The main attempt in understanding women gangs or women in gangs is understanding what influenced the girls into these groups, at what majority level were the girls at when joining the gang, the lifestyle lead in a gang, how life differed after a gang, and the future of gangs in the United States. ... For this very reason juvenile crime rates have gone up. ... Females make up only six percent of gangs in America, but are increasing rapidly (Moore). ... Instead, girls are left behind to pick up the pieces, to scrape together money for all the funerals, and to raise their children with...

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• Grade Level: High School

Finally, it is suggested that the official actions of the juvenile justice system should be understood as the major force in girls" oppression as they have been historically served to reinforce the obedience of all young women to demands of patriarchal authority no matter how abusive and arbitrary. ... Child saving was also a celebration of women's domesticity, though ironically women were influential in the movement. ... These institutions isolated women from all contact with males concerned with their "precocious sexuality." ... I figure if a girl is about to get pregnant, we"ll ...

• Word Count: 1850
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

We must try and understand how the gang members think, how they react to certain situations, and what makes them do what they do. ... Initiations such as: beat in, "26 penny pick up," "the wall," and also" the line."... The initiations can be as simple as learning a set of rules then reciting it or as difficult as getting beaten badly while trying to pick up 26 pennies scattered out on the ground. The 26 penny pick up is when 26 pennies are tossed on the ground, then he or she will be beaten until all the pennies are picked up. There is also a 6 penny pick up for the young thugs...

• Word Count: 2668
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• Grade Level: High School

The reference period for the survey is from January 1st in the calendar year preceding the BCS, up to the date of the interview. ... The survey sample for the BCS is collected from the postcode address file (PAF), which is in turn drawn up from the national census. ... She pointed out that the BCS only allows up to six separate crimes to be recorded on each survey. ... The focus of these surveys was to uncover areas of criminal behaviour missed by the BCS, and to show how crime is unequally dispersed among the population. ... All parties pick and choose aspects of the survey, which suit the ho...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

From the late 1980s, research on gender, crime and social issues, has hugely focused on the study of masculinity, and how there has become a correlation between masculinity and violence. ... I will relate to why violence appears to be associated with masculinity, by analysing these concepts, therefore creating a sustained argument in how these concepts pursue the idea that violence is associated with masculinity. ... The inequality in gender patterns between males and females is not a new concept; men have always been associated extensively with violence compared to women. ... Evolutionary e...

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They are relentless and do not care about any kind of victims even if it's kids and women (Erkan, 2012). ... All a person would be thinking about is how their life is going to be. ... All the hope in the person's mind will be gone and will just give up to potentially getting back on their feet and picking themselves up. ... Youths join gangs because being part of a gang opens up opportunities that cannot be reached outside the gang culture. ... At the rate of how gangs are spreading throughout the world, would there be any hope that this issue would be resolve in the future based on ...

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It is this ability to choose, and the mutual respect of other people's right to choose based in their own beliefs which makes picking and finding one single, moral, and ethical law to govern any situation a difficult task. ... She claims that becoming pregnant is like waking up one morning and realizing you have been hooked up to a dying violinist who needs to make use of your organs to survive for a certain amount of time. ... Thompson seems to feel that women become pregnant without ever making any conscious decision of their own. ... How can we hold that man responsible for taking t...

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Currently 3,387 men and women reside on death row. ... The state and local government tend to pick up the bill. ... (Radelet and Borg) Retribution is a non-empirical justification and there are no mathematical formulas available or on the horizons that can tell us precisely how much of a given punishment a murderer, or any other offender, "deserves". ...

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Behavior is termed criminal by a process of social perception and how it is interpreted of the agents of the law. ... The ruling classes setting up laws to enforce their political control on the lower classes. ... Justice's of the peace were all male until 1919 when women were allowed to hold this office. ... Personal crime covers rape, robbery, aggravated and simple assault and purse-snatching/pocket picking. ... This data is collected twice a year from a national sample of 49,000 households making up 100,000 persons in the survey. ...

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Behavior is termed criminal by a process of social perception and how it is interpreted of the agents of the law. ... The ruling classes setting up laws to enforce their political control on the lower classes. ... Justice's of the peace were all male until 1919 when women were allowed to hold this office. ... Personal crime covers rape, robbery, aggravated and simple assault and purse-snatching/pocket picking. ... This data is collected twice a year from a national sample of 49,000 households making up 100,000 persons in the survey. ...

• Word Count: 1552
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• Has Bibliography