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Essays 61 - 90
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 ...
gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...
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...
name from its founders Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof; though Baaders girlfriend Gudrun Ensslin is known to have been the "real...
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:...
111). Social conditions become problematic through systems of communication (Charon). This interactionist perspective is based ...
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...
of the reasons behind crime. One such theory is social organization theory, which investigates the contribution of community socia...
the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...
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...
they seek to deal with problems through violent means. And, considering that their home life is probably less than adequate with a...
serious when school students try to express their childish reactions in a more violent way (2002). Columbine was noted, but is onl...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
gang members. Over their history they have also been known to unite as in the 1980s when the Gangster Disciples and Latin Disciple...