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Showing 1 to 20 of 301 for “"Gang"”.
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Controlling gang crime: The Santa Nita gang injunction
The purpose of this study will explore increasing gang membership, gang structure, and strategies utilized by the criminal justice system in attempting to curb gang-related crime and activities. Through a quantitative research study, the researcher examined crime in the cities of Garden Grove, …
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Controlling gang crime: The Santa Nita gang injunction
The purpose of this study will explore increasing gang membership, gang structure, and strategies utilized by the criminal justice system in attempting to curb gang-related crime and activities. Through a quantitative research study, the researcher examined crime in the cities of Garden Grove, …
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Narratives of gang desistance amongst former gang members
Gangs are found all over the world, including South Africa. In Cape Town specifically, gang involvement is a critical problem in need of intervention. Despite this, little research has explored the perspectives of former gang members on leaving and staying out of the gang. Understanding how and why …
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Understanding female gang involvement in Mitchells Plain, Western Cape: exploring female gang involvement
The dissertation focuses on understanding female gang involvement in Mitchells Plain, Western Cape: Exploring Female Gang Involvement. The purpose of this study was to explore realities of female gang involvement in the Western Cape, South Africa in a township called Mitchells Plain making use of …
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Exploring anti-gang advertising: Focus group discussions with gang members and at-risk youth
The use of advertising to discourage gang membership is a issue that has been heavily debated, but the controversy has continually overlooked the children for whom the ads are intended to help. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the use of anti-gang advertising by seeking the opinions of …
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Inmate and Prison Gang Leadership.
… Inmate leaders, selected for the study, included gang leaders and non-gang leaders. Interviews were tape recorded and transcribed for the data analysis. To capture the essence of the interviews, interpretivism was used for the analysis. A holistic view allowed certain overlapping themes to be …
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Are gang injunctions a tool for gentrification? : the case of the Glendale Corridor Gang Injunction
… and focuses on the Glendale Corridor Gang Injunction. The injunction encompasses both the Silver Lake and Echo Park community, but mostly is in the Echo Park neighborhood. Echo Park is a community in LA that has undergone significant demographic changes in the past ten years. Local …
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Contested governance: police and gang interactions
Gangs in Cape Town have long been associated with high levels of violence and police efforts on the Cape Flats, while state agencies have not yet been able to bring any significant relief to the affected communities or growing gang structures. It seems the conventional approaches need …
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Leadership in Gang-Impacted Schools: How Principals Lead in Schools That Have Less Gang Activity Than Their Community
A safe (free from gang activity) and disciplined school environment conducive to learning is mandated by federal legislation such as the No Child Left Behind Act. Research has concentrated on reasons for gang activity in the school and the community as well as leadership in general but there is a …
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Factors associated with rural Mexican American gang activity
… examines factors related to Mexican American gang involvement in rural communities. Data for this study were obtained from a larger, cross sectional study on adolescent drug use in rural areas. Survey data from a total of 746 males (373 gang members and 373 non-gang members) and 290 females …
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Gang task forces: formation, network structure, and effectiveness
Gang task forces are multi-agency collaborations that seek to address and quell gang problems in the communities they serve. From a sociological perspective, gang task forces offer a rich topic ripe for study. Why do gang task forces form? Are certain demographic and political environments more …
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Critical media literacy and students in youth gang
The representation of youth in gangs in the media has tended towards portraying these individuals in a negative light, especially regarding the theme of violence. Such representations have political consequences for how these individuals are perceived and treated. Too often what is missing from …
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Splendor of Ruins: Gang, State, and Crime in Honduras
Splendor of Ruins examines the growth of street gangs in Honduras in the aftermath of the Cold War, as a flourishing criminal economy and the devastation of Hurricane Mitch destabilized life in the capital, Tegucigalpa. I examine the displacement of smaller gangs in the city by the broad community …
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Educating 'Gangsters': Social space, informal learning and becoming 'Gang' involved
… are educated into groups commonly described as ‘gangs’; in particular, this thesis outlines the role that social space plays in such educative processes. This focus enables both a new contribution to knowledge in the field of ‘gang’ studies and understandings of the way social space is used, …
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Voces de Las Madres: Traumatic bereavement after gang-related homicide
… influencing bereavement following Latino gang-related homicide in the Southwestern U.S. A hermeneutic approach explicated bereavement experiences of two mothers, one Mexican American and one Pascau Yaqui/Mexican, whose sons were killed in the same gang-related event. Responses to …
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Gang members' experiences of victimization and perpetration of rape in prison
… prison tend to imagine sex in prison as violent gang attacks on defenceless individuals, but in actual fact, sex in prison is more complicated than the isolated gang rapes that take place. For the purpose of this study, the researcher followed the qualitative research approach from a …
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Georgia Middle School Principals' Awareness of Gang Activity in Their Schools
… Georgia middle school principals' awareness of gang activity in their schools. Selected characteristics of the principals and their schools were studied to ascertain the effects of those variables on the principals' awareness of gang activity. Also studied were the actions the principals had …
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An investigation of socio-psychological factors that influence adolescent gang membership
… in youths who may be at risk to joining gangs.
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