Gang violence is a problem in society today. ... Gang violence and gang activities impact all of those around the gang members. ... These data also do not explain why violent adolescent offenders commit acts of violence in some situations but not others. ... Crimes within the Belief Driven/Violent Assault Context share several attributes: They are usually characterized by extreme violence and tend to be based on a "hypermasculine" concept of what it means to be a "man on the streets." ...

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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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