Would you let your eleven year old child walk home from a friends house by themselves? ... If Carlie's parents had been more responsible, they might still have their little girl today. That is exactly what she was, little, and too little to be walking home from a friends house. ... Since Carlie's parents were not being responsible, Smith was able to take advantage of their poor little girl. ...

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Selena Gomez does not know about the plan, because her friends knew that she would not be able to do it. ... Alien agrees to her leaving but says that her friends cannot go with her. ... In the film, her friends tell her about the restaurant robbery and she is appalled by what her friends are telling her and how they are describing what had happened. ... In the beginning of the film, Selena Gomez' church friends label her grade school friends as evil, satanic, and claim that they are no good. ... This film is a little exaggerated but it does have great examples of juvenile delinquency....

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Alex, at the start of the movie, is a happy 15-year-old hoodlum who delights in rape, violence, thievery, and leading Dim, Pete, and Georgie, his little gang of teenage criminals. ... At the bar, a woman breaks out into song, a little bit of opera. ... It seems to Dim and the others that autocratic little Alex is stepping beyond his rights as a leader, and they plan to betray him. ... Perhaps if Alex had avoided the company of his "friends" he would not have been in the situations he was in. ... By staying with his friends and committing the illegal activities, he does not show the patience or...

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A youth whose friends with gang- members and experiences peer- pressure to join. ... But this is not enough for her to forbid her son from being with his friends. ... If he didn't hang out with them, he wouldn't have any friends." ... She can rightly be classified as viewing her son as "Mama's little darling." ... Even after he was expelled for fighting she did not feel that he was completely wrong she felt that he simply "...has taken his feelings for his barrio a little far..."...

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They join gangs because they feel a need for power, their friends are in a gang, they feel neglected, and others protect them in the gang. ... Many people who join a gang live in single-parent households, have little contact with their fathers or mothers, and seek a sense of belonging. ... Friends, classmates, and family members who are already in a gang, may pressure someone to join a gang. ... Although they prove effect in short term, they have little long term success....

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Many things influence children from their peers, gangs and even bully's, areas that parents have little or no control of. ... This also raises the question of whether parents should choose who their children's friends are. ... If they"re not allowed to be friends with someone, a rebellious teenager would just want to become better friends. I think parents should be creative in choosing friends for their children by doing it discreetly. ...

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At the age of 17 Christopher was accused and charged along with friends of gang-raping a girl on the beach. He pled guilty to carnal knowledge and received one-year probation with provision for mandatory therapy and electroshock treatments, but it seemed to have little if any effect on his behavior. ...

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Lana Connor found out at the age of fifteen that one should pick friends wisely or life will quickly head down the wrong direction. ... In her mind making friends was priority and she was willing to reach out to any one who gave her attention. ... With the rumble in Cara's stomach and the little money in her billfold she opened the door and took the money. ...

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He was put on death row after he was unlucky enough to have been in the store when his friends got into the dispute with Mr. ... Grope, and Jefferson's two friends were shot and killed, leaving Jefferson as the only one left alive. ... While this is a little altruistic, it does have several inherent truths. ...

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Control theories make a little more sense to me. Reckless" containment theory says there are predispositions that make people commit crimes. He uses the terms pushes and pulls. Pushes can come from troubled psyches, or stressful circumstances outside the individual, whereas pulls can be from family,...

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Other characters include Sodapop and Darry, Ponyboy's brothers, Johnny, Dallas, and Two-Bit, that were also gang members and Ponyboy's friends. ... All the lower valley was covered with mist, and sometimes little pieces of it broke off and floated away in small clouds. ... It also shows how if a member of a family has an injury it's tough for the family and friends. ... It really does show how these things can affect a family and friends. ...

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Recruiters use lies to convince the youth it really isn't a gang but a club of close friends. ... If you try to leave then the people you called your family and friends will either beat you until your almost dead, or they will just kill you. ... Although this accomplishes little, it is a big factor in gang enrollment. ...

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According to Agnew, research consistently saw that a friends" delinquency is a strong predictor of the individual's delinquency, thus supporting the idea of differential association through the cause that the child's delinquent behavior came from the delinquent friend. ... (Criminology, 4 Nov. 1999) The theory of differential association in a simple form would be that delinquent friends influence delinquency only indirectly through their influence on the individual's definitions of delinquency. ... These were inclusive for differential association of individual definitions, ot...

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Gun Control Dawn Flanigan P.O.D 2/21/01 1.What role have guns played in our nation? (Revolution, civil war, modern) Guns have played a huge role in American society all throughout history. From the beginning of time man has often tried to protect himself in one way or another. Ove...

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He doesn't care about family, about friends, and his future, merely obtaining that money and doing everything in his power to do so. ... Every action matters, every choice is significant, every little movement revolves around Dicks desire for wealth, his greed. ...

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Handguns and long guns are not little killing machines. ... On balance, they show that there is nothing to be gained from reducing the general level of gun ownership. (3) A thorough review of 18 studies of the effects of gun availability among potential victims and criminals found that the overall effect on criminal violence was zero. (4) In one study, researchers found no significant differences in total robbery rates between cities where guns were widely available and cities where they were not; in cities with fewer firearms, armed robbers simply used other weapons. (5) The best available ev...

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There is little room for compromise and much room for abuse. ... The uninvolved parent is so preoccupied with their own life, that there is little or no time for the child. ... A juvenile wants to belong and make friends at school. ...

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Games, Books and Movies: The Violence Accelerator or Misreported Non-issue? When a violent action is reported publicly, there is a move to blame someone or something for what has happened. As people look for someone to hold responsible for the action, blame can be attached to a variety of object...

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This is what makes this subject so controversial, would you feel the same way if someone killed your little sister or brother? ... We are blind to see most of the time, that we have a lot of corruption in the police force, and we do very little background checks on the jurors. ... Jail for some individuals is not good because in jail they will eat 3 times a day, have a toilet and have a bed to sleep in with new covers everyday, watch television and make friends with other crazy inmates that fits there taste. ...

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This is what makes this subject so controversial, would you feel the same way if someone killed your little sister or brother? ... We are blind to see most of the time, that we have a lot of corruption in the police force, and we do very little background checks on the jurors. ... Jail for some individuals is not good because in jail they will eat 3 times a day, have a toilet and have a bed to sleep in with new covers everyday, watch television and make friends with other crazy inmates that fits there taste. ...

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Family and friends of the psychopaths are seen as pawns which are useful to leading the psychopath towards his or her goals. ... Since sociopaths have a high impulse they act out with little considerations to the risks and consequences of their actions. ...

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If capital punishment is even a little deterrent that is a good enough reason to implement it. ... In a Washington Post article, on the morning of July 5, 1978 Michael Baker, left home with John Mayecki, also 16, one of his closest friends, drove to a fast food restaurant for lunch. ...

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This may lead them to be out on the street with friends that may peer pressure them to do things like drugs, mugging, or play games that focus on violence (Ex. knock-out game). ... When someone is doing a little better than the other person, people try to bring them back down mentally by making fun of them or bullying them. ... Youths usually get introduced to drugs by friends that peer pressure them to do it. ... Little do they know that a single usage of some drugs will have you hooked on that drug for life. ...

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Then finally the average taxpayer could enjoy a little more of their hard earned money and save us the trouble of giving it away. ... No one wants a murderer to be given a chance to escape or make parole just to do it again or even to come after the family or friends of the victim. ...

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As criminals cause a lot of pain to the family and friends of the victims, death penalty will be a kind of revenge and relief at the same time knowing that this cruel person is condemned to death and is punished with the worst of the punishments. ... Furthermore, rapping elderly people or little children is considered to be one of the worst crimes since children and old people are totally undefended. ...

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