CARIBBEAN SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATE

CSEC

NAME OF STUDENT: Aaliyah LaRose

CANIDATE NUMBER: 090123
SCHOOL CODE: 090123
NAME OF SCHOOL: Apex Education Inc
TEACHER NAME: Amrita Singh
TERRITORY: Guyana
SUBMISSION DATE
Table of Contents
Acknowledgement……………………………………………………………………

Introduction …………………………………………………………………………

Statement of problem …………………………………………………………………

Reason for selecting the area of research ……………………………………………

Method of investigation………………………………………………………………

Instrument use to collect data………………………………………………………..

Cover letter …………………………………………………………………………

Questionnaire ………………………………………………………………………

Procedures for data collecting …………………………………………………….

Presentation of data ……………………………………………………………….

Analysis and Interpretation of data ……………………………………………….

Statement of finding ………………………………………………………………

Recommendation and Implementation strategy …………………………………..

Conclusion …………………………………………………………………………..

Bibliography ………………………………………………………………………..

Appendix ……………………………………………………………………………

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to acknowledge and give my warmest thanks to my supervisor miss Amrita Singh
who made this work possible for me to do. My parents for their guidance and advice carried me
through all the stages of writing my project.

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 INTRODUCTION
This S.S.A. will be a big investigation into gang violence in kitty campbellville, which is a large
community, and is located in the eastern part of Georgetown. This will seek answers and
represent the information’s gathered by the researcher on the topic gang violence

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 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

How does gang violence affect a person who belongs and doesn’t belong to a gang group?

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 REASON FOR SELECTING THE AREA OF RESEARCH

Kitty Campbellsville is a rural area, located in the eastern part of Georgetown and has over 1000
persons. Gang violence is a group of people, who go around together and often deliberately
cause trouble. The researcher became aware of the violence’s on social media.
The researcher wants to know why youths, turn to violence and to help spread awareness to help
the youths to better their life

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 METHOD OF INVESTIGATION

Surveys data collection method, the researcher has chosen to use. Data collection is the process
of gathering and measuring information on variables of interest, in an established systematic
fashion that enables one to answer stated research questions, test hypotheses, and evaluate
outcomes. A questionnaire is a research tool featuring a series of questions used to collect
useful information from respondents, the surveys method is because of High
Representativeness, low costs and Good Statistical Significance.

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COVER LETTER 

33Durban,                                                                                                                          
Lodge,
 
Georgetown 

Guyana 

  May 28 2022

Reference: Requesting your assistance to respond to a questionnaire on Gang

Violence 

Dear villager:
 
I am Aaliyah LaRose, a student at the apex Education Inc. I am in the process of making my
school-based assessment project, the topic being “Gang Violence”.

As part of my primary data collection, I am conducting a survey regarding people’s preferences

towards gang violence. I would need only a few minutes of your time to fill out a questionnaire
which forms a comprehensive part of my research. Your responses hold a great significance in
my quest of data collection.
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Please find the questionnaire attached and feel free to share your opinion. If you face
any difficulty answering any question, you could leave it blank.

Thank you very much in advance for your assistance.

 
 
Sincerely yours ‘
 
Aaliyah LaRose 
 
 
 

 Questionnaire 

Instructions: This paper consists of 15 opened and closed ended questions and you
are required to answer all questions.

1.What is your gender?

Male 
Female
 

2.Which age group are you in?

13-16 
17-25
26-35
36-40
over 40

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 3.What is your ethnicity ?

African
East Indian
Mixed
Amerindian
 
4.What is your religion?

Hinduism
Buddhism
Christianity
Islam
 
5.Are you a member of a Gang?

Yes
No
 
6. Are you aware of gangs in your community? 

No
Yes
7.How would you rate the gang in your community?

Bad
very bad
not bad
not to worry about
 

8.Why do teens join gangs?

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 hey don't want to go to school
to commit crimes and get away with it
try to provide for them self
to become a menace to society

9. What can be done about gang violence?

10.What race and gender are more at risk to become a gang member?

Black and minority males

White and black males
Black and minority females
White and black females

11.Gang affiliation is highest in _____ and suburban counties.

Larger cities
Urban
Ural
Small communities

12. How does the gang affect you?

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 fear for your life

always fighting in the streets

very loud

bad examples for kids in the area

13.How do youth become involved in gangs?

14. How are street gangs different from other criminal groups, such as organized
crime groups, motorcycle gangs, ideology groups, and prison gangs?

            

15.What are some ways you think teens can avoid going into gangs? 

By staying in school

By not following other peers

Let gang members know you respect them but you are not interested in joining
a gang
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 Avoid areas where gang members hang out

PROCEDURE FOR COLLECTION OF DATA

The instrument used was a questionnaire. The questionnaire had 15 demogenetic questions they
were some open and closed ended questions,22 questionnaire was giving to 15 males and 8
female 23. Persons in the age group of 13 to 40 received the questionnaire.
The researcher was assisted on their own, the random sampling selected 22 people. The data
collecting period was 5 days for the collection from the 21st -25th of September 2022. The data
was collected in kitty campbellville an urban community
The researcher distributed the questionnaire by hands and were collected by hands it was
necessary as it ensure accurate data and it was the only way the researcher had to access and was
reliable and accurate.

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PRESENTATION OF DATA

The researcher had distributed 22 questionnaires that consisted of 15 questions. The information
received is in the graphs and table.

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GRAPH 2 SHOWING HOW GANGS AFFECT YOU

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GRAPH 3 SHOWING THE SOLUTIONS

ANALYSIS AND NTERPRETATION OF DATA

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In figure one, the pie chart is showing the causes for teens joining gangs.it is showing clearly
showing that 33.3% of the respondents think that the reason the teens join gangs is because they
want to become a menace to society. Whereas another 33.3%believes that they are trying to
provide for themselves. whiles 14.3% of them clams that they refuse to go to school and learn to
help become a better young adult for themselves. Lastly 14.0% of crowd suppose that they want
to commit crimes and get away with their wrongs

The second figure shows a bar graph on how the gangs affects the people in the community of
the kitty area. It indicates to us that 3% of the people had chosen that they have to fear for their
life in their community just because of the gang. Whereby 1% of says that they are always
fighting in the streets which affects them on a daily base. The third choice 1% chose that the
gangs in their community are very loud, whereas 17% of persons claims that the gangs in their
own community are bad examples for the children’s that also live in that community also.

In the third figure shows a column chart on what you thing teens can avoid going into gangs.
Which 7 persons chose the best way they think teens can avoid gangs are by staying in school,
the second choice 10 individual chose by not following their peers. They third choice was chosen
by 2 persons which they thing that the best way is by letting the gang members know you respect
them but you are not interested in joining a gang, lastly the last choice was chosen by 6 persons
that teens should avoid areas where gang members hang out.

The respondent that had answered the questionnaire were mostly in the age rang of 17 to 25 are
were from the mixed race relating to half of them being from the religion of Christianity. They
were all asked if they were a member of a gang which they had all said No, which majority of
them said that they are aware of gangs in their community and how would they rate them, which
six persons said that they are bad 2% responded saying very bad, 8% had said that they are not
bad and 7% stated that they were not to worry about, while they also stated that they are bad
examples for the kids that lives in those area. They all had their own options as to why teens join
gangs but the highest votes choses that they want to provide for themselves. Most people things
that black and minority males are more exposed to being in a gang than others and are found in
larger cities and less being in urban communities. 8% of persons say that the best way they can
avoid going into gangs are by not following their peers and 7% of people say that they should
stay in school 5% said that they should avoid those areas that the gangs are found to be living in.

STATEMENT OF FINDING
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  About 85% of people have lived in kitty for over 8 years, unlike the other 15% of who
recently moved to that community because of reasonable housing

 35% of death are cause by gang affliction in kitty, 10% has died from fighting, while 5%
are caused by unknown deaths

 The persons that are living in kitty tried their best to answer the fifth question honest.
95% admitted to knowing persons in gangs, whereas 5% claimed that they do not known
any one that is a member of a gang.

Recommendation
After analyzing all of the data collected, the researcher has come up with two recommendations.

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  The government should enforce homes for young adults, a program which can help them
assist trade union
 Once every year the gang members lead should host a talk to the youths and advise them
on the long-term negative effects join gangs can cause.

Implementation strategy

The researcher is very confident that increasing police raids and host warning programs in the
community is the most probable solution. When the authorities punish those, who are in charge
of the gangs and involved it will serve as a detour for others who cause it and thus reducing gang
violence

CONCLUSION
In conclusion the researcher has successfully completed the S.B.A and has gained more
knowledge on their S.B.A. knowing everyone options and to see that everyone has a different
view from each other on gang violence that can be pass on to anyone.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Wikipedia from https://en.wikipedia.orgwiki/Gang

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 Curry, G. D., Decker, S. H., and Pyrooz, D. C. (2014). National gang center
https://nationalgangcenter.ojp.gov/

R. Matthie ( 2015, November 16th). Slide share

https://www.slideshare.net/rahemematthie/csec-social-studies-sample-sba

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