preparing meals while dad goes to work to pay the bills, and all in all not a worry in the world. As this idea is taught, the ignorance to reality grows deeper and deeper throughout society. With poverty flooding the streets, crime rate sky rocketing, and gangs taking over our neighborhoods, this is the true reality…
instead creates his own way of getting where he wants to be, by being in a gang, killing, violence, and making himself into a badass prison superstar. His goal in life is the same as the goal of Kermit Alexander and other people in the society, he believed in money, and material things. And example of that is his affiliation with the gangs, the drug dealing, and violent fight for the territory and control with different gangs. Kermit with the same goal of getting money he chose the path of the…
Urban crime along with young gangs have long been an issue of concern to the public. Gangs are often associated with guns, violence, crime and drug abuse. Many factors are attributed to this continuous social problem and there are some strategies for ending gang violence such as suppression and prevention. Moreover, knowledge as a vital element of one’s success, is often required through education. Concerns about the importance of education are not new. Education not only increases one’s…
People at any age , sex or economic status can become addicted to a drug . However, certain factors can affect the likelihood and speed of developing an addiction such as personal , family , psychology, community and environment ( To be edited and paraphrase ) . Link drug and crime : In the absence of knowledge about such essential conditions for the relationship between drugs and crime. Bean criticises cosial scientists for using terminology that implies causal connections e.g talk of links…
Abstract My research paper is about money laundering in Brazil using the Operação Lava Jato as an example, which is one of the biggest scandals of money laundering in the country. This operation initially started as money laundering investigation, soon enough it unfolds allegations of corruption at the state-controlled oil company Petróleo Brasileiro. My paper will be fully focus on the explanation of why these powerful executives and politicians engage in such crime by using Sutherland’s…
The crime in Guatemala today is more of a war between gangs and the people of Guatemala. In the USA the crime that is dominating the country are race crimes. Race crimes have been part of USA’s history for years. Today in USA you see more crime between minorities and the Caucasian community. Most of the crime…
youth today engage in drug use due to peer pressure, curiosity or a way to deal with problems in their lives. As stated in the justice.org achieves: the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the U.S are gangs; street gangs, outlawed motorcycle gangs and prison gangs. The increasing numbers of gangs activity posses a dramatic increase in the availability of drugs to the public. The governments solutions to theses problems, listed on drug policy.org, are the fifty-one billion dollars spent on…
Gangs in Louisville, KY and how to Stop Them. This is the issue we are having on our fair city. There have been some incidents in downtown Louisville involving flash mobs of teens aged from 13 to 19 years. Assaulting persons and robbing them. Some stores are also being robbed and vandalized. These incidents have also resulted in some bad publicity that could result in loss of revenue to local business people and hurt the city’s reputation as a safe and attractive tourist destination. Local…
“rock” like substance that is smoked in a pipe. Both crack and powder cocaine peaked their popularity in the 1980’s through the early 1990’s. During the 80’s crake cocaine was the number one drug sold by gang members, thus causing gang warfare causing millions of deaths due to the lashing out of gangs. Each year there are 400,000 infants born affected or addicted to cocaine usage during the pregnancy. Currently the average use of cocaine is on the decrease; although this is a good statistic…
(MS-13) is a gang organization that commits its members to identify with the gangs collective mentality and dogma. To achieve gang conformity, MS-13 uses many rites of passage to prove that a prospective member is able to serve in the gang. These degradation ceremonies strip an individual’s self-identity so that it may be replaced as a soldier of MS-13. Prospective members are reviewed and upon acceptance they are “jumped in”. “Jumping in” a member is a ceremonial beating that new gang…