Gang Violence The Story Of Jumoke Johnson - 2010 Words

Gang Violence: The Story of Jumoke Johnson, Jr. The lives of children are greatly influenced by the environment they grow up in, and the people they come in contact with. For years, psychologists, researchers, and social workers have studied children, and why they do what they do. All have developed many different perspectives on how to view social problems and the development of individuals. The Social Problem For three generations the Johnson family has been involved in drug dealings, shootouts, and gangs (Burger, 2012). Jumoke Johnson was slated to break the streak as he reached his senior year of high school. The Chattanooga Times Free Press writer, Beth Burger (2012) followed the teen to document his life in high school. The†¦show more content†¦The police thought his influential personality is what raised him in the ranks of the Rollin’ 60 Crips gang of Chattanooga. When he graduated in 2012 a private investor paid for him to be sent to Miles College in Fairfield, Alabama (Wiseman, 2015). He was kicked out after one semester and came right back to Chattanooga where he got involved in a cocaine conspiracy that landed him in federal prison (Wiseman, 2015). Wiseman (2015) writes he was sentenced to sixty-five months with four years supervised release, and ordered to complete 500 hours of alcohol and drug treatment. In 2017, Jumoke Johnson escaped from a federal hal fway house on McCallie Avenue and disabled his GPS monitor (Bradbury). Less than a week later, he was shot and killed in a gang related incident on January 20, 2017. Systems Perspective In society, there are groups that interact with each other. They may be families, churches, government agencies, or anything in between. Those groups can be defined as systems, and in the systems perspective that is what they are referred to (Hutchison, 2017). In the 1960s, Ludwig von Bertalanffy developed the general systems theory in relation to biology, but it was widely publicized and used for various subjects (Hutchison, 2017). Hutchison (2017) summarized Bertalanffy’s theory by saying, â€Å"any element is best understood by considering its interactions with its constituent parts as well as its interactions with larger systems of which it is a part.† (p.