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Youth Gangs in American Society

areas. As this summation suggests, in this introductory chapter, the authors show that this topic represents a much more complex ...

Leon Bing/Do or Die/Youth Gangs

youre that thirteen or fourteen-year-old kid youre probably sitting quietly, trying to wind your thoughts into as tight a package...

Street Gangs and Juvenile Delinquency

not career criminals. While the label does have a negative connotation, it is not the same as calling someone a murderer or a thie...

Chapter Summaries of a Text on Youth Gangs

The third point turns to scholarship on youth gangs and the fact that there is no consensus as to the definition of what precisely...

Black Youth Gangs in Toronto

reputed leader of a Tamil gang whose pitched battles with rival gangs on the streets of Toronto claimed the "lives of more than a...

19th and 20th Century Asian-American Gangs

7 pages in length. The existing and ever-growing power of Asian-American gangs during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have...

Juvenile Gang Activity

While gangs are a part and parcel of the culture today, the concept of juvenile delinquency is rather elusive. Many do not dub chi...

Baltimore Juveniles and Gangs

attention in their federal death penalty trial in the U.S. District Court in Baltimore. Michael L. Taylor and Keon D. Moses start...

California Gangs

In six pages California's gang problems are examined in a discussion of youth gang activity methods of coontrol. Eleven sources a...

Anne Moody's 'Coming of Age in Mississippi'

This is a 5 page book review in which the author relates her own upbringing which is in sharp contrast to most members of American...

Organized Crime Syndicates and Commercial Burglaries

but commercial burglaries are up (Star Tribune 02B). For many reasons, burglars find commercial establishments a better target th...

Multiagency Intervention To Reduce Gang Activities

of these facets of the state have emerged over hundreds of years of history (Rodriguez, 2005). These events have all contributed t...

Deviance Across Cultures: Girl Gangs Around the World

feud between rival families of the Camorra crime syndicate" exploded in a small town outside Naples (Israely, 2002, p. 32). The le...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Social Learning Theory in '8 Ball Chicks'

there is nothing else "but us" to provide protection, safety and survival for the girls who join gangs. Within those gangs, they ...

Female Gangs; Social and Historical CausesGirl Gangs, Historical and Social Causes

This paper examines the reality of female gangs. The author addresses social and historical reasons for their inception, as well ...

Cherokee Influences on Colonial Settlers

This paper addresses Native American Culture and its impact on colonial American society. The author discusses various ways in wh...

Religion in the History of Early America

faculties, they "won admirers by their eloquence" (Norton et al 33). The Jesuits drew on science to predict "solar and lunar eclip...

Society

for its own good, or the good of the world. The American society is the largest consumer society in the world and they have gene...

120 Years of American History

interrupted by the First, and especially the Second World War, when women in large numbers went to work for the first time. Many ...

How to Prevent Youth Recruitment by The Bloods

the Bloods and the Crips, both originating in Los Angeles (Siegel, Welsh & Senna, 2005). Both gangs mentioned expanded to the poi...

AB 2989: Outdoor Environmental Education And Recreation Program

to outdoor environmental education and recreation programs in the quest to reacquaint them with appropriate social behaviors in an...

Reaction Papers for Two Work

This 5 page paper gives an example of two reaction papers. This paper includes a paper on both writings, A Post-Racial Society in ...

Critically Examining America's Juvenile Gangs

also by engaging in certain activities or behavior patterns (1999). Also, gangs are universally loyal to their neighborhood, and ...

New Jersey and Juvenile Delinquency In New Jersey

In nine pages this paper examines the problem of juvenile delinquency in American society with the primary focus being upon the yo...

Why Adolecents Commit Crimes

is about one-fourth of the entire population. Of those, over two million are arrested each year. That accounts for about 17 percen...

Cinema, American Youth, and Rebellion Against Authority

nation was ready for new and innovative ideas which lead to new attitudes. Immediately following the war and through the decade o...

Youth Influence on American Society

war. At the end of the war, the social problems which had been suppressed during that time, became a part of the new focus of the...

Los Angeles' Youth Gangs

proven detrimental to all Los Angeles communities that become caught in the crossfire of racial discord. So prevalent is the viol...

Gangs and At-Risk Youths A Comparative Attitudes Study

Woodson (2001) presents some startling statistics about the world into which American babies are being born in these opening years...