Tuesday, February 19, 2013

More than 1,000 Youth Gangs in the Netherlands


About three hundred out of the 1,200 youth street gangs in the Netherlands are violent, or there is a great risk that they will become violent. This results from new research conducted for the Ministry of Security and Justice. Nineteen percent of the gangs cause major disruption and 6% are criminal. The violence of these gangs varies from verbal, to heavy physical violence. The most severe criminals cannot be found on the streets – they operate on a national and international level. Research shows that the violence increases with the size of the area the gangs operate in.
http://www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/4492/Nederland/article/detail/3395735/2013/02/18/Lid-Jeugdbende-We-gebruiken-alle-vormen-van-geweld.dhtml

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