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religious direction in the lives of modern adolescents are factors that impact whether children turn to delinquency and crime. ...
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 ...
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...
city" (Duke, 2000, 3). Most people became familiar with such locations during the 1960s and 1970s when the so-called "white flight...
by Torrio. Through Torrios negotiations agreements were reached with the other gangs participating in Chicagos lucrative bootleggi...
they seek to deal with problems through violent means. And, considering that their home life is probably less than adequate with a...
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 ...
serious when school students try to express their childish reactions in a more violent way (2002). Columbine was noted, but is onl...
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...
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...
that empower adolescents with the ability to resist peer pressure to join gangs". It does so in an approach that encourages behav...
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 five pages this book on Los Angeles gang life is analyzed. There are no other sources listed....
In seven pages this paper examines issues such as drugs and gangs that are plaguing urban schools in terms of various research s...
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...