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arrest histories. Background In an effort to prove that the literature is biased when reporting...
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...
Maintaining the peace is no longer an objective to be fulfilled by law enforcement; todays ever-escalating unruly and violent glob...
in the Cosa Nostra (John Gotti, 2009). He stood trial several times but was always acquitted, earning him the nickname the "Teflon...
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...
contend, is fueled by nothing but a lot of "hot air and rhetoric" (Berry, 1995, p. PG). The cycle is not difficult to comprehend:...
understand that theirs is a life of devastating poverty and extreme hardship, a life which bears little resemblance to that most o...
national media fascination with the Crips and the Bloods ensured that gang formation would increase and soon be represented throug...
Woodson (2001) presents some startling statistics about the world into which American babies are being born in these opening years...
closely at how and why the dam was built. Glen Canyon Dam One of the most powerful elements, or perspectives, in...
111). Social conditions become problematic through systems of communication (Charon). This interactionist perspective is based ...
proven detrimental to all Los Angeles communities that become caught in the crossfire of racial discord. So prevalent is the viol...
of the reasons behind crime. One such theory is social organization theory, which investigates the contribution of community socia...
This 6 page paper discusses the development of the gang culture in Shanghai and Los Angeles, the causes of such behavior and the c...
This paper examines how Malcolm Klein evaluates gang culture's causes, problems, and what solutions he offers in 7 pages. One sou...
In eleven pages this paper discusses Minnesota's Twin Cities in an organized crime historical overview that includes Machine Gun K...
gangs also adopt certain types of hairstyles, and communicate publicly, through the use of hand signals and graffiti on walls, str...
This research paper presents a brief overview of the history of New York gangs, beginning in the early nineteenth century, discuss...
In a paper of fifteen pages, the author reflects on the issue of youth violence and the impacts on gang participation. This paper...
This research paper addresses two topics, delinquency and gang membership, and drug prevention programs, such as DARE, focusing on...
extent of freedom. With more and more populations becoming indigenous by virtue of their longevity in America, a blending of cult...
traditions and societies" (Said, 1979, pp. 45-6). Nakashima (2001) touches upon an issue that has long eluded multicultural...
This paper consists of five pages and contrasts and compares the socioeconomic, historical, and ideological factors associated wit...
laborers, domestic servants, families - all made the monumental decision to search out a better life. Regardless of the quest for ...
This essay uses research to discuss the experiences of African Americans who enlisted in the British army in order to obtain their...
In ten pages the ways in which law enforcement agencies are attempting to curb drug dealing at the street level are assessed based...
investigators, including federal agents, at the scene, all anybody found on his decimated body was his wallet and a beeper. And be...
The government of Singapore maintains excellent information in a wealth of categories. Some Asian governments are less then forth...
That was before the Wall Street meltdown, however. Credit markets already were tightening as investors came to wonder about the r...