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city" (Duke, 2000, 3). Most people became familiar with such locations during the 1960s and 1970s when the so-called "white flight...
serious when school students try to express their childish reactions in a more violent way (2002). Columbine was noted, but is onl...
gang situation for most of the nation has escalated and California reflects those trends. As a result, specific laws pertaining on...
they seek to deal with problems through violent means. And, considering that their home life is probably less than adequate with a...
happens is that while gang injunctions prohibit gang-banging activities like vandalism, graffiti, and possessing weapons, the inj...
This paper examines how Malcolm Klein evaluates gang culture's causes, problems, and what solutions he offers in 7 pages. One sou...
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...
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...
the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...
religious direction in the lives of modern adolescents are factors that impact whether children turn to delinquency and crime. ...
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...
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...
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:...
arrest histories. Background In an effort to prove that the literature is biased when reporting...
(Ebert, 1988). As Ebert says in his review, "`The Accused demonstrates that rape victims often are suspects in their own cases. .....
topic of controversy ever since the group came on the scene in the early 1950s. While members of the gang claim they are simply mo...
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...
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...
between 100,000 and 249,999 population (St. Gerard, 2004). Gang activity was also reported in more than 2,300 cities where the pop...
In two pages the characters Seldom Seen and Hayduke are examined in terms of their environmental perspectives. There are no other...