Moreover, according to the article, “ The Projects” Diego Vigil explains his study on East Los Angeles gangs and insinuates that “social disorganization theory rests on the fact that cities function in a way that are similar to their environments found in nature”(2).In addition, during his study he explains the assumptions made by both McKay and Shaw, and suggests that the demographics of the communities like the projects, in particular, have lack of resources like: high unemployment, lack of financial assistance , and lack of healthcare are justifications that convey that these ecological and socioeconomic break downs are factors of lack of social control that lead many to deviance. He mentions that these are indicators of community disorganizations.…
The effect of poverty within the Indian reservation was detrimental to the Indian’s lifestyles. Alexie describes the…
Though adolescence and all cultures face many trials and tribulations as they grow from a child to an adult those faced by the Native Americans that live on the reservation are even more challenging. The young people on the reservation must deal with alcoholism, drug use, as well as inadequate supplies in their schools. Sherman Alexie does an excellent job in bringing these trials the reservation youth to…
Through childrearing form Native Americans, Modern American society can learn a lot of things about how to raise children. First one is that Native Americans respect their children as one individual person. Second one is that Native Americans allow their children to get same freedom of behavior as adults. Third one is that Native Americans share adult’s role with their children. Fourth one is that Native Americans permit their children to adapt themselves into the social order, and Native Americans do not usually inflict corporal punishment or oppressive methods on their children not to force conformity. Through those methods, Modern American children…
Anderson notes that two groups coexist simultaneously in the inner-cities which he labels as the “decent” and the “streets.” Although both groups suffer economic difficulties, they differ in values mainly instilled through parenting and the home environment. The decent group seeks to adopt mainstream middle-class values, such as a love, respect and law-abiding citizens nonviolently. Whereas the street-oriented group are mostly violent and feel disenfranchised. He states that the most common to feel disenfranchised are poor African Americans, especially the young.…
Conflict between European kingdoms led to an interest in colonies and trading posts that might strengthen the emerging nations. This expansionism introduced Europeans to African and American societies that had evolved over centuries, and the cultural interaction that followed initial contacts between these civilizations profoundly influenced western…
The reason why we see the Native Americans and African Americans down the stratification ladder is because for the fact that hundreds of years these two groups of people were used as slaves, and seen as something lower than a human being. After the slave trade ended, this world event in history, still excits today within these two ethnic groups. For example, The Civil Rights movement, this event was clearly a big step in American history to invert two different races together because of the color of their skin. To have taken down the rules that separates whites and blacks from ever interacting from each other was a really giant step into the normal day by day society that feared many white Americans. Many of these things that changed the world as we know it now, includes going to school, using the same transportation, watching a movie in the theaters, even using the water fountain and much more rules within the society that joined them together. All of these new rules did not come too easy to many white Americans, to now share almost everything was very hard and even a scary thing to do. The Canary Effect shows the untold stories between Native American people and white Americans, it is gruesome and a very true story. By taking their land, and killing their people is only the beginning of this story it can show how far American people would do to remove a race from earth. It even shows that American people would even Americanize the Native Americans to the point that they forgot their own heritage.…
In the article “The Code of the Street and African-American Adolescent Violence,” Erik A. Stewart opposes the research that Elijah Anderson has done. Anderson explains high rates of violence among African-American adolescents. Observing life in a Philadelphia African-American neighborhood, Anderson saw that economic disadvantage; Stewart begins by using the example of Anderson’s research on urban communities. The discussion on how Elijah Anderson conducted research on the living in poor and violent environment can cause young people to adopt the code of the street as a life style guide. With a synopsis made by Elijah Anderson which informed people of the reasons why the result of the observations were true. The reasoning was that urban communities lack either education or came from ‘broken homes.…
Gang-related crimes are one of the most discussed issues in criminal justice system. The root of gang violence could to be traced to as early as the 1900s. In the film, Crips and Bloods: Made in America, African Americans were being oppressed under the Jim Crow Law, which allowed for the legal segregation of Blacks and Whites. By forcing Blacks into their neighborhoods, the LAPD’s actions resulted in segregation, alienation and development of self-hatred (Peralta, 2008). At first, many activist groups were formed such as the Black Panther, though they never considered themselves as a gang but as a club (Peralta, 2008). Eventually, the groups were terminated and then African Americans found themselves helpless which lead to the formation of street gangs. Crips and Bloods are the biggest well-known gangs: it was formed due to racism (Peralta, 2008). “The Punitive propensity in the U.S. gang policies all too often ignores the context of offending and…
Without having a very good background in criminology, it's fairly safe to say that an individual that grows up will have an affect on how that person behaves to different situations that may present themselves in that person's life. Many different arguments can arise from this interpretation. One could argue that is environmental and bio-psychological factors that affects how a person were to behave which could lead to crime, but this is not always the case. More times than not, crime is perpetuated because of the conditions that people of the community are currently living in. A majority of these neighborhoods are poverty stricken for a variety of factors and because of the degradation of the community, people are stuck in this cyclical trap of poverty. The conception of the “American Ghetto” is a vicious cycle of factors that are not entirely in the control of the people living in poor neighborhoods. Poverty does not just happen, however.…
It was said that in LA County that African-Americans have a 1/29 chance of being murdered while whites are only a 1/186 chance. So why are blacks at such a greater risk than whites? One explanation can be the black on black violence that is occurring in our society today. Of the violence that blacks do use it has been reported that 94% of it is used on other black peoples. Early on in life is where the kids look up to their peers and want to do what they do and act how they act. And this sole factor is the reason the violence in communities is on the rise. The role models in these young black kids’ lives are often drug dealers or gang members and this can be attractive to the youth. They see all the material items these dealers and gang members have and they want it too. But what these children do not understand is the means that these older role models obtain these…
Child abuse usually spreads from family to family as children learn from their parents and their habits. Adults who abuse their children need to get help as well as the children who have been abused to stop further abuse from spreading. Both of these problems include violence and continue violence’s chain reaction. Many people might think that violence isn’t Chicago’s most pressing issue, and some may believe that poverty is Chicago’s most concerning issue. Although this is a valid concern, violence takes a big part in poverty and therefore the problem of poverty itself is not the greatest issue. For example, in Englewood in 2004-2008, 42% of households were under the poverty line and because of that, the homicide rates were 48 per 100,000. Violence causes poverty and because of that, poverty is not Chicago’s roughest issue. Violence is Chicago’s most pressing issue as it is the root cause of many other problems. Violence has to be stopped in order to make Chicago a better place and to eliminate hundreds of other problems that the residents of Chicago suffer. With the help of certain political figures, we can get rid of the majority of the gang activity in Chicago and therefore decrease the rates of…
Native Americans have faced prejudice, segregation, and racism for many years. More ways that the Government laws disturbed the Native Americans way of living;…
Historically, Native American tribes have struggled to keep their unique culture identities. This is largely due to the actions made by the federal and state governments as a result of ethnocentrism and indifference. In order to maintain cultural identity, generational traditions must continue from parents to their children and their children’s children. It is the very essence of how culture lives on in families and generations (Basic, 2004). From the time of the 1800’s, the Boarding School Movement, backed by the Federal Government, began the attempted cultural annihilation of the Native…
Money is such an important item in the ghetto. These people living here obviously want better for themselves. They say “I live here not because I choose to, but because I have to” (Jones, et al., 1997, p. 200). There is nowhere else they can afford. And they know that “poor adolescents are more likely to be exposed to violence, to feel more alienated from school, and to be exposed to high levels of stress” (Steinberg, 2016, p. 119). But there is nothing that can be done. They are victims to the community they live in.…