Gangs in Australia

Not many people live a double life, but if so, how hard is it to lead vastly different lifestyles? In the book, The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, by Jeff Hobbs, nothing came easy for the main character, Robert Deshawn Peace. Rob came from a crime ridden neighborhood yet was able to achieve major accomplishments. He was perceived to have inhabited two vastly polarising and fierce insular worlds: the streets he’d come from and the honor roll student he characterized as. Just like his…

“Uggh Dr. Ninjhog has robbed another bank, I’ve got to go Tanner man.” Dr.Ninjhog was San Francisco’s greatest supervillain of the 21st century, he robs one bank a day without being caught, Nobody except himself knows how he is capable of this monstrosity . Pizza man is San Francisco’s greatest superhero, he fights the ninja hedgehog in the streets of San Francisco. “Pizza man, Dr Ninjhog has robbed yet another bank,” exclaims Tanner man, just then the hologram table switches to Dr. Ninjhog…

The Struggles of Inner-Cities and Its Relationship with Crime In the video “Inner-City Poverty”, Ross Eisenbrey and Michael Tanner have a round table discussion about the role of government in combating inner-city poverty in communities. Although several points were made during the discussion, it can mainly be summed up by two main points. The first point speaks on poverty in the inner-cities caused by a history of segregation. In the discussion, Ross Eisenbrey explains that in the 1920’s,…

reply to this question and after the reading for this week, I do believe that the structure within the gang plays important role in delinquency involvement and violent behavior of its members. There are several explanations for this. Researchers affirms that there are “the influence of group processes on delinquency ' ( Spindler and Bouchard_2011) which is important while understanding the gang involvement of its members. And that the “variations in organization (...) should be associated…

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…

dependence of a drug or other chemical leading to effects that are detrimental to the individual’s physical and mental health”. My overall understanding as to why young people would join a gang is that chemical dependency can cause…

decisions isn’t very strong. By joining a gang, they are able to suffice their need for adrenaline and are also able to ‘get out’, as the spend most of their time out of their respective homes. Youth are also looking for a sense of belonging in their life, as they feel the need to fit into a certain label and/or be known for something, which gives them as status to uphold. Being a part of a gang gives youth the opportunity to feel wanted within the gang itself, and also feel as though they are…

triumphs experienced by two socially different rival gangs, the Greasers and the Socs. The novel’s title advocates the main storyline, the Greasers, a gang of social outcasts and misfits. A theme of “The Outsiders” is people - despite their social and financial differences - striving for the same things, enjoying the same things, sharing many similarities and not having to be enemies. Hinton expresses the connection of characters from the rival gangs through the use of literary devices as well…

year at Circe’s Island. He also underestimates the Cyclops by greeting the Cyclops in a proper manner when he arrives back to his cave. Because of this, the Cyclops was able to trap them and it was their first barrier that he had cause for his whole gang. His companions turned against him, yet he stands unchanged. On the good side, he did save his companions by blinding the Cyclops’s eye however the reason his companions were trapped in the first place was because of his pride that he should…

Gangster archetypes: the gangster, the best friend, the canarian, the moll, the mother are some of the key factors that a gangster movie is made out of. This is, according to Hughes, something that any gangster film has to have in order to be a gangster film (215). All these archetypes are carefully defined and are not prone to significant changes which could be regarded as being in sync with the changes in the state of the society. Still, some of the archetypes did get some alterations, and…