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Alcatraz Hello there. Today I will be telling you about Alcatraz. The essay will explain the history of Alcatraz as conveyed in the article, Alcatraz. Prohibition caused a crime wave The Crime wave led to super gangsters Super Gangsters could not be in a regular prison. Alcatraz was built to hold the super gangsters. It happened to be a prison on an island it was named Alcatraz. Let's get started! I think that Alcatraz was a prison different from other prisons and that it was necessary to have…

As a young child growing up in the ghetto, selling drugs, stealing cars, running for your life from another gang trying to shoot you, and getting into all sorts of mischief. Would you think you would be arrested, end up in prison? Or even possibly die in the crossfire between two gangs? What would you think is going to happen to you in the future? In this incredible story Driven by Donald Driver it tells you a story of exactly this. Of his childhood growing up with little to nothing to live on…

Rationality in Drug Smuggling Across all crimes committed the main reason behind them is due to the fact that the offender wants to benefit from the crime he/she is about to commit. In rational choice theory it states just that. It states that the offenders are rational people who think about their crime before committing them, they think of the benefits it will bring such as money along with the costs, such as the possibility of getting arrested (Robb, 2017). Through this theory one can apply…

Hazing are the humiliating acts done to a person by a group of people as an initiation into the group. These acts are done mostly in sororities and fraternities across the world. Many hazing activities can include physical, psychological, and even emotional harm. One hazing incident occurred in 2005, where Matthew Carrington and his friend were ridiculed by their “frat mates” during the fraternity’s “Hell Week”. Both were forced to drink five gallons of water, and were then left in the basement…

A crime within the business or corporate world, and within the government by someone that has a high social status has always been known as the basic, white-collar crime (Humphrey & Schmalleger, 2012). Now white-collar crime has taken on a bit more of a defined definition due to a vast variety in the types of crimes and criminals involved. As Herbert Edelhertz put it, now white-collar crime does not necessary mean someone of high status or responsibility was the offender; in general, anyone that…

fact it happens all around the world, even in the most isolated areas. The individuals involved in the organized crime trade are highly motivated as they look for opportunity in the establishment of drugs, sex trade, weapons, and the distribution of gangs throughout cities. Most organized crime families are scattered over large areas from different cities, countries, to continents. They help one another in the distribution of illegal goods and activity. Most of these families are run under one…

From the 1980s, some sociologists have established a viewpoint known as left realism. Left realism begun in Britain where it was a response to the regulations of neo-conservatism and also the Thatcher government. The theory concentrates on the experiences of an offender and challenges to understand their perception on being a victim. Left realism is also known as a political catalyst against the bourgeois domination. Left realism primarily focuses on street crime as street crime is mostly the…

Gangs is a big key issue is in America in today Society. 24,500 gangs in the United States, 40% are juveniles under the age of 18 years old. 15% of juveniles in prison are female and 85% are males. Factors that lead involvement is truancy, no positive role model, no activities outside of school to keep out of trouble, friends who commit crimes, early crimes in petty theft and behavior issues when younger , and low incomed family’s. I choose to write my paper about “Helping at risk youth say no…

“With No Direction Home: Homeless Youth on the Road and in the Streets.” focuses on the life and culture of homeless youth in New York City, especially Tompkins Square Park. The book uses ethnographic research to study the elusive lifestyle of “street kids.” The book examines the lives of the kids before and after they move onto the streets.According to Kottak, “ Anthropology explores human diversity across time and space, seeking to understand as much as possible about the human condition.”…

These gangs are Hispanic based and have been linked to the Mexican Mafia with charges of racketeering, extorting money from drug sales, and conspiring to kill rivals. We know these organizations exist and operate because of the ever increasing crime rates and death tolls. These gangs operate widely in low income Latino neighborhoods, which raises the opinion that maybe if we supplied these neighborhood…