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Gang Membership and Criminology Theory

This research paper/essay pertains to Strain theory and Routine Activity theory as explanation for gang involvement among young pe...

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...

Criminology Theory Glossary

go unexplained based on ordinary criminological theory. Trait theory provides new explanations for odd behavior. At the same time,...

Marxist Criminology - An Overview

first understand where it differs from traditional schools of criminology, as the Marxist view is typically regarded as being a fo...

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...

Criminology Theories, Biosocial and Classical

biological approaches to criminology, which take "into account the interplay of biological and socio-environmental factors," which...

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...

Crime, Criminology Theory, and Delinquency

of behavior upon individual members of the group" (Bursik & Grasmick, 1995, p. 110). Thomas and Znaniecki also included the term ...

The Feminist Movement and Criminology

Liberal feminism is characterized by operating with existing social structures to accomplish its goal or illuminating womens probl...

NAFTA and ASEAN

to trade with companies in non member states. It is also believed by some commentators that free trade agreements that result in a...

Peter Maas' Story of Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano, Underboss

points and major events that are outlined by Maas as a central part of their own paper. In 1992, Gravano was the highest ranking ...

Literature Review for Use in a Project on Leadership in Kuwait

or values. It is by understanding leadership and its influences that the way leadership may be encouraged and developed in the con...

Communities and Their Members

of community is under discussion. When asked if members of the community "look like you," its likely that the discussion centers ...

VENEZUELAN BUSINESS AND MERCOSUR

across "borderless" countries also makes sense, in theory. With tariffs and paperwork blocking trade many times, the dissolution o...

Drug Prevention/Delinquency

This research paper addresses two topics, delinquency and gang membership, and drug prevention programs, such as DARE, focusing on...

Juveniles and the Impact of Gang Culture

In ten pages this paper examines how adolescents are affected by gang membership and culture. Six sources are listed in the bibli...

Major Causes of Juvenile Delinquency Overview

our complex world. Lets look at a few of them. Gang membership: Teams at several universities collaborated in studies of the Caus...

Turkey and Potential Membership into the European Union

In five pages this paper examines the obstacles of Cyprus, humanitarian and political issues that stand in the way of Turkey's pot...

Juvenile Gang Problems

a traditional East Coast ghetto. The gang writing on cement walls, criminal samizdat that cops read for news of a planned attack ...

Examining Latino Girl Gangs

In five pages the girl gangs that have emerged in the Latino community are examined in a correlation between membership and juveni...

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 ...

A Gang Subculture Sociological Analysis

In this paper consisting of nine pages the text Monster The Autobiography of An L.A. Gang Member by Sanyika Shakur is examined as ...

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...

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 ...

Criminal Justice II

ended at the boundaries of the Catholic church which was barely recognized by Anglicans. Not until the mid-18th century was...

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...

Theories in Criminology

the author notes that labelists do not generally support such simplistic notions (Goode, 1994). In other words, one label does not...

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...

Choice Theory from a Marxist Perspective

really not obvious in violent scenarios as it appears that everyone involved loses. The more obvious reasons that crime is committ...