gangs

Seung-Woo Yang entered the universe of the Korean Yakuza in his teens. A personal tragedy made him start photographing the world, to cement his memories with his friends.

Brazil's largest prison gang, the PCC, has massacred police, shut down cities and controls 60% of Brazil’s cocaine market. VICE meets the organisation's leader, Marcola.

VICE meets Looney, an OG Shoreline Crip from Venice Beach, CA, and learns about his journey from prison to street tattoo artist.

VICE met up with a full-time scammer for a look inside the shady, lucrative world of stealing credit card info on the dark web.

In this episode of Zealandia, VICE embeds with a group of youth offenders growing up among poverty, gangs and boredom and goes deep into the New Zealand bush on an early intervention programme.

VICE followed a young prospect in Brooklyn looking to join the Crips to see what it takes to get initiated, from finding a way to meet gang members to getting "squared in"—a vicious beating at the hands of the members.

Out-of-control gang violence in Chicago; the high human cost of oil piracy in Nigeria.​

VICE News visits Chicago to understand the dynamics at play between the police department and citizens amidst a dramatic spike in gun violence.

VICE News goes undercover to expose the illegal trade in counterfeit money in Peru and gets rare access to the criminal forgers who show us how these bills are made.

Was machst du mit den ganzen Gang-Tattoos, wenn du aus deiner Gang ausgestiegen bist?

VICE News went to Chicago's South Side to investigate the consequences of the city's trauma care desert.

We head to Los Angeles where Homeboy Industries has started a program to help former gang members remove their visible tattoos.