Essay about Analysis of Doctorow's Billy Bathgate

This paper will serve as a profile of a prison gang of your choice. You will research this gang, its origins, growth, culture and newsworthy incidents. This paper should include the influence gang membership has on inmates, their progress in their sentences, rehabilitation and recidivism.

The sad reality is that society does not take a minute to step out of their shoes and try to understand why someone becomes a gang member. Throughout Barking to the Choir, two common themes that arise is the lack of love, and growing up with a rough childhood. For many, survival becomes the priority, especially if they have siblings to look out for. Thus, gang life is not an ideal choice but rather a lucrative option. Through Rational Choice Theory, it is easy to place blame on the gang member, but the reality is that for a plethora of gang members there was no other

Gang crime is one of the most intriguing social phenomena’s across the world, as defining the deviancy has been difficult due to a broad range of definitions (Wood & Alleyne, 2010, pg. 101). One definition is given by David Curry and

Qualitative descriptions suggest that, for many, gang membership represents 104 Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice / May 2005an opportunity to enhance social capital as a means to cope with a multitude of problems. Although on balance gang life appears to be neither very rewarding nor satisfying (Hagedorn, 1988), identification with the gang is solidified in response to conflict—often with other gangs—as members pursue their individual and collective interests.

“Gangs have morphed from social organizations into full-fledged criminal enterprises” (Thomas, 2009, para 5). Gangs are highly sophisticated and more dangerous then ever. The number one reason to join a gang is money; and 95 percent of gangs profit comes from drug dealing

This page is dedicated to holding space and intent for the freedom of Piers Baker. He is nearing the end of a 10 year sentence for manufacturing marijuana and impeding federal officers in the performance of their official duties. His release date is in June of 2018. An inmate's success after incarceration is directly correlated to the amount of support they receive prior to release.

His family includes two aunts who have taken to murdering lonely old men by poisoning them with a glass of elderberry wine laced with arsenic. A brother who believes he is Theodore Roosevelt and digs locks for the Panama Canal in the cellar of the Brewster home. A murderous brother who has received plastic surgery performed by an alcoholic accomplice, Dr. Einstein to conceal his identity. Mortimer tries to figure out a way to hide the dead body that the women killed. I doing this Office O'hara and Officer Brophy would come into the story to try to find the murders that are right in front of there nose. The way Mortimer hides the body by using Teddy canal as a burial ground. The two women get caught as both officers come to arrest them.

The story takes place in the USSA, the United Safer States of America, a society that over the years has conformed to become safer. Even the simplest of things are illegal such as football, tattoos, piercings, large dogs, and french fries. The first example is in chapter 18 when Bo’s court date arrives. The text states “Finally I couldn’t stand it anymore. ‘Nobody got hurt,’ I said. Everyone turned to look at me. ‘I didn’t actually hurt anybody,’ I said, in case they didn’t get it the first time. The judge cleared his throat. ‘Mr. Marsten, you will have your

The sociological analysis of gang membership explores the different types of effects that arise due to criminal involvement. Because of the social conflicts that are associated with gang membership, this paper will explore the different theories of social learning and both personal and control issues that relate to the recent surge in crime across Chicago. As we open the doors of a crime ridden society, the truth begins to unfold. It isn’t just the thought of helping, it is the action that remains the barrier between living a life of crime or a life that carries hope.

In a study conducted by Albert Cohen, suggest changes in the social structure weakened the importance associated with delay of gratification” (Adler et al., p. 156). Widely associated with inner-city slums, low-income housing projects, turf wars, and a membership that often comes into conflict with law enforcement, gang life has become appealing to middle-class youths (Adler et al., p. 157). I firmly believe that middle class gang subcultures are form as an escape mechanism, in order to avoid, deflect, or change the current situation they find themselves.

When you think about criminal gangs, most people think of violent American gangs. But during the Sixties, London had two main rival gangs. The Krays and The Richardson Gang. The Last Gangster is Charlie Richardson’s gripping, thrilling and incredibly insightful book into his account of his life of crime, subsequent arrests and his jail sentence. Charlie manages to explain his entire life with great detail while writing in a more of a conversational tone that makes you unable to stop reading and build an emotional connection with him.

When Nurse Ratched arrives that morning, she gathers the patients together in one room to take roll. She realizes that Billy Bibbit is missing, and finds him in the Seclusion Room along with the whore he spent the night with. She reprimands him for having sex with such a cheap woman, then tells him that she will tell his mother about this. Billy begins to stutter again when Nurse Ratched threatens to tell his mother, but she takes him in the doctor's office so that he may calm down. When the doctor arrives, he finds that Billy has cut his throat and killed himself. Nurse Ratched blames McMurphy for Billy's suicide, and he responds by trying to strangle her. The black boys attempt to pull

With Subculture theories, Merton’s Anomie theory lent credence to theories such as Albert Cohen’s lower class reaction theory, Cohen suggests “formation of delinquent gangs is the result of status deprivation” (Hagan, 2008. P.151) where a lack of education and economic opportunities is viewed as a catalyst causing strain and hopelessness (Vito, Maatis, and Holmes 2006). According to Cohen, (1955.) The boys who became part of gangs aspire to standards that were opposite to those of the middle class, meaning “lower class reaction to middle class values”, Cohen explains the delinquent culture produced by gang involvement as not done to achieve monetary success, but rather status within the gang (Cohen, 1955. P. 202).

America is known as the land of opportunity. For some, that meant the opportunity to grab what they could with no fear of the law. In the early 1900s, the era of dizzying social change, anything seemed possible. With the right street smarts and gumption to pull any job off, many immigrants rushed to America to better their family’s lives. Members of each family would do whatever possible to make that household better, no matter the cost or consequence. This shifty attitude stemmed from many years of family loyalty, well, that was the case of many Italians from Sicily. This exuberant can-do spirit coursed through America’s immigrant-filled cities, industrial heartland, and freewheeling west, all fertile ground for empires to be built and money to be made. This was the birth of the mafia. There were four prominent mafias in the beginning years of America, and they were the Italian mafia, Russian mafia, Irish mafia, and the Jewish mafia. However, the focus of this paper will be solely based on the Italian mafia, and how family honor, respect, drugs, money, and running from the law created a fixation and aspiration on the American gangster image.

Back when Prohibition was the law of the land, gangsters ran the world. Cities in the daytime were bright and happy places, but at night gunshots could be heard around every street corner. Citizens lived in fear while police were paid to turn a blind eye when any gang related crime was committed. During this era of United States history, a little boy was born who would one day grow up to become the most feared mobster in America. Growing up in a poor immigrant family in Brooklyn, Alphonse “Al” Capone terrorized the streets of Chicago but was taken down by the IRS and tax evasion.