put as much energy into finding something useful to do, getting an education, finding work then they would not have to resort to these criminal activities. They have grown up with the idea that it is someone else's responsibility to provide them with the things they want. They have grown up in families where no-one goes to work....there are no stabilising influences in their lives.
Situations like this arise because of a 'pack' mentality. Young men get stoked up and encourage one another to join in the riotous activity.
In the end it was nothing to do with a protest, it was to do with destroying as much of their environment as they could....now they will be deprived of shops and many innocent people are also deprived of their homes and their belongings because of the mobs thoughtless behaviour.