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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 this book on Los Angeles gang life is analyzed. There are no other sources listed....
the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...
name from its founders Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof; though Baaders girlfriend Gudrun Ensslin is known to have been the "real...
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 ...
closely at how and why the dam was built. Glen Canyon Dam One of the most powerful elements, or perspectives, in...
of the reasons behind crime. One such theory is social organization theory, which investigates the contribution of community socia...
brutalized in this event and the historical record shows that such a background would be historically accurate. Alienated against...
religious direction in the lives of modern adolescents are factors that impact whether children turn to delinquency and crime. ...
opportunities for city residents (Soglin, 2006). This author reports that studies consistently show an inverse relationship betwee...
soul it would seem and clearly accustomed to oppression and anger. He represented the people, the Irish people and others who had ...
recent national-level data reveal that gang members account for a very small proportion of any individual prison system" (Trulson,...
The most interesting question is really why people get tattoos or piercings in the first place. Despite claims to the contrary, bo...
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...
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:...
Woodson (2001) presents some startling statistics about the world into which American babies are being born in these opening years...
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...
serious when school students try to express their childish reactions in a more violent way (2002). Columbine was noted, but is onl...
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...
by Torrio. Through Torrios negotiations agreements were reached with the other gangs participating in Chicagos lucrative bootleggi...
own wives for 9/11 widows. While perhaps these individuals were not burned out, one can see how someone in a helping profession ca...
they seek to deal with problems through violent means. And, considering that their home life is probably less than adequate with a...
group originally formed spontaneously, and then integrated through conflict" ("Frederic"). According to Thrasher, gangs are charac...
topic of controversy ever since the group came on the scene in the early 1950s. While members of the gang claim they are simply mo...