Essays 31 - 60
their adolescent years as recidivist delinquents (Scott, 1995). Additionally, a full ninety percent of recidivist adolescent deli...
The Gwinnett police and the Office of the District Attorney are apparently working together, and working hard, to ensure that gang...
youre that thirteen or fourteen-year-old kid youre probably sitting quietly, trying to wind your thoughts into as tight a package...
attention in their federal death penalty trial in the U.S. District Court in Baltimore. Michael L. Taylor and Keon D. Moses start...
In five pages this research paper examines gang participation as it pertains to girls with backgrounds, home life, and abuse among...
Juvenile delinquency and gang violence are subjects discussed in the scope of this research report. Legal reassures, prevention an...
In six pages California's gang problems are examined in a discussion of youth gang activity methods of coontrol. Eleven sources a...
In twenty two pages this research paper analyzes the criminal behavior of so called 'biker gangs' in terms of history and certain ...
has been suggested that standard theories were used to explain the delinquency of males, and that the delinquency of females shoul...
This paper examines the reality of female gangs. The author addresses social and historical reasons for their inception, as well ...
to find out what kept gangs together (26). These are the questions which most interested these researchers and one can say that in...
as Sullivan takes things a step further. He looks at males in three neighborhoods, thus enhancing the possibilities for an expanse...
not leniency, indeed it is stiffened penalties for criminal behavior. A very important component of those penalties is the use of...
In one page this brief assesses the validity of the Gang Congregation Ordinance of Chicago that prohibits public loitering of stre...
gangs" ("Gangs," 2003). Rival gangs include the Irish and the Natives, two groups that were usually present, but again, not the on...
where Irish American presence was predominant well into the 1980s. The organized crime studies that discuss connections between n...
seems to conspire against them achieving a desired goal. However, Perrows main point here is to illustrate that there...
is any action that is against the laws of the land, and as such needs to be a social construct as it is the laws that are develope...
exchange for money and in the absence of an existing social relationship is deviant in comparison with the normative culture. But...
the subject. When approximations become regular, the psychologist the changes the expectations, and redirects the subject to an e...
of the most commonly applied sociological theories brought forth from the Schools influence and provide a closer look at the resul...
upon individuals within a group" (Wong, 2005). This theory lays the blame for delinquent behavior on the community, which was una...
In ten pages commitment and labeling theories are applied to a discussion of deviance and its various concepts and what constitute...
of solidarity in terms of society in general. But, according to Durkheims theorizing, it is not necessarily a beneficial transitio...
In five pages this paper considers college campus's sociocultural norms in an application of Merton's deviance theory. One source...
desire for material security, success, and comfort on one hand, and limited opportunities to achieve these things on the other han...
that when ones family are starving, working for the money is what becomes paramount. One cannot feed ones family on soviet rhetori...
In ten pages this paper examines criminology in this theoretical overview that discusses conflict, social process, cultural devian...
In eight pages the deviance concept is examined in an overview that discusses various factors such as the labeling theory with an ...
In eight pages sociological theories by Becker, Marx, and Weber are discussed in terms of how they relate to issues including soci...