Illegal Drugs Essay

The President’s Commission on Organized Crime was established during Ronald Reagan’s presidency back in the 1980s (Woolley & Peters, n.d.). The purpose was to stop organized crime, and figure out who the organized crime groups were and how they operate (Woolley & Peters, n.d.). The Commission is responsible for defining the well-known organized crime groups, along with the newer groups, and how much money the groups are making in revenue (Woolley & Peters, n.d.). By having a sufficient grasp on…

epidemic that caused crime to get out of control (Pettit & Western 2004). The people demanded a get tough approach on drugs and crime. That’s when the government delivered by declaring a War on Drugs. However this War on Drugs…

Instead of looking at the war on drug as a social problem in America many politicians like the republicans saw it as a criminal issue. Albert Cohan created a theory called Stratus frustration he argues that working class youth believe in the success goals of mainstream culture. Due to constant failures in education, workplace and life they realize they have little opportunities to attain the goals of mainstream culture. This leads many youth to find another form or way to obtain the same…

cool and hip, but there are actually many pulling factors for youth to join delinquent gangs. Youth sign up to gangs in hopes of earning respect, money, and protection; however, what they truly gain from gangs are drive by shoot outs, trafficking drugs, and exposing themselves to petty and violent crimes. Thankfully homicide and violent rates have been falling, and the current rates are the lowest in the past 25 years according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports, however, gang-related homicides…

Gangs should be handled with extreme caution, because they are known for their violent tendencies. Being a member of a gang is not illegal, but I do believe they cannot be compare to juvenile delinquents or status offenders. I will discuss this matter in depth and support my argument with logical evidence. “A gang is an ongoing group of people that have a common name or common identifying sign or symbol, form an allegiance for a common purpose and engage in unlawful or criminal activity” (Hess,…

The first social effect is the isolation from people. No one wants to speak or to give a second chance for improvement to someone who did illegal actions such as murders or drug trafficking. Furthermore, the majority of people do not allow their children to befriend with an ex-gang member. For example, they believe that an ex-gang member will be negative repercussion for their vulnerable children. In addition…

This semester we have been talking about many issues in developing countries and ways to fix them. Poverty, Climate change, Deforestation, Child Mortality are just a few of these issues. We learned about Mexico’s huge deforestation problem and that is having an enormous effect on the people living in the area. As well as, how Microcredit is being used in developing countries in the Latin American, sub-Saharan Africa and Asian regions to give people a better chance to improve themselves…

2009 and released in 2010. He wrote the script with the help of Nicolas Peufaillit, Thomas Bidegain, and Abdel Raouf Dafri. The main character in the film is Malik (Tahar Rahim), who went to prison because of a single petty crime and later becomes a drug trafficker and an assassin. The film compliments what I have learned about 20th-century European history in class, and it reminds me of a news article Suspected Boss of Corsican Mob Reported Dead that I have read recently from usatoday.com. Some…

The United States has become infamous around the world for several reasons in the 21st century. Perhaps one of the reasons that is least talked about is the one that sits right beneath the nose of every citizen in the country. The reason being the overwhelming number of people currently incarcerated in the United States jail system. The United States and all of her citizens account for less than 5% of the world’s population. This being said it seems strange that the United States also accounts…

the color of shirt and pants they are wearing. Drug trafficking was spreading out of the streets of Los Angeles which was making gangs become richer, better organized and more strapped. Money was everything men lived for and they did anything to get it, but that does not mean they were smart with it. People who grow up in low income communities are more likely to get into the drug dealing business or do anything to get quick money, even if it was illegal.…