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Criminal Recidivism

the adults in his life frequently quarrel and vent their frustrations physically; he, or a member of his family, may suffer one or...

Always Running La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. by Luis Rodriguez

In five pages this book on Los Angeles gang life is analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

Gang Violence and Laws Prohibiting Loitering

In nine pages this paper presents the pros and cons of loitering laws as a way of protecting urban streets from gang violence. Th...

Gangs and Teen Involvement

This paper consists of seven pages and examines social theories within the context of teen gang involvement. Four sources are cit...

Sociological View of American Street Gangs

In twenty five pages this paper examines U.S. street gangs in a consideration of their origins and their status from a sociologi...

Fundamental Differences in Suburban Gangs

this model in that young people from white, affluent families are now being sucked into the gang culture. Fifteen percent of all s...

Gangs Explained Through Deviance Sociological Theory

This paper examines in five pages how gangs are explained through an application of the deviance sociological theory that includes...

Films and African American Gangsters Past and Present

In a paper consisting of eight pages the African American gangster and gangs depicted in Boyz 'N the Hood and Hoodlum are contrast...

Organized Crime Syndicates and Commercial Burglaries

but commercial burglaries are up (Star Tribune 02B). For many reasons, burglars find commercial establishments a better target th...

Values and Women in The Westies by T.J. English

book as a whole, will take a special look at the role of these women, and how they affected -- or were affected by -- the sordid l...

Gangs and Teens

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

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...

Organized Crime in Japan and the Yakuza

The Yakuza organized crime organizations of Japan are discussed in twenty five pages in an overview of history, participation, gan...

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 ...

Types of Terrorism

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

Reaction: “The Heart Broken in Half”

that adolescence is a time of life that skews peoples thinking. People the age of the Latin Kings have a terrifying illusion of im...

Scorsese/Gangs of New York

the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...

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. ...

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...

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...

Immigration and the Gangs of New York

The film opens with a dramatization of a gang battle that occurred in 1846 between Irish gang, principally the "Dead Rabbits" led ...

Chapter Summaries of a Text on Youth Gangs

The third point turns to scholarship on youth gangs and the fact that there is no consensus as to the definition of what precisely...

Nace: “Gangs of America”

many instances of corporations actually writing legislation favorable to them, though its rarely blatant. Rather, they "remind" th...

Gangs of America

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...

John Gotti and Theories of Crime

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

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...