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    the neighborhoods are claimed by gangs through ownership of land i.e. owning their house or a business‚ graffiti/tagging‚ and population of gang members loitering in specific regions. Much like any other natural creature of nature‚ gang members are territorial‚ if an individual poses a threat or opposes the group‚ they will take defense to hold their ground. People can distinguish whether they live near a gang by the graffiti‚ which is in a sense a signature for gangs like an artist signs their work

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    Gang Leader for a Day

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    In the book‚ Gang Leader for a Day‚ a rogue sociologist passionately dives into the lives of one of Chicago’s toughest housing projects in an attempt to develop an insight as to how the urban impoverished lived. Throughout the text it becomes clear that a conflict paradigm is being reflected. A conflict society is based on social inequality‚ in which some individuals benefit and thrive more than others‚ which tends to lead to conflict and thus change. This is evident both in the housing projects

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    behavior considered gang behavior? When does hanging out with your friends and bending the rules turn into

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    gang leader for a day

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    Chris “Gang Leader for a Day” This book is about a Sociologist named Sudhir Venkatesh who is a graduate student at the University of Chicago and was interested in the poor black neighborhoods that surrounded the university and he wanted to study them. He wanted to explore how the black folks lived in the projects‚ he wanted to know how life was like the challenges it took for those folks to live in there. The sacrifices it takes to move forward and how poverty affects the way of living

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    Prison System Janette Brown Garcia Westwood College Abstract A supermax prison is an institution that has the following characteristics: greater levels of restriction‚ limited visitation and programs‚ lack of congregate activity‚ and the increased degree of isolation from other inmates (Mears and Watson‚ 2006). Craig Haney (2003) describes supermax prisons as being marked by their totality of isolation‚ intended duration of confinement‚ reason for being imposed and technological sophistication

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    Gang Membership in the Us

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    Gang Membership in the US   Gang Membership in the US Anyone who has studied gangs over a period of time will admit that the more one studies them‚ the more complex they are. At best‚ we can come to understand a bit about certain features of gangs at given points of time. Gangs are dynamic‚ flexible and ever-changing. This paper will analyze gang membership‚ who becomes a gang member and what are some of the reasons behind gang memberships in the US. It is undecided exactly

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    Prison Overcrowding

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    of prison overcrowding in the UK. The prison population of the UK has steadily been increasing every year since 1993 when the number was 41‚000 to a current figure of 82‚000 (office of national statistics). This essay will discuss this doubling of prison population in the last 17 years. It will examine the suggested reasons for this rise‚ a statistical breakdown of the structure of the inmate population‚ the financial and social effects also the implications on the effectiveness of prison as

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    Prison Environment

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    Prison Environment Jennifer O’Neal CJS 230 Jean O’Gallagher July 21‚ 2011 Prison is a cramped‚ confined‚ and sometimes dangerous environment. There are prison rules (prison code) and for the majority of the prisons there are inmate rules (inmate code). When prison rules are broken‚ inmates are charged accordingly with reprimands. When inmate code is broken inmates are subject to attack by other inmates‚ which will lead to injury or possibly death. In prison‚ there is no privacy. Inmates are

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    Essay On Gang Delinquency

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    The temptation and influence of gang activity is as prominent in females as it is in males. Before exploring the topic of gang delinquency one must first understand what a gang is. Most often‚ definitions of gang membership or affiliation mirror the organization rather than empirical realities of gang membership through self-selection (Huff‚ 1990). At the state level a gang consists of three or more people that share a common and identifying sign‚ symbol‚ or name. Whether individually or collectively

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    Latino Gang Policy

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    Abstract Latino Gangs and Policy Introduction Gangs have become an epic problem in the United States. It is very essential important in attempting to solve this problem by fully understanding how we can prevent individuals from joining a gang. A gang is group of three of more people that share a common bond and that are loyal to one another‚ whether it’s for economic reason or violence. The National Gang Center estimates that 32.4% of all cities in the United States experienced gang problems in 2008

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