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The expansion of the western frontier was in a time where groups had conflict concerning political, social, cultural, and economic power. In Chicago there are still high rates of crime, especially gun violence, the gangs of Chicago fighting for their turf, and the police trying to rid the city of these gangs. There were many conflicts with the Native Americans as the new nation expanded westward. In present day, gangs acting as movement of people in urban areas in Chicago to rise against the system

How do medical marijuana dispensaries impact the communities around them? Is the result positive or negative? Do they harm or heal? Medical marijuana dispensaries have become more common in today’s world, leaving controversy in their wake. Even though some people believe medical marijuana clinics attract crime, they actually help the communities around them by boosting the economy and benefitting those with medical need. Dispensaries help the local economy in many ways, including creating jobs. More

Over the years, youth gangs have been a continuing issue in certain neighbourhoods across the world, specifically in inner cities. The scholarly definition of a gang is a group that remains together for a phase of time and has a territory that they claim to be their possession. Primarily, the group participates in illicit and illegal activities that break the law (Curry & Decker, 1998). Communities and the government try to find preventative measures to decrease the number of youth gangs in the area

Many of the research that has been done on gang membership have been concentrated on the male population. The minimal work that has been done on female gang membership is reference to the young women has secondary roles or as sex objects in the gangs. However, women roles in gangs are changing in a steadily pace in which female gang member are committing more serious criminal crime and delinquency. The delinquency has been linked towards both serious and minor forms criminal activity. The delinquent

A majority of criminal activities in the U.S are related to gang violence. A common reason for these crimes is due to poverty, low employment, and no education. On another note, a gang is defined as being an age-graded peer group exhibiting some permanence and establishing a sense of boundaries through the gang-identified territory, style, and such oppositional practices as fighting and criminal activity (source.). A lot of big cities like Chicago or Philadelphia are considered as one of the most

Draft 2 Have you ever been to a place and have seen something or simply have smelled something that made you reflect on something that you witnessed when you were younger, or reminds you of a joke that you and your friends cracked up on the other day. Have you ever seen people walking down the street that look like people that you have seen before? Theses are called memories; memories often occur when you have done something and are remembered by the five senses touch, smell, sound, sight, and,

Following the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the political void left in its wake, a rapid formation of extreme Islamic groups occurred within and surrounding Iraq. Growing in power continuously ISIS (The Islamic state of Iraq and Syria), created Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi (McCants 2015:10), would become the center topic in geopolitical conversations regarding terrorism and extremism within the U.S. Revisiting the U.S prior to the turn of the 21st century in the 1970s and on, Gang violence was the main wildfire

Researching gangs can be a delicate and complex topic. While researching and collecting information I found a noteworthy pattern, showing that the underlying topic in a majority of the articles surrounds gangs and their aim towards to violence and crime to survive and thrive. In essence many drug retailing gangs have tendencies to distrust and depend on violence and illegal methods of business. As well as vandalizing the community, which they see as exhibiting their signs and displaying their territory

“The habitus, a product of history, produces individual and collective practices - more history - in accordance with the schemes generated by history. It ensures the active presence of past experiences, which, deposited in each organism in the form of schemes of perception, thought and action, tend to guarantee the ‘correctness’ of practices and their constancy over time, more reliably than all formal rules and explicit norms.” Bourdieu, Pierre, and Richard Nice. “Structures, Habitus, Practices

Millions of crimes are committed every year in the United States. Many of these crimes are committed by teenagers all around the country. They are driven to choose this lifestyle because of different reasons. The reason could be poverty or peer pressure. Teens may join a gang for protection or a sense of belonging. In the case of an eighteen year old boy from Akron, he has lived below the poverty line his whole life. Albi is an only child who has lived with his mother his whole life. Albi was the