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This research paper addresses two topics, delinquency and gang membership, and drug prevention programs, such as DARE, focusing on...
they seek to deal with problems through violent means. And, considering that their home life is probably less than adequate with a...
happens is that while gang injunctions prohibit gang-banging activities like vandalism, graffiti, and possessing weapons, the inj...
gang situation for most of the nation has escalated and California reflects those trends. As a result, specific laws pertaining on...
that accounts for gang activity. By studying some of the biggest gangs in the nation, especially those in Chicago (The Latin King...
that empower adolescents with the ability to resist peer pressure to join gangs". It does so in an approach that encourages behav...
the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...
religious direction in the lives of modern adolescents are factors that impact whether children turn to delinquency and crime. ...
Woodson (2001) presents some startling statistics about the world into which American babies are being born in these opening years...
national media fascination with the Crips and the Bloods ensured that gang formation would increase and soon be represented throug...
contend, is fueled by nothing but a lot of "hot air and rhetoric" (Berry, 1995, p. PG). The cycle is not difficult to comprehend:...
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...
by Torrio. Through Torrios negotiations agreements were reached with the other gangs participating in Chicagos lucrative bootleggi...
city" (Duke, 2000, 3). Most people became familiar with such locations during the 1960s and 1970s when the so-called "white flight...
own wives for 9/11 widows. While perhaps these individuals were not burned out, one can see how someone in a helping profession ca...
disintegration exists and how it exists so that effort can be focused to prevent the conflict arising and ensure that there is int...
The film opens with a dramatization of a gang battle that occurred in 1846 between Irish gang, principally the "Dead Rabbits" led ...
color as well as students with emotional and behavioral disorders" (Austin, 2003; p. 17)? Can educators achieve better results by...
name from its founders Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof; though Baaders girlfriend Gudrun Ensslin is known to have been the "real...
recent national-level data reveal that gang members account for a very small proportion of any individual prison system" (Trulson,...
prostitution, and gambling (Bolz, 1995). They also engage in money laundering schemes (Bolz, 1995). This latter focus is the crux ...
areas. As this summation suggests, in this introductory chapter, the authors show that this topic represents a much more complex ...
that adolescence is a time of life that skews peoples thinking. People the age of the Latin Kings have a terrifying illusion of im...
soul it would seem and clearly accustomed to oppression and anger. He represented the people, the Irish people and others who had ...
opportunities for city residents (Soglin, 2006). This author reports that studies consistently show an inverse relationship betwee...
figure would increase greatly in coming years (Cohen, 2003). There are twelve basic areas of social work practice, with each ar...
the intricacies of the situation to take a higher-level view and make higher-level decisions. Relevance of Culture and Diversity i...
conditions may worsen and require treatment which will be more costly for the state or healthcare provider. This is unlikely to ha...