...of female gang members that were surveyed left the gang due to pregnancy. Yet, these facts are controversial, to another study that found no such factor of motherhood to play a role (O'Neal, Decker, Moule, Pyrooz, 2014). Being part of the criminal justice system, can be a turning factor for female gang members. Being incarcerated can result in a more realistic approach in the life of a gag member (O'Neal, Decker, Moule, Pyrooz,...
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...Motorcycle Gangs: From Outlaws to Any Joe Throughout history any person that rode a motorcycle was considered an outlaw or some sort of bad ass. The beginning days of motorcycle gangs weren’t the everyday Joe that had a nine to five job. These people were in their own class and were feared by anyone that crossed their path, but times have changed. Now anyone can ride a motorcycle without being labeled as a deviant outlaw. From the 1950 to today, the world has changed their perspect on a person that rides a motorcycle. Motorcycle gangs began after the veterans of World War Two returned home. Many of the return veterans started to ride motorcycles to feel the excitement that replaced the emotions from the war. On 4th of July 1946 the American Motorcycle Association held a motorcycle event in the small city of Hollister, California. At that time there were two motorcycle gangs that were know as the Pissed Off Bastards of Bloomington and the other gang was known as the Market Street Commandoes (CTGIA). The small city was filled with bikers and the police department consisted of only seven officers. The night got rowdy and the officers arrested one of the P.O.B.O.B. The gang ordered the police to release their fellow member and when they refused, the gang tore the city apart. This one event created history for motorcycle gangs because from that day on their will always be a July 4th run and the one percent image came into play. The Pissed Off Bastards of Bloomington...
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...The Boys & Girls Clubs of America Targeted Outreach Strategic Approaches primary approach to gang prevention is to identify and recruit at-risk youth and place them into ongoing Club programs and activities (Boys & Girls Clubs of America, 2008). The Boys & Girls Clubs of America offer health and life skills, sports fitness and recreation and tutoring (Boys & Girls Clubs of America, 2008). The programs and activities of the Club help to develop at-risk youth’s character, creativity, and health and mental skills. In addition, the Targeted Outreach program’s receives referrals from schools, courts, law enforcement, and community youth agencies (Boys & Girls Clubs of America, 2008). These referrals immediately identify at-risk youth for joining gangs. A comprehensive strategy to today’s gang problems incorporates both prevention programs and treatment strategies. Guiding principles are the objectives that the builder of a treatment strategy seeks to achieve (Hess & Drowns, 2004). The guiding principles of a treatment strategy for gang members will develop the framework for structuring the foundation of the core values and philosophies necessary for correcting gang member delinquency. Four guiding principles to be used during the development of an effective treatment strategy for gang members are: 1) encourage compliance with the conditions of probation and drug and alcohol programs; 2) identify and address risk factors for delinquent behaviors and actions in individual, group, and...
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...Boys and Girls Clubs also conduct numerous regional programs. In Ottawa, they conducted a project focused on high-risk children aged 6-12 living in a social housing neighbourhood in Ottawa that provided sports and recreational opportunities and was successful for many years. In Scarborough, a program known as YELL provides employment and leadership training over the course of 40 weeks to older youth and young adults who did not earn a high school diploma. Boys and Girls Clubs of Niagara operate an emergency shelter for homeless and at risk youth, and nearly 70% were able to transition to stable housing over the course of a 22 month period. Finally, the Peace Builders program was offered at 23 Boys and Girls Clubs in Alberta with the goal of teaching youth peaceful, non-violent conflict resolution. Nearly 90% of...
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...The Growth Of Gangs Gang: A formal or informal ongoing organization, association, or group that has as one of its primary activities the commission of criminal or delinquent acts, and that consists of three or more persons who have a common name or common identifying signs, colors, or symbols and have two or more members who, individually or collectively, engage in or have engaged in a pattern of criminal street gang activity. The key to the any gang definition is the phrase, "engage in criminal activity" or other similar wording. There are many legitimate fraternal groups, boys and girls clubs, sports teams and other organizations that have a common name and who may wear a particular uniform or articles of clothing. The first sight of gangs in Western Civilization was in 1873. Documentation of the existence of gangs in England during the 17th century and we speculate gangs may have been around earlier in the mother country. It does not appear though that gangs back then had any similar features of modern day street gangs. Organized gang crimes didn’t emerge until the 1600s. This is when gangs started wearing ribbons to distinguish themselves, and started terrorizing cities and people. Street gangs in the United States began with their presence on the East Coast around 1783. Nothing to serious until the 19th century did gangs really emerge. Four major regions of the United States began emerging quickly these were the Northeast, Midwest, West and South the reason...
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...Idea When Watching Kick Ass 2 Me and Alice noticed there were so many questions unanswered (many open Endings) What happened to Hit girl after Kick Ass 2 Uncle Ralphie was a loose end so he can be made into a valid badguy The hero roaster is rather small so integrating a few new characters many comic book issues to be adapted into film Put the issues into 40 minute long TV show miniseries if pilot takes off. one of the ideas was to get big name hollywood actor to create a small buzz about the show. Summary of Research: When coming up with the idea for the tv series we re-watched kick ass 2 and took notes. This helped us keep note on the characters roles within the film. We watched how their positions changed towards the end of the film so we would know which ones to proceed into our series. We had to take into consideration which characters stories were best to develop in our show, some characters were killed off and others were left without much explanation, these were the ones which we looked at in more detail. This is where we got the backing story of uncle ralphie from.. His character was left in jail without any family members apart from chris left. He knew that he was getting into a fight, but was trapped away so couldn't help him. After chris died in the ending of kick ass 2 we wondered how uncle ralphie would react. This is what made us focus on his character. We decided to make him the new villain in the series, this seemed like an obvious way to...
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...organizations or even gangs. These reasons why teenagers join gangs conclude that teenagers want to have a sense of belongingness that they cannot get from their homes or family. Teenagers may also join gangs because they want to have companionship and recognition. They probably don’t have someone to talk to when they are at home or in school that is why when they see an opportunity, they would probably join right away even a gang. And gangs do know how to persuade people especially teenagers to join them. They know how to speak encouraging words which even exhilarates a person’s interests in joining. Another reason why teenagers join gangs notices is that many teenagers nowadays wanted excitement with their lives. They think they can get it when they enter a gang. We cannot blame why teenagers want to join them because a gang member has a sense of love and acceptance. They feel loved by their “brothers” and they believe that their need for safety and protection is already answered by the group. This discusses why teenagers still has interests in joining even though they knew what kind of activities these groups are involved into. As said earlier, gang members often find a sense of belongingness or fulfillment with their personality that they cannot get in their homes. And as we know, during teenage years, a person would have difficulties dealing with its peers or friends because they don’t want to be coined as ‘nerd’ or ‘looser’ and a way to escape it is by joining a gang. This is another...
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...Exposition: Turtle has to move to Key West to live with her Aunt and cousins because her mom’s boss hates kids. Turtle doesn’t want to live in a dump like Key West. She wants to live with her mother’s house in New Jersey. Rising Action: Turtle wants to be in her cousin club called the “Diaper Gang”. When they won’t let her in, she tries to find a lupole. Turtle also meets her Grandma, Nana Philly. She didn’t even know that she had a grandmother. Turtle wanted to meet her but Nana Philly didn’t seem very open to meeting new people. Because of this rejection, it hurt Turtle’s feelings. Climax: Turtle finds a Treasure Map! To get her cousins on her side, Turtle asks them to help her find the hidden Treasure. When they find the treasure, a huge...
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...care of the family from the home. This is the culture expectation but if we look at the demographic trend of males and females who are educated more females finish school then men’s. Since only 83.3 percent of males finish school compared to 95.6 percent of females one third of the dropout have started working side by side with their father. This kind of problem does not often seen as an issue but boys are learning from their uneducated fathers that abusing women’s are norm. Boys are thought to be superior to their woman’s by their uneducated father and that’s when the abuse enters into the females lives. A Malaysian teenager girl was gang raped by 38 men in an uncontrolled hut used as a drug hangout. The girl was there to meet a friend but her friend turn out to be a companion with the gang. Two of the rappers were father and a son. The young girl was lured into the drug house. Then she was raped for several hours. Young boys are...
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...significance. Those that have tried to get out, have either been hunted and killed, or are now fugitives, living in fear of being found by their fellow gang members. Over the years, gangsterism evolved, changing with the times, with new gangs springing up, changing or disintegrating. Their modus operandi also evolved with time. Most of the old terminology retained its nineteenth century significance, although much of it became distorted or started to mean something different altogether. Gangs also became more dangerous and violent. Whole communities or sections of towns or cities lived in fear of gangsters. Disruptions and intimidation became more prevalent. Gangs gained more and more power in communities, and they began spreading. The forced removals of Coloureds from District Six in 1966, helped disperse gangsterism throughout the Cape Flats. In essence, there are two types of gangs – street gangs and organised gangs. Street gangs are usually smaller, of lesser significance and less problematic. These are usually youngsters, who congregate on street corners, smoke dagga, drink and intimidate passers-by. They resort to robbing and stealing to support their drug and alcohol habits. Larger gangs normally keep these youngsters in check, offering them “jobs” – like selling drugs in their neighbourhoods. It is these larger gangs, on the other...
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...Hi Traelon, I enjoyed reading your post. I really liked how you separated your post into two parts: and pointed out the commonalities and differences in female and male roles in gang membership. I agree that female is more likely than male deciding on joining the gang in a search of protection from their existent life. They also require more protection from their immediate environments like family and parents, the reasons which may not arise as of the primary importance for the male while taking the decision to join a gang. Instead male may search some economic and pride benefits, such as “recognition and respect status” (Miller, Jody., 2001, p 20). which female may expect to earn too, but at the different extent. Living in a 'neighborhood...
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...Have you ever been afraid to go to the grocery store alone? Have you ever felt like you were being watched, or someone was following you? There’s a reason why, there are women and children being robbed of their freedom every day. In simple places like your local grocery store or movie theatre there could be someone waiting to take you from your normal life and sell you into slavery. Because of expanding gang activity and devastated families we should enforce more ways to identify the people involved in human trafficking. Though slavery was abolished many years ago in the United States, there are still several forms that exist today. One form that is on the rise is human trafficking, according to Joyce Hart this is what it looks like. “Human trafficking is the term that is used for modern day slavery. Some people are physically...
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...In the Poem “ Watsons Go To Birmingham.” and in the Memoir “ I escaped a Violent Gang.” They are both courage. In “ I escaped a Violent Gang” she has to stand up for herself against a gang. In “Watsons Go To Birmingham” the black people have to stick up for themselves because the whites are being mean to them. Even though they have the same theme they, are completely different. The action is different because in “ Watsons Go to Birmingham’ the black people are sticking up for each other across the whole world not just their self. Then in “ I escaped Violent Gang” she was only defending herself because a gang started staring attacking her. In the memoir “I escaped a Violent Gang. The theme is courage the author proved it to us because… At the beginning of the story, the girl has to deal with her uncle getting shot and killed. Which she has to overcome which can be sad because she probably barley saw him in her lifetime because she was only 5 and you can’t travel all alone....
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...at one time in history the black leather jacket reflected a statement of the bad boy, the rebel, the greaser, and gangs. The black leather jacket stemmed from the original World War II Brown Bomber Jacket. Pilots were issued a standardized brown bomber jackets also know as the A-2 flight jackets. These jackets were made out of horsehide and lined with a heavy fleece, designed to keep the pilots warm due an open cockpit and changing climate conditions experienced while flying. Another flight jacket that was issued in the service was the B3 Bomber Jacket made out of sheepskin. These bomber jackets became poplar with not only the pilots, but all different divisions of the US Military. Military men could have patches stitched on they jacket representing their rank and your division. Wearing theses bomber jackets not only represented a strong military man, it represented power and prestige. Of course the bomber jacket became even more popular with a 1957 movie “Night Passage”, staring Jimmy Stewart, wearing a brown bomber jacket. But when the movie “The Wild One” hit the movie screens in 1953 staring Marlin Brando wearing a white t-shirt, a pair of blue jeans, and a Black Leather Jacket, this was when the black leather jacket made it day beau! Marlin Brando played a character named Johnny who was the leader of a motorcycle club. In the movie Johnny and his gang ride along the open highway, free as birds, they decided to stop in a quiet little town were their...
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...Gangs By: Kanan Suleymanov A gang is a very complex group of people made by certain people in order to obtain money and power. It maybe hard to believe and one may think how is a gang even remotely complex? A gang is far from being simple and easy to establish it takes a lot of man power and intelligence. It is considered somewhat like a business an illegal one of course but a business never the less. In the dictionary a gang is defined as a group of people through organization, formation and establishment of an assemblage they all share a common identity. In the industrial age, which is the 1800s the word gang did not denote to a negative connotation but it actually referred to a group of workmen. In Britain the word is still used today as the original meaning but it later underwent what is known as Semantic Change. People always wonder why do others join gangs? Why would they just ruin there lives devoting it to crime and all these other terrible things that come along with problems within the gang? Some reason might be money, identity, discipline, recognition, love, belonging, and peer pressure. Others really have no choice. Imagine you’re a little kid living in the urban world, you know your family cannot provide for you the care that you want and the basic needs a child needs. The reason being for this is because they do not have enough money what would you turn to? You would of course go into the one thing that you may think is really easy and a fast way...
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