From 1990 to to the present there has been a sharp increase in juvenile crime across the United States. From 1996 to the present there has been a slight decline from the statistics in 1995(OJJDP). What was the cause for this uprise in juvenile delinquincy? I will discuss 2 different theories to why there was such an increase in juvenile crime rates. I will analyze the rise of the "Gangsta-Rap" culture in the early 1990 ’s and how it may have affected teenagers that are in lower- income families
Premium Crime Hip hop music Criminology
Homeless and Poverty within Our Society SSCI210 -1404A -07 Mr. Emmanuel Okafor January 9‚ 2014 Abstract Throughout this paper I will use sociological imagination to discuss the connection between individual experiences and the social impact of being a homeless person and the broader issue of poverty in society. Homeless and Poverty within Our Society The homeless live in tents‚ on benches‚ under bridges‚ alleys‚ box-cars‚ abandoned homes‚ and shelters to name just a few. I personally
Premium Homelessness Poverty Unemployment
primary and secondary data. However‚ for the primary data the questionnaire was used to solicit responses from the respondents. In conclusion economic recession‚ governmental policy‚ employment of expatriates and trade union wage demand increase the rate of unemployment. The study emphasis that planning for human resources use in Nigeria has been based on guesswork and needs reevaluation. Keywords: Unemployment‚ Human resource planning‚ Graduates‚ Economy. 142 British Journal of Arts and Social
Premium Unemployment
at the instant that the radius is 4 cm. The radius is decreasing at the rate of 0 .25 cm/min. What is the rate of change of the volume at this instant? FACT IDEA LEARNING ISSUE ACTION PLAN 1) Snowball is melting that at the instant. 2) The snowball radius is 4cm. 3) The radius is decreasing at the rate of 0 .25 cm/min. 1) Make equation using chain rule. Chain rule based on the information given. 1) What is the rate of change of the volume at this instant? 2) How to solve the problem?
Premium Volume Area
About 1 year ago I saw a story on the news that really caught my attention. It was the story of Becca Robinson‚ who is in 3rd Form at Verchilds High. Although she was described as “Fatty” who enjoyed spending time with her friends and family‚ since 1st Form Becca had been seeing a Psychiatrist and taking medications for attention and deficit disorder and depression and she also considered herself overweight. In 2012‚ shortly after Becca had fallen out with one of her friends for allegedly spreading
Premium Message American television actors Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
Smith‚ R.E. 2007: 624). Subconsciously our daily lives are regulated and influenced by social norms. We take these social norms for granted. (Passer/Smith‚ 2007:624) We see these customs as “normal” but as Michel Foucault illustrates in “Discipline and Punish‚ the Birth of the Prison”‚ these norms and patterns of behavior are a lot more complex than we may think. After reading “Discipline and Punish” I was able to identify in greater detail how our society is governed by social norms. This is evident
Premium Sociology Prison Michel Foucault
What Benefits are Likely to Result from an Increasing use of Computers? A computer is a device that accepts information in the form of digitalized data and manipulates it for some result based on a program or sequence of instructionson how the data is to be processed . Modern computers inherently follow the ideas of the stored program laid out by John Von Neumann in 1945 . Essentially ‚ the program is read by the computer one instruction at a time ‚ an operation is performed and the computer then
Free Computer
analysis to compare the baseline and intervention periods. Using this method‚ the research hypothesis was supported that operant conditioning did increase the levels of exercise significantly. Behavioural intervention: Increasing exercise The importance of exercise‚ especially in the widely sedentary lifestyle found today cannot be overstated. Physical inactivity is recognised as one of the most important population health risk factors. According to a government study by
Premium Obesity Operant conditioning Reinforcement
Aim: To determine the effect of altering concentration (mol dm-3) of hydrochloric acid (HCl) on the rate of reaction (mol dm-3 s-1) for the following chemical reaction: CaCO3(s) + HCl(aq) CaCl2(s) + H2O(l) + CO2(g) Research question: How does altering concentration (mol dm-3) of hydrochloric acid (HCl) affect the rate of reaction (g/s) for the following reaction: CaCO3(s) + HCl(aq) CaCl2(s) + H2O(l) + CO2(g) Background information: The reaction between calcium carbonate and hydrochloric acid
Premium Chemical reaction Carbon dioxide Reaction rate
Introduction The nation’s high unemployment rate is a result of a severe drop in demand for goods and services. It’s not a reflection of longer-term structural changes in the economy but rather cyclical changes in the economy. The demand for goods has been limited because of tight credit‚ decreases in government budgets‚ suppression of demand by consumers and foreign markets‚ and the inability by the fed lower interest rates. Even with the low level of interest rates the Fed is currently practicing a tight
Free Monetary policy Inflation Unemployment