Youth Gang Violence Brian Wheeler Cm220 Each year, gang-related conflict leads to numerous, preventable deaths of young people in some of the largest U.S. cities. However, there aren’t many surveillance systems that collect the kind of detailed data researchers need, in order to better understand what gang homicide prevention efforts would work best. In today’s society there has been a rise…
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LWD Research Paper With the topic of gang affiliation, most people are concerned about the risk factors involving gangs, ranging from when people first join a gang to when they are already in, even if they leave a gang. Most people are concerned about the risk factors becoming higher or lower. There are higher risk factors for teenagers to join a gang because of how the youth act in general, and how it can affect their lives now and in the future. The environment the youth is associated with can…
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in 2006–2007.” (Elisabetta Gentile and Scott Imberman 2012) This University of Houston study was conducted on a poverty stricken area, however, school uniforms would have the same positive results in any public school. Gentile and Imberman’s research concluded that school uniforms had an influence on raising test scores to and improved attendance. “It is intriguing to see whether the improvements found in attendance rates spill over into achievement... early adoption of uniforms has a major positive…
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Understanding the Geography of L.A. Gangs Gregory Deon Samuel II Cultural Geography 22/02/2018 As humans, all of us are defined by the area in which people grew up in. Identifying to the city, the street and even the house that individuals were raised because of the sentimental attachment of those specific areas and landmarks that define points of our life. In some places however, individuals identify radically to the area of which they reside in and act violently toward any…
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strategies. Additionally, identify which concepts of deterrence you believe offer the best method for controlling juvenile crime. Due Day 4 25 Individual Individual Theories Resource: pp. 47-80 of Juvenile Delinquency: The Core Write a 500- to 750-word paper explaining why some adolescents are motivated to commit crimes while others in similar circumstances are not. Support your…
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IBM’S political affiliation Bingxia Lan University of Southern Mississippi Department of Management 118 College Drive Hattiesburg, MS 39401 Tel: 6464633006 Email: bingxia.lan@eagles.usm.edu Lan2 1. Identify and define and explain the factor 1 What is a corporation’s political affiliation? Peng Luo defines a corporation’s political affiliation as the relationship between corporate executives and government officials. Johnson and Mitton’s research on corporation affiliation defined it as the relationship between a…
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Shane Carstenisns Paper 2: Stories People Tell 10/3/12 The movie Crash directed by Paul Haggis is one of my favorite films of all time. One of the issues in our society is that we to often categorize whites, blacks, Asians, Arabs, Latinos, etc, based upon their appearances. Racism is basically the assumption that a person’s behavior is influenced by their racial affiliation, regardless of whether the action is intentionally harmful. There are so many exceptions to racism using this assumption…
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Climate Change: Fact or Fiction? Martin Ray Central Carolina Technical College December 1 2013 Abstract Climate Change is a term often used in place of the term “Global Warming”. This is the first place the general population errs. Climate change refers to a change in the earth’s natural state; it includes global warming, but also includes, global cooling, the changes in precipitation, changes in the atmosphere, land masses and oceans and also changes in storm frequency and…
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camps were required to open their camps to an accredited representative sent from a neutral power. These representatives would inspect the camps and ensure that the camps were being run under the guidance of the Geneva Convention. In the following research, most of the accounts within the camp were taken by Swiss delegate Frederick Bieri.2 As mentioned before, Koje-Do was a United Nation’s prison camp located on an island off the southern coast of Korea that held communist and anti-communist soldiers…
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GP NOTES 2010 (ESSAY) Content Page 1. Media a. New vs. Traditional b. New: narcissistic? c. Government Censorship d. Profit-driven Media e. Advertising f. Private life of public figures g. Celebrity as a role model h. Blame media for our problems i. Power + Responsibility of Media j. Media ethics k. New Media and Democracy 2. Science/Tech a. Science and Ethics b. Government and scientist role in science c. Rely too much on technology? d. Nuclear technology…
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