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L.A. and Chicago Gangs

Economic and social problems which have an effect on the creation of gangs in both Los Angeles and Chicago are discussed. Politica...

Fundamental Differences in Suburban Gangs

this model in that young people from white, affluent families are now being sucked into the gang culture. Fifteen percent of all s...

Problem Behavior and Social Cognition

In five pages gang socialization and childhood aggression are two of the topics considered in this examination of problem behavior...

Gang Problem and Cooperation Between Community and Police

familiar with all aspects of the community, even up to the point of knowing community residents by name. The success of community...

Gangs and Teens

Sociological theories are applied to this consideration of teen involvement in gangs in a paper consisting of seven pages. There ...

Inner City Schools and Survival

In seven pages this paper examines issues such as drugs and gangs that are plaguing urban schools in terms of various research s...

Gangs and Gender Variations

This paper analyzes the gender differences that exist between male and female American gangs in eleven pages. Seven sources are c...

Female Participation in Basketball

can manifest itself in numerous ways, each as tragic and as unfair as the other. Women who play in the eight-team Womens Na...

Organized Crime in Japan and the Yakuza

The Yakuza organized crime organizations of Japan are discussed in twenty five pages in an overview of history, participation, gan...

Gangs and Children

that accounts for gang activity. By studying some of the biggest gangs in the nation, especially those in Chicago (The Latin King...

Gang Prevention Programs in Schools and an Article Review of 'How Great is G.R.E.A.T. (Gang resistance education and training)?'

that empower adolescents with the ability to resist peer pressure to join gangs". It does so in an approach that encourages behav...

Cumberland County, New Jersey, and Crime

rather rural or suburban, the state has its share of problems. In fact, in addition to boasting beautiful suburban areas, and vaca...

A History of American Organized Crime

by Torrio. Through Torrios negotiations agreements were reached with the other gangs participating in Chicagos lucrative bootleggi...

Is the Need for Affiliation the Reason for Gang Creation?

they seek to deal with problems through violent means. And, considering that their home life is probably less than adequate with a...

California's Anti Gang Injunctions and Whether or Not They Are Practical

happens is that while gang injunctions prohibit gang-banging activities like vandalism, graffiti, and possessing weapons, the inj...

America's Latino Gang History

gang members. Over their history they have also been known to unite as in the 1980s when the Gangster Disciples and Latin Disciple...

Shanghai and Los Angeles Gangs

This 6 page paper discusses the development of the gang culture in Shanghai and Los Angeles, the causes of such behavior and the c...

Issues Pertaining to Crisis Communication

own wives for 9/11 widows. While perhaps these individuals were not burned out, one can see how someone in a helping profession ca...

Immigration and the Gangs of New York

The film opens with a dramatization of a gang battle that occurred in 1846 between Irish gang, principally the "Dead Rabbits" led ...

Drugs, Gangs, and Philadelphia's 'Badlands'

city" (Duke, 2000, 3). Most people became familiar with such locations during the 1960s and 1970s when the so-called "white flight...

Crime, Gangs, and Law Enforcement Strategies That are Ethnic and Race Specific

contend, is fueled by nothing but a lot of "hot air and rhetoric" (Berry, 1995, p. PG). The cycle is not difficult to comprehend:...

Juvenile Gangs and Sociocultural Forces

understand that theirs is a life of devastating poverty and extreme hardship, a life which bears little resemblance to that most o...

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...

Environmental Conditions of Glen Canyon Dam

closely at how and why the dam was built. Glen Canyon Dam One of the most powerful elements, or perspectives, in...

Social Organization Theory and Crime Causation

of the reasons behind crime. One such theory is social organization theory, which investigates the contribution of community socia...

Reality and Hispanic Cinema

brutalized in this event and the historical record shows that such a background would be historically accurate. Alienated against...

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...

Scorsese/Gangs of New York

the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...

Research on Gangs as it Relates to Critical Theory

religious direction in the lives of modern adolescents are factors that impact whether children turn to delinquency and crime. ...

Gangs and Fatherless Boys

helped by community members, family members, churches and many other aspects of community. But as society became more complex ther...