robbery‚ assault etc. Property crimes include burglary‚ theft‚ motor vehicle theft‚ and arson. Corruption is a significant problem. Contents [hide] 1 Crime over time 2 Crime by locale 3 Crimes against women 3.1 Prostitution 3.2 Rape 3.3 Gang Rape 3.4 Sexual Harassment 3.5 Dowry 3.6 Child Marriage 3.7 Female infanticides and sex selective abortions 3.8 Domestic violence 4 Illegal drug trade 5 Arms trafficking 6 Poaching and wildlife trafficking 7 Cyber crime 8 Corruption and police
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Final Project Andrew Rodriguez CJ150 Kaplan College Mr. Templeton August 30.2012 Juvenile gangs have become a serious and growing problem in many areas throughout the U.S. It is unlikely that gang control strategies can be successful as long as legitimate economic alternatives are lacking. I will be exploring the possible proactive solutions to this social problem. Juvenile gangs on the street and in prison “Violent crimes committed by juveniles are not diminishing‚ as other crimes
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Gang Leader For A Day Social imagination‚ “individual problems are to social problems‚ what is happening outside of one’s personal control. This relationship between individual experiences and public issues is the sociological imagination” (Our Social World Pg9). The book that we read “Gang Leader for a Day” by Sudhir Vankatesh clearly illustrates the sociological imagination. In the early part of the book we see Vankatesh trying to give surveys to a gang to try to understand how they feel about
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the fighting street crime‚ specifically a street gang that has been operating in Redondo Beach‚ California. While trying to fight this negative force in the community‚ the criminal justice had to come up with innovative ideas‚ they realize that focusing on a specific trouble area is one that is not new to most law enforcement officers. It is believed that the “shifting the focus of policing from responding to incidents to proactive crime prevention has important strategic implications‚ many of which
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The Bloods and the Crips The United States has had problems with gangs dated back as early as the 1800s. In today’s society when people hear about gangs the first two gangs that they think of are the Bloods and the Crips. Both of these gangs originated about forty years ago but are still going strong today. Although‚ at first these gangs were formed as a sort of territorial war the activities of the gang members has grown increasingly more dangerous. The Bloods and the Crips are mortal enemies
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Norte‚’ the United States. The film revolves around two main characters‚ MS 13 gang member‚ Willy (aka El Casper)‚ and Sayra‚ a Honduran girl who is traveling to New Jersey with her brother and uncle. The story of Willy is his struggle to deal with gang-life while he tries to maintain a relationship outside the gang‚ while in the process of initiating a young boy‚ El Smiley‚ into the gang. Willy’s girlfriend attends a gang meeting unbeknown to him‚ and ends up being killed by the gang’s leader Lil’
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one’s identity. Often feelings of being an outsider act as a catalyst for gang related violence and crime‚ especially in the Indo-Canadian community. However‚ there is not enough documented evidence explaining why violence is so prominent amongst Indo-Canadian youth. Although there is not enough evidence accumulated by researchers on this topic‚ based on research that I have gathered about other minorities involved in gang related violence‚ I will show that there is a tendency for Indo-Canadians
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Sidewalks and Gangs Even though being too friendly isn’t always good‚ because fear is within the community with the gangs and turf wars because of people being territorial‚ and walking on side walks. Unfamiliar people in new places can cause neighbors to become suspicious and worried that someone new is coming into their community. In The Uses of Sidewalks by Jane Jacobs‚ argues “a gang appropriates as its territory certain streets or housing projects or parkers‚ often a combination of the three
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area in which a person lives and raises their families‚ may have a significant amount to do with the circumstances in which their kids get involved with gang affiliation‚ drugs and committing violent acts. To begin‚ there are numerous places where which gangs or gang affiliation is present‚ yet there are certain areas in which gangs are more apparent. For example‚ according to an article from SF gate‚ “A 15-year-old boy has been charged with murder in the slaying of another teenager near
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see what caused the people to get into the gangs and how the gangs acted to the people. The socialization theory is shown in the sense that the gang makes people believe that they are a part of a family when they join. The last concept I used was deviance because of all the violence that happened in the movie. DESCRIPTION OF THE MOVIE In Cary Fukunaga’s groundbreaking movie Sin Nombre we see a young man by the name of Willy in the Mara Salvatrucha gang. In the opening minutes of the film we see Willy
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