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    We were at Stringybark Creek looking for the Kelly gang. They were wanted for robbery and much more which was illegal. We were all wearing dark black boots and baggy clothes. The creek smelt like a junk yard! “Kennedy‚ Scanlon!” McIntyre yelled out that we were surrounded and should give up our weapons. What nonsense he was talking about? My buddy and I Scanlon just wanted to find the Kelly gang badly so they won’t hurt anyone else. We had already lost enough lives‚ so we just continued riding

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    most well known theories on the family and have contributed to our understanding of the family in various ways. It is useful to consider how the family supports wider society. Functionalism considers this by deciding what functions the family must perform and therefore which type would suit society best. Functionalism believes that the nuclear family ‘fits’ and supports society because it is geographically mobile and allows people to move around the country to find work with little upheaval. This

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    Gang Rape in India

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    A 29 years old woman had been raped by a bus driver‚ a bus conductor and 5 other men in the north India State of Punjab‚ in an incident that recalls the recent attack in Delhi of a student on a moving vehicle and thrown bleeding onto the street that has caused widespread outrage. The woman boarded a bus on fridaybound for gurdaspur‚ to visit her in-laws‚the police chief ‚ Raj Jit Singh‚ said in a telephone interview. Whenshe got off the bus‚ the driver offered her a ride

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    Social Theories: How It Relates to Gangs & Gang Violence By Stuart Brown Criminology is a complex subject chock-full of theories that attempt to explain crime and criminal behavior. Each base theory has several branches of theory which expand upon and compliment their predecessors. Even some of the sub-theories have branches of theories. This paper is going to discuss two social theories; social structure and social process. It is also going to cover some of the branches

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    theory of eliminative materialism which he discusses in more detail in his article “Functionalism and Eliminative Materialism.” Churchland provides a great depth of the issues and differing positions associated with the mind-body problem‚ and I will work to defend Churchland’s proposed theory of eliminative materialism from the functionalist theory of mind in three parts. First‚ I will analyze in depth both functionalism and eliminative materialism with supporting examples and draw the difference in

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    which he focused on a housing project with Robert Taylor Homes. He wrote a book published in 2008 and it was titled “ Gang Leader For A Day “. This book studied the life of the characteristics of Chicago‚ particularly the Robert Taylor Homes and the gangs.  Venkatesh wanted to wrote this book to tell people about the time he was living in. He wanted to explain the inside world of the gang ‚ drug dealing‚ and inside the world of a poor community to help people understand

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    TEACHING ACTION PLAN – PREVENTION AND ENTRY IN THE YOUTH JUSTICE SYSTEM | Teaching plan | Outcome | Learning objectives | Identify some of the risk factors associated with Gang membership.Identify some of the risk factors for juvenile offenders. Identify ways of tackling gang culture and juvenile crime. | Some of the learners already had some prior knowledge of the subject.All learners gained a basic understanding of the subject and made progress in identifying society’s ills.Most made a verbal

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    Functionalism and Marxism are both known to be structural perspectives‚ due to the fact that they concentrate on a group of people rather than on the individual himself. Although very similar the two are different in very distinct ways‚ in fact Functionalism falls under the sub-heading of consensus structuralism‚ while Marxism falls under the sub-heading of conflict structuralism. As the sub-headings suggest they may be considered as opposites in various ways. The similarities and differences of

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    I just watched the most interesting documentary video that 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

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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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