The study confirmed DYGs or youth gangs were more prevalence of delinquency, violence and drug abuse. ... The Edgework Perspective In the study by White R and Mason R (2006), which examined the relationship between youth gangs and violent behaviors, suggested that violence was not only a rational or strategic activity but it could be 'exciting and thrilling' as well. It opined that many young people engaged in fights or violence saw it as a legitimate and sensible mean in achieving certain objective.They acknowledged that some youth themselves even orchestrated situations that were...

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Social Control Theories take a sort of opposite approach from other theories in criminology. They start by asking why most people do not commit crimes rather then why they do commit them. They focus on restraining or controlling factors that are broken or missing inside the personalities of criminals. If these restraining factors involve society in some way, then the theory is said to be a social control theory. Most control theories are a blend of psychiatric, phsychological, and sociological ideas. ...

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In fact, scans reveal a patch at the front of the brain in people with records for criminal violence. ... Roth and many others to believe that some criminals are generally predisposed to violence. ... The final theory is a more extreme version of Eysenck's theory. ...

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Walklate believes that the validity is the more significant variable, because if you cannot verify the validity of a source, then the reliability is also in extreme doubt and is effectively irrelevant. ... In the United States, since the 1960s females have a much lower serious crime rate, at 15% in connection to homicide and violence against others, and less than 10% of severe crimes against property such as robbery. ...

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Violence is an inevitable part of the production, trafficking and distribution of narcotics. ... Another theory asserts that certain criminals are born into environments that tend to generate criminal behavior including extreme poverty or minority groups (Sacco and Kennedy, 2002). ...

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"The practice of transferring juveniles for trial and sentencing in adult criminal court has produced the unintended effect of increasing recidivism, particularly in violent offenders, and thereby of promoting life course criminality. " [Cen07] There are two sides to every coin. There are two sides to every story. The same can be said for the juvenile waiver process in the juvenile court system. A juvenile waiver is the procedure of transferring, or "waiving " a juvenile offender from juvenile jurisdiction up to the criminal adult jurisdiction within the court system. There are both benefits...

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