Gangs in the United States

I found the reading Race and Juvenile Offenders to be interesting particularly when it mentioned the connection between media and youth crimes. “The media likely [plays] a large role in perpetrating negative stereotypes of Black juvenile offenders by selectively emphasizing the violent, predatory nature of Black juvenile offenders, but the innocent, misguided nature of White juvenile offenders,” (Stevenson 4). I found this quote thought worthy because it demonstrates the negative aspects of…

“The United States had exploded in new forms of violence-assassination, riots in protest against racial oppression and against war, violence related to drugs and just youthful exuberance, and even forms of cult violence”(Cowan). Much of American literature is reflected upon modern society consisting of crime, murders, gangs, and warfare—factors that appeal to violence. The feeling of suspense creates a pounding effect in the individual to think and act a certain way after reading a work. They…

powerful and the most dangerous cartel of the bunch in Mexico. Earning more than $3 billion per year and controlling a majority of the drug routes on the Mexican-United States border. It is believed the Sinaloa have a presence in all major cities in the United States as well. Operating mainly in Chicago because 70 percent of the United States population lives in areas that have freeways and railroads intersecting with Chicago. Chicago is also one of the biggest drug markets in the world. A small…

Most of the kids were either born in the United States or emigrated at a very tender age and so only heard of the terrors and trauma their parents and grandparents experienced. They did not really understand or connect with their parents both, emotionally, psychologically, and even in communication…

The United States has one of the highest rates of arrests and incarcerations in the world. In the United States, it is estimated that about one in three adult citizens can be found on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) databases. (Dolan, 13) The majority of these arrests are of people who have committed nonviolent offenses. Many of the people who are arrested are free to go without conviction. However, both people who are incarcerated and people who are arrested but not convicted share…

I never knew another place to be my home other than Mexico. I grew up in the same home with the same friends, and I wasn’t ready to leave it all behind. The rushed decision to become an immigrant of the United States was a baffling thought that would take weeks to wrap my head around, but I only had hours. My family wanted a better life for their children and they were to get it, or so they thought. Growing up in the streets of Iztalapa, Mexico was difficult for not only me but the rest of my…

groups in the area and together they formed the Medellin Cartel.” (Crime and investigation) In the mid 1970’s Pablo Escobar became the leader of the Medellin Cartel. Pablo Escobar controlled over eighty percent of cocaine being shipped to the United States. Pablo Escobar was the modern day robin hood for the locals of his city. Pablo Escobar was also a ruthless person when it came to getting what he wanted. The EPL is an acronym for Popular Liberation Army. In Spanish it stands for Ejercito…

they consider you as? I am a Mexican American my family is from Mexico, however i was born in the United States. This is why I am Mexican American but I consider myself more as a Latina. I love both countries equally but I identify myself more Mexican than American. Well i look more Mexican than American. People in society veiw me more as a Mexican girl that was just born in the United States.…

throughout the whole United States correctional system. The boom in prison population came from various movements going on in the United States in the middle to late 20th century, which led to police officers arresting criminals for even the pettiest of offenses. The overcrowding in prisons was derived from the very costly War on Drugs, the Get Tough on Crime movement, which encouraged the state of California’s three strikes law, and lastly the lack of funding for the United States Department of…

The movies “Mi Familia” and “ A Better Life” both use a image of the border as an obstacle. The border between the United States is not only used and an actual dividing line in the movies but a division between the families. The division between the families is felt between the members who were born in the United States and the members born in Mexico. In the movie “Mi Familia” the son, Jimmy, and his siblings do not remember the struggles that their family had crossing the border. The…