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

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...

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

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

serious when school students try to express their childish reactions in a more violent way (2002). Columbine was noted, but is onl...

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

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

disintegration exists and how it exists so that effort can be focused to prevent the conflict arising and ensure that there is int...

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

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:...

color as well as students with emotional and behavioral disorders" (Austin, 2003; p. 17)? Can educators achieve better results by...

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

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

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...

111). Social conditions become problematic through systems of communication (Charon). This interactionist perspective is based ...

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...

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

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

The most interesting question is really why people get tattoos or piercings in the first place. Despite claims to the contrary, bo...

soul it would seem and clearly accustomed to oppression and anger. He represented the people, the Irish people and others who had ...

opportunities for city residents (Soglin, 2006). This author reports that studies consistently show an inverse relationship betwee...

name from its founders Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof; though Baaders girlfriend Gudrun Ensslin is known to have been the "real...

that adolescence is a time of life that skews peoples thinking. People the age of the Latin Kings have a terrifying illusion of im...

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

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