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An Analysis of 'Angeles and Insects' by A.S. Byatt

and Byatt makes it clear that both viewpoints are essential. "Morpho Eugenia" tells the story of a Victorian scientist, Wi...

Cumberland County, New Jersey, and Crime

rather rural or suburban, the state has its share of problems. In fact, in addition to boasting beautiful suburban areas, and vaca...

Gangs and Children

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

Gang Prevention Programs in Schools and an Article Review of 'How Great is G.R.E.A.T. (Gang resistance education and training)?'

that empower adolescents with the ability to resist peer pressure to join gangs". It does so in an approach that encourages behav...

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...

America's Latino Gang History

gang members. Over their history they have also been known to unite as in the 1980s when the Gangster Disciples and Latin Disciple...

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...

Issues Pertaining to Crisis Communication

own wives for 9/11 widows. While perhaps these individuals were not burned out, one can see how someone in a helping profession ca...

Street Gangs and Racism

disintegration exists and how it exists so that effort can be focused to prevent the conflict arising and ensure that there is int...

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...

Violence at Schools/Research Issues

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

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 ...

A History of American Organized Crime

by Torrio. Through Torrios negotiations agreements were reached with the other gangs participating in Chicagos lucrative bootleggi...

Drugs, Gangs, and Philadelphia's 'Badlands'

city" (Duke, 2000, 3). Most people became familiar with such locations during the 1960s and 1970s when the so-called "white flight...

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...

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...

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...

Juvenile Gangs and Sociocultural Forces

understand that theirs is a life of devastating poverty and extreme hardship, a life which bears little resemblance to that most o...

Crime, Gangs, and Law Enforcement Strategies That are Ethnic and Race Specific

contend, is fueled by nothing but a lot of "hot air and rhetoric" (Berry, 1995, p. PG). The cycle is not difficult to comprehend:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Gang Problem and Cooperation Between Community and Police

familiar with all aspects of the community, even up to the point of knowing community residents by name. The success of community...

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...

Gang Problems

This paper consists of ten pages and considers the gangs and the social problems associated with them. Six sources are cited in t...