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Ca Sage Statistical Analysis
2,079 words... aires tends to fall into two broad categories - facts and opinions - and it is that at all stages of using questionaire's the researcher is clear about whether the information being sought is to do with facts or to do with opinions. Factual information does not require much in the way of judgement or personal attitudes on the part of respondents. It just requires respondents to reveal (accurately and honestly) information: their adress, age, sex, medical status, number of children etc. Opini...
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Urban Sprawl Cambridge Ma
1,306 words... ous legal devices including zoning, deed restrictions, and racially restrictive covenants to impose and increase racial residential segregation. Furthermore, real estate agents, appraisers, brokers and mortgage bankers ensured the concentration of poor minorities by refusing them access to property or loans. Many of these exclusionary practices persist today in the suburbs leading to a concentration of poor minorities in the inner city. Second, Suburbanites have an interest in decreasing the...
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Double Standard Of Masculinity In Gender Role Socialization
1,228 words... thrown to support the 'athletes', the 'stars' of the school. Girls swoon over the masculine 'hunks'. As young boys move into adulthood they are told to "be men" when confronted with a formidable challenge or when they face some sort of agony. The implication in this phrase is that men should be immune to pain and not show any emotion. To show emotion would be a sign of weakness and society would view them as abnormal or inferior (Pollack 1995). I have covered the socialization process showin...
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Portrayal Of Violence Violent Behavior
1,502 wordsMedia Report Is The Society And Youth Violent Because Of The Media? It is guns, it is poverty, it is overcrowding, and it is the uniquely American problem of a culture that is infatuated with violence (Prothrow-Stith). Research interest in the relationship of the mass media to social violence has been elevated for most of this century. Over the twentieth century, the issue of the media as a source of violence has moved into and out of the public consciousness in predictable ten- to twenty-year c...
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Law Enforcement Agencies U S Department
2,383 words... bats or brass-knuckles. The gangs were less mobile so their presence was generally limited to distinct neighborhoods and cities. Today with easy access to guns and automobiles, the youth gangs are more mobile, which increases their area of influence. The confrontations between gang members today result in more serious injuries and greater chances of fatalities due to guns. Even their involvement with the police is heightened due to their greater visibility in the community and increased over...
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Law Enforcement Officers Law Enforcement Agencies
1,954 words... not taking place would overstep the law's intent. Leslie Having, legislative director of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, echoes the sentiments of many criminal defense attorneys and civil libertarians who feel that the expansion of powers is an invitation to abuse: "It's not a power the government needs." There is much legislation being proposed that is requiring stricter court orders to obtain certain wiretaps. Conversely, Gregory Nicolaysen, founder of the Association...
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U S Department National Institute Of Justice
1,693 words... and female gangs are substantially less violent. The crimes committed by females were mostly simple battery or assault. Non-violent or petty crimes were mostly for drug and alcohol use. They may often be used as look-outs or to carry weapons or drugs for the male members. Females also tend to join or associate with gangs at a younger age and leave earlier then the male gang member. Why do youths join? Youths raised in impoverished and deprived conditions are drawn to gangs for the support, m...
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Oriented Policing Criminological Theories
2,255 words... response strategies is given greater weight and importance under problem-oriented policing than under community policing. Problem-oriented policing specifically promotes using alternatives to the formal criminal justice system, redefining the nature of the police's relationship to this and other systems; community policing does not explicitly address this relationship. Community policing strongly emphasizes organizing and mobilizing the community, almost to the point that doing so becomes a ...
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Values And Beliefs Group Of People
1,998 wordsAn Exercise in Ethnography I chose a student union meeting for my exercise in ethnography. I got interested in leadership that how the students learn to be leaders. I visited two meeting sessions to collect the information necessary to make the ethnographic analysis. I found out that the essence of the leadership lies primarily in the vision, beliefs and high expectations of the young leadership organization. All these aspects I will discuss later in my paper. As a guide line for my research, I ...
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Health And Fitness Athletic Prowess
2,478 wordsDouble Standard Of Masculinity In Gender Role Double Standard Of Masculinity In Gender Role Socialization Masculinity is a topic that has been debated in our society extensively, through research as well as in informal settings. Many wonder what it means to be masculine, and if we can really assign a definition to such a subjective term. After all, shouldnt ones own perception be the determinant of what constitutes masculinity? This self-construction would be the ideal in our society, but unfort...
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