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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...

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...

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...

The Silver Cloud Cafe by Alfredo Vea Jr.

by brackets and flashed brightly to mimic the image in paint" (7). Characters Its characters include a Chicano lawyer and a Jewis...

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...

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...

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...

Social Violence

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

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...

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...

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...

Increase In Downtown Crime: Comprehensive Combat Strategy

Maintaining the peace is no longer an objective to be fulfilled by law enforcement; todays ever-escalating unruly and violent glob...

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...

Gang-Rape on Screen

(Ebert, 1988). As Ebert says in his review, "`The Accused demonstrates that rape victims often are suspects in their own cases. .....

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...

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...

Gangs and Social Jusitce

In a paper of fifteen pages, the author reflects on the issue of youth violence and the impacts on gang participation. This paper...

History of New York Gangs

This research paper presents a brief overview of the history of New York gangs, beginning in the early nineteenth century, discuss...

African Americans' Involvement in the American Revolution

This essay uses research to discuss the experiences of African Americans who enlisted in the British army in order to obtain their...

Post Revolutionary American and the Roles Played by Native Americans and African Americans

extent of freedom. With more and more populations becoming indigenous by virtue of their longevity in America, a blending of cult...

1st Generation Indian Americans, Chinese Americans, and Japanese Americans

traditions and societies" (Said, 1979, pp. 45-6). Nakashima (2001) touches upon an issue that has long eluded multicultural...

Early 1900s' South to North African American Migration Compared with European Americans' Movement

laborers, domestic servants, families - all made the monumental decision to search out a better life. Regardless of the quest for ...

Comparative Analysis of Chinese American, Black American, and Native American Experiences

This paper consists of five pages and contrasts and compares the socioeconomic, historical, and ideological factors associated wit...

Scott R. Sanders, The Common Life

ties to his community. Examination of Sanders points show that individualism is not the problem. Sanders begins his essay by des...

Congestion Pricing for Lower Manhattan

is: ...the practice of charging motorists more to use a roadway, bridge or tunnel during periods of the heaviest use. Its purpose ...

Literature of the New American Republic

commentators argued throughout the 1820s and 30s that there should be works of literature to match "emerging political greatness o...

Marriage in the Work of Crane and James

in any manner. This story primarily offers one foundational marriage and that is the marriage of Maggies parents. It is really t...