a egomaniac gang leader who lives for violence. Throughout the novel Alex is seen committing several crimes‚ including robbing‚ raping and assaulting innocent people. Not only does he commit all of these crimes‚ but he also thoroughly enjoys doing them‚ accompanying them all with his own poetic monologue. After being arrested‚ he agrees to be brainwashed into hating violence‚ but in the end he still reverts back to his old gang ways. Alex is a psychotic poet who thrives on violence. When Alex is
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November of 2016. This makes Chicago’s most pressing issue violence. Violence has to be stopped in order for Chicago’s other problems to stop. As violence worsens‚ many other problems erupt such as poverty‚ lack of education‚ gang activity‚ child abuse‚ and police brutality. Gangs are one of the most common causes of violence in Chicago‚ and finding a way of reducing gang activity would be a great start to get rid of violence. With violence comes abandonment from homes‚ business places‚ and schools
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Grip of Gangs on Low Income Children Gangs are fully entrenched in many suburban communities across the nation. Gangs are a dangerous and a plague that has infected almost every city in the United States. Many notable gangs such as the Chicago-based Gangster Disciples‚ Black Peace Stones‚ and Latin Kings are the root of this epidemic. At this time gang activity was largely confined to urban areas‚ which raises a huge problem with the recruitment of the youth of this nation into gangs littered
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‘Crips’ are an L.A. based street gang that surfaced in 1969‚ this gang is said to be started by Stanley “Tookie” Williams and Raymond Washington‚ they chose the collective name of “Crip” because it appealed to the younger age of the members they were recruiting. This gang has been labeled as one of America’s most violent street gangs. Violence within this gang is used indiscriminately between rival gang members‚ to maintain order within the hierarchy of the gang‚ to initiate new members‚ and to
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When asked‚ many people would describe that criminals become criminals in a gangs by making choice. The general public believes that when it comes down to it‚ each criminal weighed the options and chose crime. It’s simple for them; it’s a yes or no answer. This is classical theory‚ “that people choose to act badly‚ to hurt others or themselves. Solving crime means first changing what is inside people’s heads.” This states that people have free will to do whatever it is they please; illegally and/or
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and intimidation‚ creating a dominant position for gang members. Renowned economist Peter Orszag stated that “tattoos reflects an anti-establishmentarianism trend. Getting a tattoo is a painful procedure that closes off potential job opportunities. It’s also closely linked with younger people who engage in riskier behaviors. Those who get tattoos make it apparent that they don’t buy into established norms set by an antiquated elite.” Within gangs‚ “a whopping 85% of prisoners under 35 have tattoos”
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highest use of drugs in baltimore is the increase of crime rates which involves gang violence and gun violence. For instance‚ Gangs violence in Baltimore is the killing between the BGF ( Black Guerrilla Family) and the Crips. However‚ guns violence over drugs involve : robbery‚ trespassing and murder. Secondly‚the whole issue with gun violence is that a weapon plays an important role with drugs and that is because when a gang member or individual person
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CJ 432-Research on A Gang Researcher| Dr. Joan W. Moore| | Joan W. Moore is a distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin‚ Milwaukee. She received both her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Her field of study has primarily been sociology with a focus in Social Problems within Latino communities. Dr. Moore has made a major contribution to the social sciences in the area of crime‚ drugs and gangs; she was also John Hagedorn’s mentor. No scholar is as widely cited
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Majority of the countries crime and violence can be connected to the social domain of psychology. The social and cultural aspects of the country have brought up most of the violence that El Salvador sees today. As stated above the gangs create majority of El Salvador’s violence. The members of the gangs in almost every case come from poor families and neighborhoods. The government through out the years has always taken advantage of the poor in El Salvador. El Salvador has resulted in a critical dissipation
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Dangerous Gang a. Symbolic Culture/ pg. 41: a group’s way of thinking (including its beliefs‚ values‚ and other assumptions about the world) and doing (its common patterns of behvior‚ including language and other forms of interaction); also called nonmaterial culture Graffiti plays a huge role in gang violence. Graffiti can mark one’s territory in order to tell the other gang’s that they do not belong there. On the other hand‚ it can also be used as a very deadly weapon. Other gangs can barge into
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