Special report: Why students join criminal gangs

The report says students join bad groups and criminal gangs to make money and to fight rejection.photo:courtesy

Absentee parents, peer pressure, poverty and attempts to cope with rejection were cited among factors driving students to join criminal gangs.

A report compiled by a special team set up by the Ministry of Education to investigate a wave of arson that hit schools last year found that students join terrorist organisations and criminal gangs because of peer pressure, heroism, lack of guidance and poverty.