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Gang Violence and Laws Prohibiting Loitering

In nine pages this paper presents the pros and cons of loitering laws as a way of protecting urban streets from gang violence. Th...

Illinois Supreme Court Case Chicago v. Morales

In one page this brief assesses the validity of the Gang Congregation Ordinance of Chicago that prohibits public loitering of stre...

Taiwan and the US/Comparing Domestic Violence

domestic violence, offering comparison to the legal standard on this issue in the US. In 1993, a horrific incident, the stabbing ...

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...

Gwinnett County, Georgia's Gangs and Gang Violence

The Gwinnett police and the Office of the District Attorney are apparently working together, and working hard, to ensure that gang...

Violence in Gangs

Juvenile delinquency and gang violence are subjects discussed in the scope of this research report. Legal reassures, prevention an...

Law Enforcement and Gang Violence

national media fascination with the Crips and the Bloods ensured that gang formation would increase and soon be represented throug...

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...

Social Violence

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

Law Enforcement Officials and the Problem of Biker Gangs

In twenty two pages this research paper analyzes the criminal behavior of so called 'biker gangs' in terms of history and certain ...

Explaining Gang Violence From The Theoretical Perspective of Anomie And Labeling

their vastly segregated social and economic status, leaving the door wide open for resentment and intolerance, which effectively t...

Domestic Abuse: Federal and Illinois Law

This paper describes the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which is a federal law, and also the Illinois Domestic Violence Act (I...

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...

Business under Islamic Law

set of laws which is universally accepted, the laws are subject to interpretation and application which can vary dependant upon th...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Gang Violence and the Anomie Theory of Robert K. Merton

In fifteen pages this paper applies the anomie theory of Robert K. Merton to the issue of gang violence with 5 crucial adaptations...

California's Inmate Population and Gang Legislation

gang situation for most of the nation has escalated and California reflects those trends. As a result, specific laws pertaining on...

Street Gangs and Racism

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

Violence at Schools/Research Issues

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

Community Profile: Juvenile Threat

gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...

Reducing Gang Violence In New York City

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

Crime Rates HIgher Among Ethnic Groups

arrest histories. Background In an effort to prove that the literature is biased when reporting...

Gangs and Social Jusitce

In a paper of fifteen pages, the author reflects on the issue of youth violence and the impacts on gang participation. This paper...

The Effect of TV Violence on Young People

62 percent of the time" (Tepperman, 1997). Perhaps the worst message of all is that "violence is pleasurable. Clint Eastwood, in D...

Prison Violence

home (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 2001). Those who live in poverty have always been the victims of the most violenc...

Medical Treatment, Parents, Religion and the Law

even her mother and father over whether she should get blood transfusions to treat her leukemia. Doctors say that without the trea...