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the Bloods and the Crips, both originating in Los Angeles (Siegel, Welsh & Senna, 2005). Both gangs mentioned expanded to the poi...
misguided ideas about what the discipline is all about. Many consider the science of criminology to be an outdated pseudo-science,...
In seven pages and 3 parts this research paper discusses such sociological issues as ethnomethodology, Hegelian Marxism characteri...
In nine pages this paper presents the pros and cons of loitering laws as a way of protecting urban streets from gang violence. Th...
national media fascination with the Crips and the Bloods ensured that gang formation would increase and soon be represented throug...
gang situation for most of the nation has escalated and California reflects those trends. As a result, specific laws pertaining on...
disintegration exists and how it exists so that effort can be focused to prevent the conflict arising and ensure that there is int...
color as well as students with emotional and behavioral disorders" (Austin, 2003; p. 17)? Can educators achieve better results by...
arrest histories. Background In an effort to prove that the literature is biased when reporting...
opportunities for city residents (Soglin, 2006). This author reports that studies consistently show an inverse relationship betwee...
gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...
In a paper of fifteen pages, the author reflects on the issue of youth violence and the impacts on gang participation. This paper...
is also interesting in light of todays social interaction theories. Both of the above are functionalist theories and from t...
at the functions they serve. Guns serve the function to protect or to allow an individuals to lash out at society. A wife serves t...
home (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 2001). Those who live in poverty have always been the victims of the most violenc...
62 percent of the time" (Tepperman, 1997). Perhaps the worst message of all is that "violence is pleasurable. Clint Eastwood, in D...
Dantzer, 2005). The idea here is that with fewer solid ties to the community, and the lure of easy money, people get lost. They en...
youre that thirteen or fourteen-year-old kid youre probably sitting quietly, trying to wind your thoughts into as tight a package...
in a particular human being, but it recognizes that a set of behaviors, socioeconomic status, biology and so forth create predicto...
enforcement and behavioral experts can better understand the reason for its presence, as well as the best way to approach therapeu...
that it is impossible for a mere individual to resist the monolithic nature of an authoritarian state, also can be interpreted on ...
cultures norms in achieving those goals (Robert Merton: Anomie Theory, 2008). One could perhaps state that, as an example, the soc...
their adolescent years as recidivist delinquents (Scott, 1995). Additionally, a full ninety percent of recidivist adolescent deli...
This research paper pertains to Marvin Wolfgang's theoretical perspective on homicide and focuses on his Subculture of Violence th...
investor may find of concern. The first and most notable issue is the ongoing loss created by the ongoing operations. Knowing the ...
family and friends tend to be more involved in violence. The structure of the prison has been found to have an effect on the amou...
In one page this brief assesses the validity of the Gang Congregation Ordinance of Chicago that prohibits public loitering of stre...
allows others to live peacefully. Incarcerating a rapist or murderer makes certain that no one will be harmed by that individual ...
as Sullivan takes things a step further. He looks at males in three neighborhoods, thus enhancing the possibilities for an expanse...
to find out what kept gangs together (26). These are the questions which most interested these researchers and one can say that in...