Since the modern use of technology and modern day social media networks, terrorist groups have reached well beyond any geographic boundary to recruit membership. However, understanding common points of intersection with gang recruitment techniques may shed some light on how to thwart terroristic recruitment schemes. This paper uses a comparative approach to examine U.S. gangs and terror group's recruitment. The analysis provided essential information on points of intersection as well as divergence. Using U.S. gangs as a baseline for terror group's recruitment sheds light on various factors that may require additional mechanisms to dismantle highly embedded and legitimized religious and cultural underpinnings.