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Boys And Girls Los Angeles
1,899 wordsA year in the World of Female Gangsters: There is no way you can neatly squeeze in a single report what female gang life posses. What I am giving is highlights and statistics staffed with local information. There is no such thing as a typical gang each possess a history that reflects the community they grew up in. The research is in Los Angeles and smaller California communities San Antonio, Texas, and Chicago, Ill... Most research has been done in L. A. where female gangs have achieved a greate...
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State And Federal Lung Function
1,203 words... used a group of 6, 340 Seventh Day Adventists living throughout California (62 % lived in the Basin). Results of the study suggest a relationship between long term exposure to air pollution and the development of specific chronic diseases. Residents living in areas which exceeded state and federal standards for suspended particulates on 42 days or more per year had higher risks of respiratory diseases, including a 33 % greater bronchitis risk and 74 % greater asthma risk. In addition, women ...
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Young Men And Women Arranged Marriages
1,805 wordsAn Arranged Marriage refers to a situation in which marriage partners are chosen primarily by someone other than the partners themselves. These other persons are usually parents, but they may also be other kin, a matchmaker, or an agency. Because the marriage partners may or may not be consulted, this situation implies a strong sense of family loyalty. (Patricia Uberoi, p. 15) An arranged marriage is a type of mate selection in which the individual getting married has little or no choice in sele...
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Violence In Schools Violent Crime
1,127 words... age... " [I]t is not simply who has the abortion that leads to the lower crime rate... but the ability of the woman to choose better timing for child rearing that lowers criminality. " (Los Angeles Daily News, August 8, 1999, pp. 1, 18) What about the Brady Bill and other gun control measures? Didn't the Brady Bill play a big part in reducing gun crime? See Gun Cite's analysis of that claim. Four scholars discuss "Does Gun Control Work?" in PBS's moderated panel discussion, Think Tank (aired...
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Alcohol Related Problems Age Of 21
2,041 wordsCause and Effect of College Binge Drinking As young people enter the culture of the college campus, they are confronted with many challenges and opportunities: the opportunity to be independent of parental control; the need to conform; and the insecurity of a new social setting. While national surveys have documented a significant decline in the use of other drugs by high school seniors and college-age youths, there have been only modest declines in the numbers reporting binge drinking. Teenager...
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Child Abuse And Neglect Make A Difference
829 wordsOur nations is at war with a crime that has existed over the years and yet, we are still not gaining substantial ground in winning. That war is abuse toward our nations youth. Millions of children each year are being struck, violated, or put into any unspeakable situations that a child should go through. Every act of violence leaves a permanent scare in a childs life and in some cases, those scares never have a chance to form because they are brutally murdered for whatever brutal act was infring...
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Youth Violence And Television
1,668 wordsYouth Violence and Television Youth Violence Do The Young Ever Listen? It would be safe to say that American society is preoccupied with Television. If one asks the question, "How much violence is on television?" One finds that the level of violence has remained relatively constant over the last 2 decades. Most of the violence is directed mainly to the young viewers. All most all the television show depict violence in one form or another. If an average child watches 2 to 4 hours of television a ...
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Hip Hop Culture Make A Profit
1,881 wordsWhen you hear the phrase "Hip-Hop", music, dancing, rapping often come to mind. Well, it's all of that and more... Hip-Hop is a culture. According to Webster's dictionary, culture is defined as "the concepts, habits, skills, arts, instruments, institutions, etc. of a given people in a given period; civilization. " One artist defined Hip-Hop as "a set of expressions in vocalization, instrumentation, dancing and the visual arts. " More specifically, hip hop is a combination of graffiti, break danc...
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How Does Television Violence Affect Childrens Behavior
1,595 wordsHow Does Television Violence Affect Childrens Behavior Does television promote violence and crime among children? Although most people look at television as an entertaining and educational way to spend time, some people think there is to much violence in television and that is influencing our young into becoming aggressive in nature and to tolerate violence. Now scientists have discovered that all the violence in television can in fact mold a young innocent person into becoming a monster right u...
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Juveniles In The Adult System
843 wordsIf a twelve-year-old child murdered a person, what should be his / her punishment? If a thirty-year-old adult murdered a person, what should be his / her punishment? Should there be a difference in punishment? Should one be more strict then the other? Should one be more lenient then the other? These are all questions that most people have thought about. With all the youth crime talk in the media, these questions have been asked many times, and we always get the same outcome; DEBATE. One side of ...
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Drugs And Alcohol Gang Violence
1,938 wordsAlthough a lot of todays music deals with problems in society, hip-hop stands ahead of all other forms of music in dealing with social problems. Predominantly black, hip-hop music deals with issues and problems facing the black youth mostly in the inner cities. More commonly known as rap music, artists such as the Notorious B. I. G. , Bone Thugs N Harmony, and 2 Pac have lead rap music into dealing with social issues. These artists rap about welfare, degradation of women, gang violence, poverty,...
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Scotland Pride Or Shame
976 wordsGazing round the streets of Glasgow at around one in the morning, I fill with shame. Police sirens scream in exasperation and drunken fights cloud my eyes. The smell of alcohol and stale cigarette smoke advances towards me, making the food in my stomach churn. This is hardly a sight to be proud of I think, as I begin to realise just how ashamed I am of being Scottish. Although some people may argue over Scotland's good points. For example some of the scenery we hold is beautiful and that we have...
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Growing Problem Of Street Gangs In Canada
1,288 wordsIt is a scenario of nightmarish quality. An unsuspecting innocent individual has taken a short cut to get home late at night and is confronted by a group of individuals on a back street. However, this is no ordinary group of young men and women. This group is what is commonly called a street gang. Usually associated with poorer urban areas of the United States, street gangs have made a huge impact in Canadian Cities. Known for criminal acts such as robbery, assault and even murder, street gangs ...
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Correlation Between Child Abuse And Schizophrenia
609 wordsThe purpose of this research is to see whether there is a correlation between schizophrenia and child abuse. There were numerous studies and researches on that very subject, therefore it is not that hard to consolidate all the findings and come up with the justified conclusion. Based on all the research material available, it is evident that there is a direct correlation between child abuse and schizophrenia. Between 1992 and 1996, 27 adolescents with a abusive parent, 29 adolescents with no men...
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Death Penalty Drug Addiction
2,406 wordsPROPOSAL ON DRUG ABUSE PROGRAMS Introduction Drug addiction is considered as a gnawing problem because of its persistent negative effects not just to individuals but also to society. This paper looks at this problem exhaustively and proposes solutions as to how this can be remedied. There are different approaches that have been explored with regard to this matter. Tougher measures are encouraged here. However, death penalty for drug-related gang killings simply would not work too well in the lon...
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Juvenile Justice System Committed By Juveniles
1,968 wordsShould Juveniles Go to Adult Prison The question should juveniles go to adult prison is discussed in society and in media. Margaret Talbot article published in The New York Times magazine on rising number of adolescents and teenagers who are being imprisoned alongside adults and impact change may have on American society shows how important is this topic. Over the last ten years, the number of crimes committed by juveniles has substantially increased. By the time teenagers reach the juvenile jus...
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Savage Inequalities Racial Tensions
1,925 wordsSociety is constructed into a hierarchy of social classes; poverty is what separates the social classes apart. The elite rich are at the top of this hierarchy, at the center are the middle-income families, and at the bottom are the low-income families and homeless. Traditionally the rich exploit the poor for more money while the poor become even more destitute. In the United States, the minorities are typically in the poor low-income level. The essays, ? Savage Inequalities, ? ? Positive Functio...
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Juvenile Delinquency Parental Guidance
740 wordsWe have Essay JUVENILE DELINQUENCY We have all become used to reading about crime and violence in the new paper and seeing it reported on TV news. Such headings as Pregnant 15 year old shot to death on St. Louis school bus, or Toddler found murdered in rural Ohio are common place to us. But what we may not realize is that growing numbers of of these violent crimes are being committed by teenagers, even by children. The trend is being felt all over the nation, from big cities to small towns. Viol...
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Custom Publishing Beliefs Values
1,397 wordsThe System Today, a serious problem exists all over the world. Racial oppression takes place in the poorest and the richest countries, including America. Racial oppression is characterized by the majority, or the ruling race, imposing its beliefs, values, and laws on the minority, or the ruled race. In most areas, the ruling race is upper class whites that run the system, and have a disproportionate amount of power. In other areas, it may not be the white race, but it is still the race that is c...
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Four Hundred Years Romeo And Juliet
1,280 wordsRomeo and Juliet Four hundred years ago, William Shakespeare wrote The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, a popular play that continues to capture the imagination and emotions of people around the world. The drama portrays the passionate, violent and often desperate lives of the youth of Verona. Even today, the tragedy resembles a blueprint of the problems that the adolescents of the twentieth century must face each day. In this play, Shakespeare explores the pitfalls of young love, and the consequenc...
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