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Gang Violence and the Anomie Theory of Robert K. Merton

In fifteen pages this paper applies the anomie theory of Robert K. Merton to the issue of gang violence with 5 crucial adaptations...

Major Causes of Juvenile Delinquency Overview

our complex world. Lets look at a few of them. Gang membership: Teams at several universities collaborated in studies of the Caus...

Gangs and California's 'Three Strikes and You're Out' Law

In five pages this controversial 1994 California state law is examined, assessed in terms of whether or not it has been successful...

Comparing Tradition and Land Lovers

In 5 pages Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony are compared and contrasted iin order to evalu...

Gangs and Sociology

This paper consists of three pages and examines the similarities and differences that exist regarding gangs that are criminal, vio...

St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Organized Crime

In eleven pages this paper discusses Minnesota's Twin Cities in an organized crime historical overview that includes Machine Gun K...

Definition of Juvenile Gangs and Their Social Implications

gangs also adopt certain types of hairstyles, and communicate publicly, through the use of hand signals and graffiti on walls, str...

Sociologist Malcolm Klein on Gang Culture as a Social Problem

This paper examines how Malcolm Klein evaluates gang culture's causes, problems, and what solutions he offers in 7 pages. One sou...

Shanghai and Los Angeles Gangs

This 6 page paper discusses the development of the gang culture in Shanghai and Los Angeles, the causes of such behavior and the c...

Lois W. Johnson/Trouble at Wild River

her mothers home country of Sweden. Ben had the "America fever" and stole the money in order to obtain passage to the US (Johnson ...

Evaluation of a Prevention Program

the standards of utility, feasibility, propriety and accuracy (CDC, 1999). These standards are defined by the CDC in the followin...

Teen Drinking

Journal, 2001). This phenomena is of serious concern in that it is not only life threatening but is increasing on a world wide ba...

Community Health & Teen Pregnancy

situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...

Intervention: Teen Problem

he was only looking for a pencil and piece of paper so that he could leave a note for his friend, the parents child but yet, "On t...

Teen Intervention

not get involved in another persons problems or business. There is the option of talking to ones son about the boy and determining...

Human Development and Growth, Sexual Orientation, and Identity

his head, and at the age of 14 took his own life. Erikson states that during adolescence the child leaves behind one type of ide...

Teens and Premarital Sex

1997). Societal factors as a whole, however, bear examination in regard to their impact on this phenomena. Not only must parents...

Social Issues, Public Policy, and Teenage Pregnancy

p. 685). American Demographics reports that a significant trend is the rising rate of teenage pregnancies among Latinos (Suro, 19...

Comparative Analysis of Adult Pregnancy and Teen Pregnancy

times more births among junior high school girls and two and a half times more births among senior high school girls than do the g...

Promotion of Contraceptives in Chicago Marketing Plan

age of 15, "compared with 21 percent of Hispanics and 16 percent of non-Hispanic whites" (Non-Hispanic black teens, 2003; p. 7). ...

Aggression and Peer Rejection

acts of violence resulting "from ones reduced ability to regulate the expression of aggressive behavior in interpersonal situation...

Teens and the Internet

the social skills that one to one contact would offer them. As such, then, these teens are not able to effectively reach out emoti...

Teen Drug Use and Its Effects

people 21 and older * Underage drinking costs the United States more than $58 billion every year - enough to buy every public scho...

Overview of Teen Pregnancies and Impact Upon Families

group, as expected, there are quite a bit of pregnancies for the teenagers. This is true despite the fact that there is a decline ...

Adults, Adolescents, and Smoking

22.4% (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004). Cigarettes, once considered glamorous and chic, have emerged as t...

Aboriginal Community Needs Assessment

of Australian society. Racism is, in fact, one of the primary shapers of contemporary Australian society. In the nineteenth cent...

Government Prohibition of Tobacco Advertising and its Youth Impact

al determined, for example, that prior smoking behavior of a family ended up being the most important psychosocial predictor of fu...

Intervention and Teenage Pregnancy

needs to be done in this area. Table 1 illustrates the distribution of teen pregnancies by ethnic group. Table 1. Teen Pregnanci...

North America's Teenage Consumers

points out that an ideal engine, in optimum condition could theoretically conceive 100 percent efficiency, but that real-world req...

Teen Angst Theatrical Screenplay Scene

minutes, so try and act decent. Like, dont pick your nose or nothin. BOOMER: (pulls grass from the back of Angies hair) Wearing gr...