Write a 6 page paper about the deviant group Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13)
Use the questions below to guide you in composing your essay. Use at least three scholarly sources (i.e., from a scholarly journal, from a scholarly book, etc.). Note: Wikipedia is not a scholarly source. Please cite your references in a consistent format and include in text citations.
What is this group or phenomenon generally about?
Why is this a deviant group?
How are group members selected or self-selected into the group?
How are new-comers socialized into the group? In what contexts and by whom?
How is the setting structured in terms of roles, subgroups, authority?
What causes people to follow the rules, the group norms, in society deviant actions or beliefs?
How are relations maintained with outsiders, “normals?”
What do group members believe in, value, care about? What is their ideology?
What are some examples of internal deviance in the group? How does internal deviance relate to the group’s external deviance?
How did the phenomenon first start? Why? Where? When?
What is the societal opposition to the group and why? How powerful is the opposition? How have social control authorities tried to bring it into line & sanction it?
What allies does the group/do group members have outside the group?
What is the overall impact of the group on society?
