Gangs constitute one of the greatest threats to public safety. gangs contribute to 48% of crime in cities. Gangs should have stiffer penalties. Laws are too weak to scare off and oppose gangs and their members. Cities should sue and bid to make laws to stop the violence. Many kids and teens are joining gangs. Laws are weak in the face of rising gangs. Gangs have existed in the U.S. since the time of the American Revolution. It costs taxpayers five times more to incarcerate a child than to educate
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One of the most disturbing effects about today’s world is the rise in violence. Little or no attention is being given to the fundamentals of life. Brotherhood and personal responsibility are a thing of the past. Media violence‚ drugs‚ and upbringings are some of the causes for these changes in the way people think. Society has become more violent and dangerous for children due to the media. One in six children between the ages of 10 and 17 has seen or knows someone who has been shot. Television
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The issue of gang violence on the youth and communities in St. Kitts has been compounded over the last decade and have drastically increased over the years. As a direct result of the rise in gang violence‚ St. Kitts has been negatively impacted economically‚ socially and politically. Gangs thrive in an environment in which illegal and deviant behaviors are learned and improved upon‚ and methods for avoiding detection are taught. Gangs create a natural anti-social and defiant mannerism amongst its
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Annotated Bibliography for Gang Violence Fenestial Montgomery ENGL 103: Composition Writing and Research Colorado Technical University Professor Berardi July 21‚ 2014 Annotated Bibliography for Gang Violence Topic: Gang Violence Issue: Youths and Gang Violence Research Question: How to prevent youths from joining gangs and committing acts of violence? Melde‚ Chris‚ and Finn-Aage‚ Esbensen. “Gangs and Violence: Disentangling the Impact of Gang Membership on the level and Nature of Offending
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Violence and its Effect on the Community Charlotte Anderson-Brown Axia College of University of Phoenix Violence and its Effect on the Community Violence in the community has become a major issue. While due to law enforcement agencies‚ community education and crime watch violence can be circumvented; violence directly and indirectly affects how we live our lives. Let’s us first examine what violence is. Violence is a physical action‚ which takes place once a person becomes upset to a
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Reducing and Preventing Gang Violence Once an urban problem‚ street gangs have now infiltrated U.S. communities large and small throughout the country. According to the U.S. Justice Department‚ about 30‚000 gangs with around 800‚000 members operate in the United States. While experts agree gangs are more persistent than ever‚ few agree on a remedy (Triplett 1). There have been many attempts and ways that were put into the reducing of gang violence but it still remains to be a huge problem. Therefore
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English1101 Dr.Eric Martinson Zibo Liu Oct 23 2012 Religion Causes Violence LIU 1 September 11th‚ 2001 was one of the most disconsolate days in the history of the United States. Around 9:00 A.M.‚ American Airlines Flight 11 slammed into the north tower of the World Trade Center‚ and United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into another tower after twenty minutes. About one hour later‚ another airplane‚ American Airlines Flight 77‚ hit the Pentagon‚ and United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field
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Aswin Suseel Kumar 60347 Writing 101 – 10 AM 04-Nov-14 Is Terrorism the Answer? To what extent will you go‚ to prove your point? Would you kill someone for it? Terrorism is defined as an act of violence intended to instill fear in the minds of people and is organized to achieve a political‚ religious or ideological goal. The number of assassinations and bombings in the recent years has increasingly gone up that even a 4th grader knows what a terrorist attack is. Due to the actions of a few groups
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The Causes of School Violence School violence is only a recent thing. Roughhousing among teenagers in high school has always been prevalent‚ however‚ its extreme forms such as taking out vendettas against students or teachers or bringing deadly weapons to school have only risen in existence in the past thirty years. Now some have placed the blame on the violent video games‚ television and bad music. The first notable high school shootings didn ’t happen until the 1970 ’s (Centennial Secondary School
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Bad Drinking Habits: Causes and Effects Drinking is something that majority of grown people‚ and even youngsters‚ would do for fun. It is really a mind thing that would occur in these human beings. Although drinking could be very fun‚ there are people that would drink for negative purposes. Some causes of bad drinking habits are having stressful problems‚ and just being influenced by others that would drink a lot. If people don’t have self-control of their drinking habits‚ it can become something
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