YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Behavior of Gangs
Essays 181 - 210
gang situation for most of the nation has escalated and California reflects those trends. As a result, specific laws pertaining on...
happens is that while gang injunctions prohibit gang-banging activities like vandalism, graffiti, and possessing weapons, the inj...
they seek to deal with problems through violent means. And, considering that their home life is probably less than adequate with a...
This paper examines how Malcolm Klein evaluates gang culture's causes, problems, and what solutions he offers in 7 pages. One sou...
gang members. Over their history they have also been known to unite as in the 1980s when the Gangster Disciples and Latin Disciple...
rather rural or suburban, the state has its share of problems. In fact, in addition to boasting beautiful suburban areas, and vaca...
serious when school students try to express their childish reactions in a more violent way (2002). Columbine was noted, but is onl...
that accounts for gang activity. By studying some of the biggest gangs in the nation, especially those in Chicago (The Latin King...
that empower adolescents with the ability to resist peer pressure to join gangs". It does so in an approach that encourages behav...
religious direction in the lives of modern adolescents are factors that impact whether children turn to delinquency and crime. ...
the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...
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...
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...
understand that theirs is a life of devastating poverty and extreme hardship, a life which bears little resemblance to that most o...
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...
Woodson (2001) presents some startling statistics about the world into which American babies are being born in these opening years...
that adolescence is a time of life that skews peoples thinking. People the age of the Latin Kings have a terrifying illusion of im...
name from its founders Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof; though Baaders girlfriend Gudrun Ensslin is known to have been the "real...
areas. As this summation suggests, in this introductory chapter, the authors show that this topic represents a much more complex ...
gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...
recent national-level data reveal that gang members account for a very small proportion of any individual prison system" (Trulson,...
prostitution, and gambling (Bolz, 1995). They also engage in money laundering schemes (Bolz, 1995). This latter focus is the crux ...
the truly mentally imbalanced individuals with those who displayed antisocial behavior far different from their unstable counterpa...
food poisoning; from that point forward in young Ruth Deanes life, she was controlled by an invisible force that made her life a l...
helped by community members, family members, churches and many other aspects of community. But as society became more complex ther...
those results in greater depth. It must also be remembered that as an integral part of the study it cannot be avoided that the res...
the children in orphanages" (Rieneck). It is not, however, the Irish immigrant or Irish Catholic who are trying to change the regi...