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Sociologists and criminologists define a gang as a group of people who band together for purposes generally considered to be deviant or criminal by the larger society.The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention estimated that in 2002,there were over 24,500 gangs with about 772,500 members in the United States.
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