Youth gangs in North American society are nothing new. When we turn on the news we often hear stories of misguided youth contributing to yet another gang related crime. Even though it is known that youth crimes are overrepresented in the media today, the subject of youth gang activity is quite a predicament to our society. Over the last few years, there has been a moral panic created by constant exposure to the media which portrays a great amount of youth crimes and violence. In Canada there…
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David Leon Riley belonged to the Lincoln Park gang of San Diego, California. On August 2, 2009, he and others opened fire on a rival gang member driving past them. The shooters then got into Riley's car and drove away. On August 22, 2009, the Police pulled Riley over driving a different car. His car had an expired license registration tags. Due to his license being suspended. The police had the car impounded. Before a car is impounded, police are required to perform an inventory search to confirm…
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Precinct detective squad, said a few days later, frustration in his voice. “The only one they’re not telling is me. Mr. Maldonado, who was 24 when he was murdered. There was talk that a spurned ex-girlfriend was seen with a gun moments after the shooting, but witnesses were afraid to come forward.”(McKinley Jr., Southall and Baker 1) The woman Maldonado had an affair with comes from a drug selling family, who parents was involved in a drug ring, raised the woman and her two brothers around drugs…
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with the term, school shooting, which seemingly always ends in unforgettable tragedies. We will go through the lives of a few mass school shooters and their behavior before the horrific acts. Despite what we would like to hear, there were several particular social factors and warning signs that were obvious, yet ignored, in the events leading up to school shootings. Shooting massacres such as, Columbine, Virginia Tech, and Sandy Hook are great examples of mass school shootings. In addition to the history…
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blacks are so mistreated by police, what actually happened to train police to be so bias in the respect on equality? The claims of racist police is a drum that has been drummed for decades, how can this be true in a nation that has thrived on equal rights, and freedom for many years now. Police are simply responding to growing infraction of the law within inner cities, which is usually predominantly black. Inner city crimes which are sometimes violent, drug related, or burglary is always broadcasted…
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What Should Be Done About Gang Violence In Society? Many people in our society do not think that anything bad will ever happen to them. These people always hear about the issues and problems that are in the world today, but never think they will take place close to home. Gang violence is a major problem in our society today that takes place in many different areas of the world. If nothing is done soon, gang violence could take place in our neighborhoods. Gang violence is a big problem in…
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Boyz n the Hood: A Brief Analysis of Urban Planning and Related Issues The film Boyz n the Hood directed by John Singleton is an exceptional film that depicts the struggle of a young teenage boy who is caught between the forceful guidance of his stern father and the inescapable violence of his dangerous South Central Los Angeles neighborhood. The movie sheds light on the fact that the neighborhood had major planning issues that contributed significantly to the way the young teenager lived his life…
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on the escalating violence that has spread across the nation, and had such disproportionate effect on the lives of children and young people. In this installment we will look at the efforts that lawmakers, educators, and others have proposed to address the problem, and stem the tide of deaths. Despite the passage of a few months the violent deaths of the children in Newtown, Connecticut, and the shooting of Chicago South Side teenager, Hadiya Pendleton, their deaths have galvanized the nation,…
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representations alter their reliability in our collective memory. Using the texts of ‘True History of the Kelly Gang’ by Peter Carey and the related artwork ‘Death of Constable Scanlon’ 1946 by Sidney Nolan, and William Kentridge’s animation artwork ‘Felix in Exile’ also from 1946. These three texts challenge the reliability of history and memory through their exploration of the effects of post-colonial regimes within justice for the individual. It is important to remember that these texts are made…
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Some scholars criticise Cidade de Deus / City of God (2002) on the grounds that the film represents violence and poverty as a ‘spectacle’ and fails to relate these issues to the wider socio-political context of contemporary Brazil. Is this criticism justified? ‘There are…two kinds of film makers: one invents an imaginary reality; the other confronts an existing reality and attempts to understand it, criticise it…and finally, translate it into film’ Fernando Biri, 1979[1] Fernando Meirelles’s…
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