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(Modern Art Movements, 2008). Impressionist painters, such as Manet, Claude Monet and Edgar Degas, preferred to paint outside, w...

This followed along with the theories that crises can lead to more serious disorders and can have long-term effects (Myer and Moo...

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 ...

of the reasons behind crime. One such theory is social organization theory, which investigates the contribution of community socia...

proven detrimental to all Los Angeles communities that become caught in the crossfire of racial discord. So prevalent is the viol...

religious direction in the lives of modern adolescents are factors that impact whether children turn to delinquency and crime. ...

soul it would seem and clearly accustomed to oppression and anger. He represented the people, the Irish people and others who had ...

be. 2. Agricultural economic base and need for labor. 3. Slavery introduced with indentured servants. Taken to the next level in ...

that accounts for gang activity. By studying some of the biggest gangs in the nation, especially those in Chicago (The Latin King...

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...

serious when school students try to express their childish reactions in a more violent way (2002). Columbine was noted, but is onl...

recent national-level data reveal that gang members account for a very small proportion of any individual prison system" (Trulson,...

name from its founders Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof; though Baaders girlfriend Gudrun Ensslin is known to have been the "real...

Woodson (2001) presents some startling statistics about the world into which American babies are being born in these opening years...

national media fascination with the Crips and the Bloods ensured that gang formation would increase and soon be represented throug...

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:...

The most interesting question is really why people get tattoos or piercings in the first place. Despite claims to the contrary, bo...

Maintaining the peace is no longer an objective to be fulfilled by law enforcement; todays ever-escalating unruly and violent glob...

Huxley considers how the survival of a democracy depends upon frequent information exchanges, which is what made the medium of tel...

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...

in the Cosa Nostra (John Gotti, 2009). He stood trial several times but was always acquitted, earning him the nickname the "Teflon...

color as well as students with emotional and behavioral disorders" (Austin, 2003; p. 17)? Can educators achieve better results by...

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...