Graffiti, the tagging of property without the permission of property owners, is a crime. Tagging has been the most common form graffiti for the last decade. While the label is often applied generically, those are involved in graffiti scene of city identity. A number of different names of various style of graffiti currently in use. Research evidence strongly supports that the urban decay graffiti encourages if left unchecked.. Because it fosters impressions that the crime is rift, the seemingly trivial offence of graffiti vandalism has been a decline in property value and heightened fear within the community. Today, tags are most commonly written the marker pen or spray-painted onto the building and apartment wall. The reasons why people tag vary widely.
Some tag, such as a motto, slur or political statement, are used to mark or claim territory. Gang graffiti may also include the territory claimed by the gang. Often this is representing as directional coordinates such as Eastside or Westside. These coordinates may be as abbreviated as E/S or W/S. Typically; graffiti will include the name of the gang nicknames of the members of the gang, slogns or symbols exclusive to the gang. Graffiti can also include threats and challenge to rival gangs. Graffiti can be used to show disrespect for rivals, too Graffiti has directly impact on the city budget that funded to fix public property, streets and buildings. Cities are also spending substantial amount of money to eradicate the graffiti damage on the public property.
The Review on Youth Violence and Gang Membership in America
Abstract Youth violence and its continuing growth as an epidemic seems to greatly impact and influence the increasing numbers of gang membership in cities and states. Without proper suppression of this epidemic, at risk youth are at greater risk of committing violent crimes and beginning affiliations with gangs or becoming active gang members themselves. There is myriad of reasons for the link ...
In order to eradicate the property that damage by graffiti, the city might have to be cleaned of with special equipment. This equipment and the labor costs are usually high. Often times when the graffiti is painted over or cleaned there is a remainder of the damage left behind (i.e. the paint did now quite match the original paint or may be the spot is now darker than the rest).
Graffiti is a form of vandalism that can destroys much in a citys neighborhood. Indirectly, graffiti defaces neighborhood and declines property values.
People who live in areas with heavy graffiti fear crime, and business activity is reduced because the general public associates graffiti with criminal activity and is afraid to patronize the business. Also graffiti contributes to reduce retail sales .A business littered with graffiti is less likely to be patronized. So citizens fell less safe and secure entering a storefront where graffiti is present. Gang members take the messages they read in graffiti seriously, and the longer graffiti is left up in a neighborhood, the greater the risk that the threats will be acted upon Inconculision, graffiti devalues property and makes people feel unsafe in their neighborhoods. Graffiti is not simply a maintenances problem, but a complex social problem as well. Some graffiti is also the product of gang activity. While graffiti is not an easy problem to solve, people are doing something about it.
Many neighborhoods are taking control and vitalize a town watch for example. Another deterrent used against the war on graffiti is to pay a penalty for those who deface property. Some cities have the vandals clean up the graffiti by themselves. ..
