Essays 61 - 90
that empower adolescents with the ability to resist peer pressure to join gangs". It does so in an approach that encourages behav...
religious direction in the lives of modern adolescents are factors that impact whether children turn to delinquency and crime. ...
that accounts for gang activity. By studying some of the biggest gangs in the nation, especially those in Chicago (The Latin King...
serious when school students try to express their childish reactions in a more violent way (2002). Columbine was noted, but is onl...
color as well as students with emotional and behavioral disorders" (Austin, 2003; p. 17)? Can educators achieve better results by...
The film opens with a dramatization of a gang battle that occurred in 1846 between Irish gang, principally the "Dead Rabbits" led ...
understand that theirs is a life of devastating poverty and extreme hardship, a life which bears little resemblance to that most o...
contend, is fueled by nothing but a lot of "hot air and rhetoric" (Berry, 1995, p. PG). The cycle is not difficult to comprehend:...
national media fascination with the Crips and the Bloods ensured that gang formation would increase and soon be represented throug...
Woodson (2001) presents some startling statistics about the world into which American babies are being born in these opening years...
111). Social conditions become problematic through systems of communication (Charon). This interactionist perspective is based ...
closely at how and why the dam was built. Glen Canyon Dam One of the most powerful elements, or perspectives, in...
brutalized in this event and the historical record shows that such a background would be historically accurate. Alienated against...
proven detrimental to all Los Angeles communities that become caught in the crossfire of racial discord. So prevalent is the viol...
of the reasons behind crime. One such theory is social organization theory, which investigates the contribution of community socia...
This paper addresses the work, Fear of Crime in the Nineties. The author focuses on the effects of street gangs in inner-city are...
In seven pages this paper examines issues such as drugs and gangs that are plaguing urban schools in terms of various research s...
book as a whole, will take a special look at the role of these women, and how they affected -- or were affected by -- the sordid l...
but commercial burglaries are up (Star Tribune 02B). For many reasons, burglars find commercial establishments a better target th...
Economic and social problems which have an effect on the creation of gangs in both Los Angeles and Chicago are discussed. Politica...
this model in that young people from white, affluent families are now being sucked into the gang culture. Fifteen percent of all s...
In five pages gang socialization and childhood aggression are two of the topics considered in this examination of problem behavior...
familiar with all aspects of the community, even up to the point of knowing community residents by name. The success of community...
In twenty five pages this paper examines U.S. street gangs in a consideration of their origins and their status from a sociologi...
This paper consists of ten pages and considers the gangs and the social problems associated with them. Six sources are cited in t...
In nine pages this paper presents the pros and cons of loitering laws as a way of protecting urban streets from gang violence. Th...
This paper consists of seven pages and examines social theories within the context of teen gang involvement. Four sources are cit...
This paper examines in five pages how gangs are explained through an application of the deviance sociological theory that includes...
In a paper consisting of eight pages the African American gangster and gangs depicted in Boyz 'N the Hood and Hoodlum are contrast...
In fourteen pages this paper discusses how prison gangs blatantly disregard the law in a consideration of member recruitment, empl...