... Gabriel Valley, and Down Town Los Angeles. The 18th street has murdered 153 people between 1985 to 1995 (www.street gangs.com). Another famous gang is Crips. There are 199 Crip gangs active in LAC. There are more Crip gangs then there is Bloods in LAC (www.street gangs.com). The Crip's wear blue to represent their gang. The book The Great Gatsby had corruption also. It was based in the 1920's naturally ... , killed Gatsby (F. Scott FitzGerald). The corruption in the book The Great Gatsby is similar to the corruption now. The gangsters in the 20's use to bootleg (sell alcoholic drinks) wh...

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... further despair. Through his love he has betrayed her and led her even more deeply into sin. And so her love turns to hatred of the betrayer. Love has little chance of surviving against the intensity of her concern for her own purity and clarity of conscience. For her there can be none of ... that she was led into it, that it was not really her fault. If Bertrande wants to cleanse herself of sin, she must cease to accept the role of wife. At first she tries to deal with this by begging her "husband" to leave her, but when he refuses, saying that it would confirm ... her in what he claim...

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... from set-backs leads Terrence to a courthouse, and, inevitably, jail. Craig Davis, a young man close in age to Terrence, becomes somewhat of a neighborhood hero. The community loved him, his peers respected him, and younger children in the neighborhood looked up to him. Craig flourished in a community of drugs, gangs and murder, out-letting his boredom and frustration through music and deejaying. Craig ... was one of the few people who held the weak community of Henry Horner together. He was a staple ... His resiliency, his own ability to break down barriers and to adjust positively to...

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... New Mexico, and eastern New Mexico, and were on many trail drives so they knew the territory, the settlers, and ranchers very well. Black Jack's first crime was the murder of his neighbor John N. Powers; he was shot down December 12, 1895 by Black Jack and several other men. In 1892, Black Jack, his brother, Sam, and several other outlaws learned that an Atchison, Topeka ... mistakes like they just guessed his weight wrong, which is why he is the only person beheaded by accident. Thomas was buried at Clayton's Boot Hill but was moved to a different cemetery in the 30's. It's also rumore...

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... out of London, Reynolds put together a perfect plan for robbing the train. The most important factor in the elaborate plan had to be found, which is the location. Reynolds was looking for somewhere close enough to London so the police would not be alerted to changes in the activities of the gang members, before and after the robbery. They also looked for a hidden spot that was close to roadways that had heavy ... returned to work on the railways of England again. He died in 1970 from leukaemia, the one victim of the Great Train Robbery. After this sad incident, things went downhill for al...

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... might be most effective in bringing down the crime rate? Well first to bring down the crime rate society must redefine what is a crime. According to the consensus view, crimes are behaviors considered harmful by a majority of citizens that because of their potentential for causing social harm have been controlled or prohibited by the existing criminal law. Some people believe that the law and the concept of crime is ... criminal act. For example gambling on sports is considered a crime but in actually it is not view as a crime by the majority of society because it does not hurt society at...

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... increased by 2.1%. There is also the idea that it violates "cruel and unusual punishment" in the constitution. However, even with all this evidence I do not believe the death penalty should be abolished. I believe in the saying, "an eye for an eye." I also disagree with the defense that the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment. If someone is convicted of murder which in itself is beyond cruel and unusual ... it should be punished by the same. Even with evidence supporting the abolition of the death penalty, I believe in the statement, "an eye for ... an eye." It may cost much ...

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... infamously known as the nightstalker, was a serial killer who haunted the city and suburbs surrounding Los Angeles, CAlifornia, in the 1980's. Ramirez grew up in El Paso, Texas. He was the product of a hard working Mexican family. His father was a police officer, and his mother a home maker, who would knit scarves and sweaters to sell on the street for some extra income. He was the youngest child. He ... by soiling them with gasoline and setting them on fire before he would but them out of their misery. This is a characteristic he would show later in the form of mutalation of the bodies...

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... Braintree, Massachusetts. Two men standing by a fence suddenly pulled out guns and fired on them. The gunmen snatched up the cash boxes dropped by the mortally wounded officers and jumped into a waiting automobile. On the evening of May 5, 1920, a police trap that had been set for a suspect in the Braintree crime, two Italians, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were obtained. Both originally were not ... Braintree crimes. Earlier, Vanzetti was also charged with a holdup attempt that had taken place on December 24, 1919, in the nearby town of Bridgewater. The arrest of Sacco and Vanze...

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... and music, kids spend too much time on it. Not only is this expensive, but it interferes with more important things. Instead of working on school work in, and out of school, kids are on the internet doing other things instead. They may not be spending time with family or going to certain events or places they need to. It is easy to ... a password on these kinds of web sites. Children, mostly teens, may become victims of a crime. Criminally or psychologically disturbed individuals are disguising themselves to talk to young adults in chat rooms. They get close to these kids and gain their...

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... as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless. -Victor Hugo Everyone in the world at some time is kept down by social injustices. The main motives of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables is to bring to light the toil and horrible conditions of the people in 19th-century France. The problems in Les Miserables include: government corruption, poverty, and crime. Because of these main issues ... of people starving; even in the US, people are homeless. The structure of society mainly chooses who is poor and who is rich; it also depends on the person. A person can be guar...

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... be shame? Nobody would see them." Punishments were not meant to benefit the criminals. Today, they are sent to prisons in hopes of rehabilitation. There are programs in prisons to help inmates change and hopefully they will turn out for the best. In colonial America they were punished publicly, resulting in setting an example for the other members of society. They were considered to be delinquents and unable to ... they chose. I would like to further prove my point by the extensive changes in society's outlook of criminals since colonial American times, by giving the following example: ...

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... capital punishment can be defined as being the process in which a person is put to death as a punishment for a crime. It is also known as the death penalty. Coincidentally, that is the definition of murder. The death penalty punishment is the act of deliberately taking the life of another person. Currently, there are thirty-six states in the United States that have legalized the death penalty. This must be changed ... a lot of truth and meaning to it. Human beings are famous for their abundance of mistakes they make. In the case of the death penalty, however, error becomes a risk to innoc...

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... seven women and five men, all from very different. Ms. Hearst claimed she was brainwashed into committing the acts she was being charged with. In fact, the simulated personalities of Ms. Hearst played a major role in the trial and contributed the narrative guidelines and visual images used by the jury to evaluate her gestures, appearance, and testimony. Many considered this trial to be more of a ... reduced and her conviction overturned. Martinez argues that Bailey's interests in writing a book on the case, together with his constant attempts to keep himself and the trial in the news, con...

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... constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment or United States Supreme Court interpretations thereof. The amendment effectively nullifies rights currently allowed under the state prohibition against cruel or unusual punishment which may afford greater protections for those subject to punishment for crimes than will be provided by the amendment." I"m going to vote no on this issue, because to me it seems like it ... saying, we are going to use every possible way to kill the person regardless of what the Supreme Court says ... , even if they are wrong. The death penalty...

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... . It is also a great window into the minds of the people that join the movement. Hoffer does a great job of breaking down what kind of person it takes to join these mass movements. Hoffer explains what appeals to the people so that the people will actually join the movement. He points out that many people are attracted to the idea of a sudden change in their life. To these people the movement is a quick ... movement is custom made for a criminal, or sinner. Hoffer explains" "It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned upon, should find in ...

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... . No other country in the world has imprisoned so many of its citizens, this worries me , does the fact that we have so much more freedom cause this problem or do people just lack the respect for life or something else all together . Here is my theory crimes are a disease and just like a physical disease it spreads not through the body but through the society which we live ... . it is incurable but can be slowed down like Aids but we will never win we will never totally get over this great disease no cure is for seeable in the near future who knows maybe it will never happen ... .This i...

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... .html) These unjust executions are the result of errors in eyewitnesses or the lack of DNA evidence present at the scene of a murder. Another reason why the death penalty, in my opinion, is irrational, is because it is racially biased. The death penalty does not recognize the worst offenders, however, it does separate out single arbitrary groups, such as the color or race of the defendant. Studies suggest that ... for every white executed for killing a black person, 14 black people were executed for murdering a white person. (http://www.skepticism.net/articles/2001/000019.html) Also, in ...

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... Birmingham Jail" written by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is the most outstanding example of argument I have ever read or heard. What is the most shocking about the letter are the conditions Dr. King was under when he wrote the letter. He wrote portions of the letter in the margins of a newspaper and on scraps of paper until his attorney was allowed to supply him with paper. I assume that ... King did not have the luxury of referring to any books because King was ... not even allowed paper. The fact that King was able to ... ...

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... The Outsiders takes place in a rough city that consists of two sections. The upper half was the "soc" territory or the rich socialites. The lower half was the poor, bad part of town or "Greaser" territory. The author wanted to show that these groups of boys were bad and "tuff." The entire "Greaser" wore long hair, jeans, old T-shirts, and leather jackets. The "Socs" wore kaki pants, and jackets. The ... but they cannot. I think the theme of this book is that a person cannot judge people by how they are dressed, where they are from, or by their friends just like we can not judge a book by...

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... in the USA since 1990. More then 3,300 others are on death row. The application of the death penalty is racist. Black and white people are the victims of violent crime, 82 % of people executed since 1977 have been convicted of killing white victims. An aspect that should be looked at when you are considering if the death penalty is an effective deterrent from crime is how the penalty is looked upon by the ... you and then the person who stole your money has the same thing happen to them? The criminal brought his punishment upon himself they deserve what they get. This code claims that an ...

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... Mr. Glenn; who would make visits regularly to beat him and to tear down his spirit. Henry Young was forced to make friends with insects and rats in order to keep from going completely insane from loneliness. Upon being released from solitary confinement, Henry Young would be eating lunch in the mess hall, his brain taunting him with thoughts he was forced to endure for ... , caused such Psychological trauma to his mind that his only instinct after solitary was murder. Henry young did not go into the dungeons as a violent man, but he came out a vicious, barbaric, maniacal murderer. There ...

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... me for money. Often there would be children or families sleeping on the street. I felt bad when I had no money to give them because they looked so poor and destitute. Fifty percent of Mexico City's population is very poor and I found this very disturbing. When I got off of the plane I noticed the pollution right away. It was like being hit with a wave of exhaust ... so do smokestacks from factories. I did not get sick from the water because we had a water purifier on the faucet. However, when we ran the tap without the purifier, the water was brown and not fit to drink. In Mexico I was ...

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... In the movie La Historia Oficial, Alicia is a mother in Argentina who has adopted a young girl named Gaby. In Argentina, a lot of people were kidnapped and forced to have babies and sell them on the black market. Many are still considered missing, as they are victims of these kidnapping crimes. Alicia comes to suspect her husband may have bought Gaby on the ... black market. He denies it at first, but when a woman comes to Alicia with pictures of her daughter and son-in ... not have understood anything her mother was going through because she was too young. I think it is very sad this h...

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... they could put Capone behind bars. Income tax was developed in the 1930s. According to Investopedia.com, "A tax that governments impose on financial income generated by all entities within their jurisdiction. By law, businesses and individuals must file an income tax return every year to determine whether they owe any taxes or are eligible for a tax refund. Income tax is a key source ... of funds that the government uses to fund its activities and serve the public." Everybody knew Capone was a very wealthy individual but no income tax return was filed ... people, bootlegging, under gro...

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