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    Juvenile Delinquency

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    Cited: Herbert Packer. “Which Model? Crime Control or Due Process.” 22 April 2011 Petersen‚ Rebecca D‚ “Understanding Contemporary Gangs In America.” New Jersey: Prentice Hall‚ 2004. Senna‚ Joseph J. Siegel‚ Larry J. Welsh‚ Brandon C. “Juvenile Delinquency” Thomson Wadsworth. 2003. WWW.SECULARHUMANISM.ORG WWW.JDBAR.COM/ARTICLES/CHILD-NEGLECT

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    School Uniforms Essay

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    all necessary. Students should be given the liberty to wear their choice of clothing to school because it interferes with their self-expression‚ uniforms are harmful to the transition to adulthood‚ and they only act as a ’band-aid’ towards bullying‚ gang activities‚ and cliques. School uniforms in public schools conflict with a student’s freedom of speech as well as their freedom of self-expression. People have been known to express their identities as well as how they are feeling through

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    Sons of Anarchy- Ethics/Race

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    ! Gang Representation in Sons of Anarchy Sons of Anarchy is an American television drama created by Kurt Sutter that airs on FX network. The drama series‚ also known by its acronym SOA or SAMCRO‚ is centered around the culture of motorcycle gangs and includes multiple gangs with differentiated racial makeups. The series is set in current-day California in a fictional town called Charming. The town is modeled as a small-town community which has limited government interference normally and lenient

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    Analysis of a scene in La Haine (homework) The scene I am going to analyse is the ending scene of the film La Haine (Mathieu Kassowitz‚ 1995). In the beginning of the scene‚ the camera gives us a longshot of the protagonists pulling the gang members body into the room‚ this shows the audience a view of what is going on in the distance. The scene then progresses further‚ and we see that the gangmember the protagonists have pulled into the room has been thrown onto the bed‚ Vinz‚ one of the protagonists

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    Always Running

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    done to get rid of gangs. The elements that create gangs are social‚ political‚ psychological‚ economic‚ and spiritual and without confronting this issiues cannot be fixed. The governors‚ school officials‚ politicians and many others who are in charge of protecting the community and make it a better place are not approaching the problem in the best way. “Thousands are hacking at the branches of the problem; few are working at the roots.”( Thoreau); Many who wish to eliminate gang violence are not

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    Paul Street Boys

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    In the book Paul Street Boys one of the main characters‚ Nemecsek‚ who is a member of the Paul Street gang‚ could definitely be considered a Christ-figure‚ despite his status as an underdog. A Christ figure is a literary device‚ a particular way of shaping an important character in a novel. He (or she) may not match in every instance to the biblical image of Jesus‚ but bears enough of the characteristics to suggest the relationship. They go through suffering and in the end sacrifice themselves for

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    Nicky Cruz

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    ex-gangster get gangs of our streets? Ex-gangster‚ Nicky Cruz had a hard time as a teenagers as his parents would abuse him and called him the ‘Son Of Satan’ when in reality he practised what the ‘Son Of God’ asked us on Earth to do. From the age of 15‚ he moved out of his family home in Puerto Rico and went to live with his married brother in New York‚ unfortunately after two weeks of living with his brother and his family he decided to leave along with live on the streets‚ the home of gangs. After

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    The Book "8 Ball Chicks"

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    Gini Sikes. It is a thrilling yet shocking book about girls in gangs. The book explains in horrific detail the roles and existences of the girls in these gangs. Sikes traveled to several different cities to experience the life of girl gangsters. She traveled to Los Angeles‚ San Antonio‚ and Milwaukee. Through these travels‚ she became immersed in the lifestyles of each gang and had first hand accounts on what it was like to be in a gang. Sikes met many girls whom she could not believe what had persuaded

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    between the two gangs‚ as differences are common. Unlike the Socs‚ “Greasers are almost like hoods; we steal things and drive old souped-up cars... and have a gang fight once in a while.” Ponyboy Curtis lives with his two older brothers‚ Sodapop and Darry. One night‚ Ponyboy and Johnny (a sixteen year old‚ who is a friend to all the Greasers) meet two girls from the Socs and get on well‚ sharing the same thoughts about sunsets and how they wished things were different between the gangs. The two boys

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    (“Prohibition”). Many gangs were formed and created due to absence of alcohol. “In chicago‚ gang battles resulted in deaths of 8oo gangsters between 1920 to 1933.” A lot people were killed from illegally trying to transport and make alcohol. When a gang transported the illegal alcohol to another gang others would try to take it for there own use. Since prohibition took away jobs people started making their own. One group will produce and sell‚ then another would transport it. Each gang would have relations

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