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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...

Community Profile: Juvenile Threat

gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...

Youth Gangs in American Society

areas. As this summation suggests, in this introductory chapter, the authors show that this topic represents a much more complex ...

Prison Gangs and Their Effect on Prison Populations

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

Street Gangs and Organized Crime

prostitution, and gambling (Bolz, 1995). They also engage in money laundering schemes (Bolz, 1995). This latter focus is the crux ...

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...

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...

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...

Gangs and Sociology

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

Overview of Juvenile Gangs

In six pages this paper presents a detailed overview of juvenile gangs in a consideration of their rituals and activities. Six so...

Juveniles and the Impact of Gang Culture

In ten pages this paper examines how adolescents are affected by gang membership and culture. Six sources are listed in the bibli...

Gangs and Teens

Sociological theories are applied to this consideration of teen involvement in gangs in a paper consisting of seven pages. There ...

Research on Gangs as it Relates to Critical Theory

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

Examining Latino Girl Gangs

In five pages the girl gangs that have emerged in the Latino community are examined in a correlation between membership and juveni...

Gangs and Gender Variations

This paper analyzes the gender differences that exist between male and female American gangs in eleven pages. Seven sources are c...

Female Participation in Basketball

can manifest itself in numerous ways, each as tragic and as unfair as the other. Women who play in the eight-team Womens Na...

Social Violence

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

California's Inmate Population and Gang Legislation

gang situation for most of the nation has escalated and California reflects those trends. As a result, specific laws pertaining on...

California's Anti Gang Injunctions and Whether or Not They Are Practical

happens is that while gang injunctions prohibit gang-banging activities like vandalism, graffiti, and possessing weapons, the inj...

Los Angeles' Youth Gangs

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

Environmental Conditions of Glen Canyon Dam

closely at how and why the dam was built. Glen Canyon Dam One of the most powerful elements, or perspectives, in...

Reality and Hispanic Cinema

brutalized in this event and the historical record shows that such a background would be historically accurate. Alienated against...

The Social Problem of Gang Violence

111). Social conditions become problematic through systems of communication (Charon). This interactionist perspective is based ...

Social Organization Theory and Crime Causation

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

Is the Need for Affiliation the Reason for Gang Creation?

they seek to deal with problems through violent means. And, considering that their home life is probably less than adequate with a...

Hunter Thompson and The Hells Angels

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...

Crime Rates HIgher Among Ethnic Groups

arrest histories. Background In an effort to prove that the literature is biased when reporting...

Gangs and At-Risk Youths A Comparative Attitudes Study

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

Law Enforcement and Gang Violence

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