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    most known for having tons of youth crimes and gang activity. His family was very poor and his father was always out doing things other than working. Most of the times that he had money, he would just spend it on a bad habit he had called gambling instead of using the money to provide for the family. At the age of twelve, Gotti was already working at an underground club which had him around tons of inappropriate things such as sex, drugs, and violence. The club was ran by the Gambino…

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    The Bonanno Crime Family

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    members were loyal, the high ranking officials were being betrayed. The new mob Massino was a strong, well oriented leader that placed the Bonanno crime family on top in New York City. The idea Don Massino was to place goals and willingness to use violence in order to achieve financial organization within the family. Although Massino turned on the family…

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    Introduction In the book “The Other Wes Moore” uses a more successful internal factor because in this story both Wes Moore’s have a perspective mindset for how they think and the surrounding and how they act affect the way they grew up. Both Wes Moore’s were younger when they were in there teen years they both acted in a bad way that will affect the future but one mindset change their mindset but one stayed the same. Even Though both Wes grew up in the same environment the type of Mindset or…

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    their intention to legitimise the struggles of the Bra Boys surf community is achieved in their confronting documentary, Bra Boys: blood is thicker than water. Filmed over 3 years and released in 2007, the documentary follows Maroubra’s ‘bra boys’ surf gang, primarily focused on the Abberton brothers; Jai, Koby and Sunny. The audience is positioned into accepting the bra boys as a fringe-group that have been victims of social injustice, who have turned to the ocean and their brotherhood as…

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    The Social disorganization theory was developed by two sociologists, Clifford Shaw and Henry Mckay who were connected to the Chicago School of criminology. Due to the social conflicts afflicting Chicago, Shaw and Mckay examined predominant rates of crime and delinquency. Creators theorized that disorganized communities are affected by poverty in which crime rates and neighborhood ecological characteristics are directly related. Sociologists established social structure theories in their efforts…

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    them the opportunity to change their fate. She gives them the hope that never received from another teacher. The Freedom Writers is a display of the cruelty of the Holocaust, the topic the students most love to learn about, and shows the extent of violence the students faced. The movie is an inspiration to anyone all around the world, that it only takes one person to make…

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    Donald Trump’s convention speech is full of racial discrimination of immigrants in the United States. He has dishonored the names of all U.S. immigrants and criticizes them. Some things he has said about immigrants are not even true yet he still blames them for everything that’s going on in the United States. The thing Trump believes and proposes is outlandish and would have negative consequences. Trump says that immigrants are criminals, rapists, and drug dealers. According to Donald Trump’s…

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    5.1 INTRODUCTION This chapter present the case study of the “Durban’s disappearing of street kids and the World Cup. The study is conducted to address some of the issues and key elements that were fundamental in understanding the motive behind the victimisation of street children. Although this research set out to answer the question: What are the physical, psychological and consequences of living on the streets? It addressed issues specifically related to the causes and the impact on of living…

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    Eliminating business opportunities for the organized firms was a good way to restrain the organized crimes. One approach was the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, an multilateral treaty against transnational organized crime, which offered a global legal framework to assist identify, prevent and demolish the organized criminal groups. 170 parties has involved in the ratification of this treaty. It helped a lot in improving the ability of States to trace and deter…

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    Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Juvenile gang members are committing these terrifying acts as early as eight years of age (Bartollas & Miller, 2014). Between 1988 and the early 1990s, a drastic increase in youth gang membership occurred and is still on the rise today in the United States (Bartollas & Miller, 2014). There are several speculations as to what drives juveniles to join gangs and commit such crimes. Block and Niederhoffer theorized that gang affiliation is a Normal Part of…

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