YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Social Problem of Gang Violence
Essays 301 - 330
a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...
counterparts, in that it relates to emotions the students are only just beginning to cultivate. Indeed, college-aged children, wh...
Plant nothing else, and root out everything else... Stick to Facts" (Dickens 1). For Dickens, this was an atrocity of monumental ...
life-threatening..." (Merta, 2001, p.1). In Time magazine, Lopez (1999) reports on one police officers journey through the drug c...
related industries such as welfare and social workers. This theory was expanded by other theorists to cover deviance and conflic...
the main causes" (Morris, 1998, p. 241) to which women attribute their homelessness. Families with children, a population that re...
greater importance are the collective changes in social structures and expectations that lead to increasingly sedentary lifestyles...
the Tonight Show audience with a blazing solo (Jerome, Cheakakos and Horsburgh 131). At ten years old, Jacob signed a contract wit...
percent in 2004 (Spriggs, 2006). Beckley (2007) discusses that based on federal government measurements - known as the poverty li...
with links to Silicon Valley, but the "ripple effect" carried over into the myriad support businesses that depended on the revenue...
In five pages this paper examines the contemporary world and the social problem of marriage. Four sources are cited in the biblio...
people to make their own destinies - to follow whatever dreams they may have kept harbored deep inside for fear that they would ne...
universality of Islam, tending to believe it is a "grim and stern faith, given to forcible conversions, appalling treatment of wom...
where Irish American presence was predominant well into the 1980s. The organized crime studies that discuss connections between n...
of appropriate parental guidance and role models that makes certain youths choose lives of violence. In the Old West violen...
267). In other words, scholarship points out that men today are faced with a plethora of conflicting societal messages. They are...
Disease Control and Prevention, impacts almost twenty-five percent of American women who are reported to have been abused at some ...
This research paper addresses two topics, delinquency and gang membership, and drug prevention programs, such as DARE, focusing on...
in the Cosa Nostra (John Gotti, 2009). He stood trial several times but was always acquitted, earning him the nickname the "Teflon...
the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...
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:...
Woodson (2001) presents some startling statistics about the world into which American babies are being born in these opening years...
This 6 page paper discusses the development of the gang culture in Shanghai and Los Angeles, the causes of such behavior and the c...
In eleven pages this paper discusses Minnesota's Twin Cities in an organized crime historical overview that includes Machine Gun K...
areas. As this summation suggests, in this introductory chapter, the authors show that this topic represents a much more complex ...
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 ...
this model in that young people from white, affluent families are now being sucked into the gang culture. Fifteen percent of all s...
This paper addresses the work, Fear of Crime in the Nineties. The author focuses on the effects of street gangs in inner-city are...