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    Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs

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    Identify a range of legal and non-legal responses to OMCGs Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (OMCGs) is a contemporary issue that engulfs Australian society. What makes prosecution of such gangs so complex is the strong foothold that gangs have in organised crime and the façade that is worn in order to evade the eyes of the law. Various responses have been implemented in order to cease all violence and more importantly disenfranchise organised crime and prosecute those within the illegal syndicates. Legal

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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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    Delhi Gang Rape

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    ---------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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    Gang Violence Analysis

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    Unlike other societal trauma‚ such as domestic violence or human trafficking‚ with gang violence it is a little bit more difficult to distinguish a singular perpetrator. Typically‚ there is an established hierarchy between victim and perpetrator. Perpetrators assert a sense of superiority over their victims. In regards to gang violence‚ those engaging in violent acts are almost identical in socioeconomic and cultural factors to their victims. The true difference between victim and perpetrator is

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    Over the course of history female gangs have been largely overlooked from the focus of gang studies and research‚ the main focus has been how males are influenced and influence the world through gang membership. Anne Campbell argued this in her piece The Girls in the Gang‚ stating that it started with Frederic Thrasher’s work that merely focused on delinquent boys‚ even noting that the research conducted on female gangs has been largely done by male researchers (Venkatesh‚ 1998). However‚ the reality

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    Causes Of Gang Violence

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    our neighborhoods and country. Most of our deaths are caused by gun violence on our youths and they are mostly homicides. Many of our youths are brought up in abusive homes this is one of the reasons why they turn to drugs‚ alcohol and also turn to gangs. There are also parents who are unable to provide their children with the necessary tools and give them the education they need due to poverty. Several of these youths are not strong enough to deal with peer pressures or turn to the right persons for

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    Youth & Gang Violence

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    Youth & Gang Violence Jacqueline Smith Jackson State University Youth & Gang Violence Definition of Problem As an African American‚I often wondered why people were in gangs and what made them want to involve themselves in violent activity. I grew up in a predomintely all black neighborhood and many of the kids I grew up with were in some type of gang affiliation Desciples‚ Vice Lord and Latin Kings. Gangs and violence is still happening every day which hit the headline news with young

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    Gangs In Los Angeles

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    (Shakur‚ Sanyika). For the past four decades gangs have populated the streets of Los Angeles; growing from 18 to 60 from 1972 to 1978‚ and from 155 to 270 gangs from 1982 to 1996. The bloods and crips in Los Angeles are predominately African Americans; with the exceptions of about four gangs which reside in Long Beach‚ Carson‚ Compton‚ and Inglewood and they consist of Samoan and members from Tongan descent. Gangs aren’t just an urban city problem but gangs have reached out to suburban and rural areas

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    Female Juvenile Gangs

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    phenomenon of female juvenile gangs in Hong Kong and evaluate its explanation’. In Hong Kong‚ female gangsters occupy a very small proportion of gang population‚ only 6% in 2001. However‚ the number of girl gangsters has an increasing trend that rises to 15% in 2005. Girls are also involved in gang activities more actively than before. There are three main parts in this paper. The first part focuses on the definitions of ‘functionalist point of view’ and ‘female juvenile gangs’. Features of girl gangsters

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    Silence of the Lambs In the book Silence of the Lambs (Harris‚ 1988) the whole plot is based around three main characters. Clarice Starling‚ a precociously self-disciplined FBI trainee who is put into the position of trying to unravel the mind of an evil genius‚ Hannibal the cannibal Lecter‚ in order to find the answers needed to capture the serial killer‚ Jame Gumb‚ also known as Buffalo Bill. Hannibal the Cannibal Lecter‚ a former psychiatrist‚ is in a mental institute for his ferocious attacks

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