Annotated Bibliography

 United States department of Justice  -   http://www.usdoj.gov/sitemap/index.html Accessed May 15-24, 2006

On this site I found information about laws passed and criminal charges. There is also information on the kinds of penalties people get and that is determined along with the weight of the crime. 

Youth Gangs & Gang Violence - http://www.k12coordinator.org/onlinece/onlineevnts/gangs_event/id149.htm Accessed May 15-24, 2006

This site contained information on types of youth gangs and what criminal acts they commit. It also deeply describes the types of ethnic groups associated with gangs.

Gangs in the Schools/Erica Digest 99, Eric Clearinghouse - http://www.ericdigests.org/1995-1/gangs.htm Accessed May 15-24, 2006

This site showed me information on violence typically involved in schools. It provided me with plenty of information about the characteristics of gangs and the gangs that run in schools.