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the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...
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 ...
Maintaining the peace is no longer an objective to be fulfilled by law enforcement; todays ever-escalating unruly and violent glob...
opportunities for city residents (Soglin, 2006). This author reports that studies consistently show an inverse relationship betwee...
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...
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 ...
that empower adolescents with the ability to resist peer pressure to join gangs". It does so in an approach that encourages behav...
that accounts for gang activity. By studying some of the biggest gangs in the nation, especially those in Chicago (The Latin King...
they seek to deal with problems through violent means. And, considering that their home life is probably less than adequate with a...
gang situation for most of the nation has escalated and California reflects those trends. As a result, specific laws pertaining on...
happens is that while gang injunctions prohibit gang-banging activities like vandalism, graffiti, and possessing weapons, the inj...
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...
gang members. Over their history they have also been known to unite as in the 1980s when the Gangster Disciples and Latin Disciple...
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...
In six pages this paper presents a detailed overview of juvenile gangs in a consideration of their rituals and activities. Six so...
In ten pages this paper examines how adolescents are affected by gang membership and culture. Six sources are listed in the bibli...
In fifteen pages this paper applies the anomie theory of Robert K. Merton to the issue of gang violence with 5 crucial adaptations...
In eleven pages this paper discusses Minnesota's Twin Cities in an organized crime historical overview that includes Machine Gun K...
In 5 pages Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony are compared and contrasted iin order to evalu...
our complex world. Lets look at a few of them. Gang membership: Teams at several universities collaborated in studies of the Caus...
In five pages this controversial 1994 California state law is examined, assessed in terms of whether or not it has been successful...