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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...
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...
The film opens with a dramatization of a gang battle that occurred in 1846 between Irish gang, principally the "Dead Rabbits" led ...
This paper examines how Malcolm Klein evaluates gang culture's causes, problems, and what solutions he offers in 7 pages. One sou...
rather rural or suburban, the state has its share of problems. In fact, in addition to boasting beautiful suburban areas, and vaca...
This 6 page paper discusses the development of the gang culture in Shanghai and Los Angeles, the causes of such behavior and the c...
serious when school students try to express their childish reactions in a more violent way (2002). Columbine was noted, but is onl...
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...
gang members. Over their history they have also been known to unite as in the 1980s when the Gangster Disciples and Latin Disciple...
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...
they seek to deal with problems through violent means. And, considering that their home life is probably less than adequate with a...
by Torrio. Through Torrios negotiations agreements were reached with the other gangs participating in Chicagos lucrative bootleggi...
many instances of corporations actually writing legislation favorable to them, though its rarely blatant. Rather, they "remind" th...
The book goes into other companies through history such as the railroad and U.S. Steel. It is a work that examines how the corpora...
The third point turns to scholarship on youth gangs and the fact that there is no consensus as to the definition of what precisely...
Maintaining the peace is no longer an objective to be fulfilled by law enforcement; todays ever-escalating unruly and violent glob...
in the Cosa Nostra (John Gotti, 2009). He stood trial several times but was always acquitted, earning him the nickname the "Teflon...
The most interesting question is really why people get tattoos or piercings in the first place. Despite claims to the contrary, bo...
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...
topic of controversy ever since the group came on the scene in the early 1950s. While members of the gang claim they are simply mo...
arrest histories. Background In an effort to prove that the literature is biased when reporting...
In eleven pages this paper discusses Minnesota's Twin Cities in an organized crime historical overview that includes Machine Gun K...
gangs also adopt certain types of hairstyles, and communicate publicly, through the use of hand signals and graffiti on walls, str...
In six pages this paper presents a detailed overview of juvenile gangs in a consideration of their rituals and activities. Six so...