In the book, The Dream Shattered by Patrick Du Phuoc Long, "I have only a sister and a brother. ... According to Choo, Kyung-Seok (2007) author of Gangs and Immigrant Youths reports "shows that about 33% of the adolescents (383 out of 774) of the adolescents served by the center are in some way involved in gang-related activities.... In the book, Always Running by Luis Rodriguez mentions his frustration and what he was going through when it was about his struggles of teacher and schools. ... Also in the book, The Dream Shattered by Patrick Du Phuoc Long he pointed out that, "A c...

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"The delinquent is a rogue male" stated by Wooden and Blazak in their book on delinquency. ... One national study of youth aged 15-21, for example, noted that only 5% reported involvement in a serious assault, and only 6% reported having participated in a gang fight. ... However, self-reported studies of male and female delinquency do not reflect the dramatic differences in misbehavior found in official statistics. ... This data finds that girls are arrested for status offenses at a higher rate than boys, when contrasted to their self-reported delinquency rates. ... Constantino's nati...

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In this report, I will be using Walklate's book to discuss the role of women in regards to crime and the criminal justice system. ... It depends on whether or not it will be reported, for example if a car was stolen it would be reported due to insurance claims. ... Lastly, there are crimes that have been committed and reported but the offenders have not been caught, so when trying to get information on the sex of offenders this is obviously a barricade in progression and results. ... This is in connection to the sex role theory, which will be later discussed in more detail, further on int...

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In his book, Marshall MacLuhan stated that " Everybody experiences far more than he understands. ... Critical attention to how crime is reported in the news is necessary given the way in which the media represent these events heavily influences our understanding of crime in society. ... Many of the other features that are are news worthy are sex combined with violence, together with focus on children; either as victims or offenders or both tend to make a feature more newsworthy and together with the news value 'novelty' will almost guarantee a reported visible crime will make the new...

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"The congressionally mandated report defines sexual harassment as an unwelcome sexual advance, request for sexual favors or other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature that can affect a career, job performance or create an abuse workplace " (Simeone). ... In the book that I had read the author said, "Paraphilia's are primarily (but not exclusively) male disorders, many of which begin in childhood or adolescence and persist into adulthood. ... Just over half of these trainees (54 percent) described the content as comprehensive, 30 percent reported it was partial (overlooking some ...

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The report from UNAIDS also shows that 63% percent of sex workers are involved out of economic pressure and 92% of them are below tertiary education level. ... From the report from UNAIDS, the sex workers are abused by various certain extents. ... According to Liqun Cao, in his book Exploring terra incognita: Family Values and prostitution acceptance in China, prostitution, one of the oldest professions, was never condemned by statue like now in China. ...

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Theory links up the research and the problem, which is examined in the research. Theory allows the researchers a streamline of action. It is a set of logical, coherent, interrelated concepts, which attempt to explain some observable phenomena or group of facts. Review of the literature provides awar...

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Travis Hirschi's 1969 book, Causes of Delinquincy, he focuses on the family, the school, and peers as the most influencial factors on a youth. ... In the 1997 annual report provided by the Census Bureau it states that "family resources and the amount of parental attention given to children is strongly influenced by the number of parents in a household." ...

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Recent reports of juvenile crime dropping are of little comfort in light of the coming demographic surge of juveniles in their crime-prone years from dysfunctional families. ... These shocking statistics were complied from The Source book of Criminal Justice Statistics, these numbers show the problem we have in this country and the downward trend that we are facing. ...

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Recent reports of juvenile crime dropping are of little comfort in light of the coming demographic surge of juveniles in their crime-prone years from dysfunctional families. ... These shocking statistics were complied from The Source book of Criminal Justice Statistics, these numbers show the problem we have in this country and the downward trend that we are facing. ...

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Initiatives such as the Operation Crossroads mentioned in the book Fixing Broken Windows (1996), chapter 4 "Taking Back The Subway: A Burgeoning Demand For Improving The Quality of Life Public and Private Initiatives ", by George L. ... Coles stated in chapter four that, "from December 1989 to December 1992, reported crime in the area dropped 42 percent " (Kelling & Coles, 1996 P.114). ...

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I only know that smoking marijuana to them meant to escape the realities that life has handed them, to relax themselves, which the book also states, and just to have fun. ... the author reports,I don't know anybody who didn't start smoking pot because of peer pressure. ...

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In his book L"Umo Delinquente (1876) he argues that criminals were throwbacks to an earlier and more primitive form of human being and claimed to have identified a number of genetically determined characteristics which were often found in criminals. ... Sullivan also reported that about every one in every twenty seven black men, compared to one in every two hundred and five white men, died violently, also one in one hundred and seventeen black women met an untimely end as compared to white women which only one in four hundred and ninety six were killed due to violent crimes. ...

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He arrived at these tenants through his different experiences with the theory, and the different versions of his book "Principles of Criminology". ... Before authoring his first version of his book Principles of Criminology in 1924 Sutherland had a numerous amount of influences for creating his text (Sutherland, 1924). One of the very first influences came when the Federal Bureau of Investigations began a yearly report on all the crime or reported crime in the nation (Sutherland, 1924). ...

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A 1997 report from CNN attributes the migration of gangs to family relocation. ... In the book, Gangs: An International Approach, Wade lists others such as status, power, structure, shelter, food, clothing, nurturing, discipline, unconditional love, activities, economic support and respect. ... In his book, Dangerous Society, Taylor points out several gang-prevention strategies on which we might focus. ...

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