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of the reasons behind crime. One such theory is social organization theory, which investigates the contribution of community socia...
religious direction in the lives of modern adolescents are factors that impact whether children turn to delinquency and crime. ...
closely at how and why the dam was built. Glen Canyon Dam One of the most powerful elements, or perspectives, in...
brutalized in this event and the historical record shows that such a background would be historically accurate. Alienated against...
try to negotiate the labels and in fact, they "attempt to disavow their deviant imputations" (Adams, 2003). These theorists do not...
Woodson (2001) presents some startling statistics about the world into which American babies are being born in these opening years...
contend, is fueled by nothing but a lot of "hot air and rhetoric" (Berry, 1995, p. PG). The cycle is not difficult to comprehend:...
national media fascination with the Crips and the Bloods ensured that gang formation would increase and soon be represented throug...
first began to describe a recognizable pattern of birth defects that are attributable to alcohol exposure in the late 1960s. Since...
color as well as students with emotional and behavioral disorders" (Austin, 2003; p. 17)? Can educators achieve better results by...
The film opens with a dramatization of a gang battle that occurred in 1846 between Irish gang, principally the "Dead Rabbits" led ...
own wives for 9/11 widows. While perhaps these individuals were not burned out, one can see how someone in a helping profession ca...
group originally formed spontaneously, and then integrated through conflict" ("Frederic"). According to Thrasher, gangs are charac...
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...
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...
that depression may be a risk factor. Depression causes many different feelings and conditions such as the inability to concentrat...
soul it would seem and clearly accustomed to oppression and anger. He represented the people, the Irish people and others who had ...
opportunities for city residents (Soglin, 2006). This author reports that studies consistently show an inverse relationship betwee...
(Ebert, 1988). As Ebert says in his review, "`The Accused demonstrates that rape victims often are suspects in their own cases. .....
in the Cosa Nostra (John Gotti, 2009). He stood trial several times but was always acquitted, earning him the nickname the "Teflon...
The third point turns to scholarship on youth gangs and the fact that there is no consensus as to the definition of what precisely...
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...
Maintaining the peace is no longer an objective to be fulfilled by law enforcement; todays ever-escalating unruly and violent glob...
The most interesting question is really why people get tattoos or piercings in the first place. Despite claims to the contrary, bo...
Drug use is common among teens today, and most say "pressure usually is the reason for their usage" (Teenage drug abuse, 2004). If...
of behavior upon individual members of the group" (Bursik & Grasmick, 1995, p. 110). Thomas and Znaniecki also included the term ...
This paper consists of ten pages and considers the gangs and the social problems associated with them. Six sources are cited in t...