---------On 16 December 2012 a female physiotherapy intern[2] was beaten and gang raped in Delhi. She died from her injuries thirteen days later while undergoing emergency treatment in Singapore for brain and gastrointestinal damage. After watching a film in South Delhi in the early evening‚ she and a male companion had boarded a bus‚ which was being driven as an unauthorized "joyride"‚ thinking it was a public bus.[3] The only other passengers on the bus were five men who were friends of the driver
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Martin 1 Tiffany Martin 19 November‚ 2014 Professor Kelli Gilbert Prejudice & Discrimination Domestic Violence Domestic Violence Against Women is a global issue reaching across national boundaries as well as socioeconomic‚ cultural‚ racial and class distinctions. It is a problem without frontiers. Not only is the problem widely dispersed geographically‚ but its incidence is also extensive‚ making it a typical and accepted behavior. Only recently
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The economic prosperity of the 1920’s brought upon negative social and cultural exchange to the U.S. society. Violence and racism by the KKK returns during this time and the alcohol ban gave many people a reason to break the law. The reorganization of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was a serious problem during the 1920’s. At one point in time‚ the Klan tried to intimidate the colored people of the area from casting their votes. They paraded throughout the day‚ and the police refused to respond to any calls
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On August 26‚ 1920‚ the right to vote was finally granted to women in the US by the United States Congress‚ marking the end of over half a century’s worth of campaigns and rallies and protests over the woes of the women‚ and the beginning of a new era. And yet‚ Waldo will still not be found. From the omnipresent and ever widening gender pay gap to the disproportionately huge number of women who experience gender violence (not to mention the alarming number of unreported cases of the same) to needs
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Freakonomics a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything was written by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner that study everyday life and they reach conclusions with conventional wisdom. They researched about crack gangs‚ the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan‚ the truth about real estate agents‚ and answering questions like why drug dealers live with their moms‚ and which is more dangerous a gun or a swimming pool? There were several themes in this book such as knowing what to measure and
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presented the historical facts about the gangs. It was shameful that most of LAPD police judge black people from their color. It is unacceptable logically. Bad and good people are founded in every race. It seems to me that the police was the reason for establishing these gangs. When people are raised by the violence from the police or the army everywhere not only in the US‚ that will lead many impact to their lives. They will turn to violence as an impact of the violence that they had suffered. It was a
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kinds of threats to inmate and officer safety daily. The correctional system in our country contains many gangs within the walls and connected to our streets. These groups‚ known as Security Threat Groups‚ are usually operated by race‚ and are active in our Federal Bureau of Prisons and in at least 40 state correctional systems. Inmates are pretty much forced to join their racial group or gang to ensure their personal safety while in prison. In the 1980’s and 1990’s‚ inmates were more racially twisted
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Gang Resistance Education and Training Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T) is a national program that educates elementary and middle school children how to avoid becoming a gang member. The program is instructed by police officers and is part classroom instruction and other learning activities. “The goal of the GREAT program is to teach youth how to set goals for themselves‚ how to resist peer pressure‚ how to resolve conflicts‚ and how gangs can affect the quality of their lives
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Did you know in the 1920’s two hundred and twenty seven gangsters were killed in the space of four years in Chicago(Chamernik‚ Mike). The period of Prohibition was very important part of America’s history . During Prohibition there was the mafia and their notorious characters such as Al Capone and the young Federal Bureau of Investigation. In the 1920’s during the period of prohibition a new kind of Gangsters came about which specialized in illegally transportation and selling of alcohol. Prohibition
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To gain control of gang activities in large cities has become a recurring issue for law enforcement nationwide‚ and internationally. More than seventy-five percent of police agencies declared gang activity as the top factor contributing to violent crime in their communities (youth.GOV‚ n.d). Memphis‚ Tennessee serves as the Southern headquarters for gangs in the United States. According to the Shelby County Sheriff’s Department‚ there are approximately 182 gangs with 84‚000 gang members in the county
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