Bonnie And Clyde: One Of America's Most Dangerous Crimes

The Midwestern Crime Wave All across the nation during the Great Depression people were jobless, homeless, and starving; nowhere was this truer than in the American Midwest. Not only did the farms and cities of the Midwest have to deal with the poor economic conditions but the Midwest's main source of income, agriculture, was being ravaged by the natural phenomenon now called the Dust Bowl. On top of low crop prices and a lack of employment farmland was ruined, went unplanted, and was often foreclosed

and corruption. The first important criminal industry of the 1920's was bootlegging. Bootlegging consisted in illegally supplying or producing liquor. When the prohibition was enforced during the winter of 1920, its original goal was to "lower crime and corruption, reduce social problems, lower taxes needed to support prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in

Returning to Normalcy America was changing during the 1920’s, so much that most of that generation was heading to one of the most challenging times, the government and its citizens would share this alike. The Red scare Most americans coming back from the harshness of world war 1 faced a problem that would strike fear into the hearts of the american people. The Red scare was after the bolshevik revolution, which led many americans to believe that immigrants fleeing from the revolution were spies

19th century ...[America has been] the most homicidal country in the Western world” and holds that title today (Kelley, 2009). In a 2007-2008 list of 31 nations, only two nations, Mexico and Chile, had higher homicide rates (Comparison, 2010). Nations with higher populations, such as India and China have fewer homicides (Comparison, 2010). Further, a nation such as Japan, which has a lower population but a higher population density then the United States, has one of the world’s lowest homicide rates

The issue of guns is one of the most prominent social problems in the United States, and every time after the shooting incident, the voice of gun control became to rise and the debate of banning guns emerge again. What People can do is only to offer their condolences, griefs and protests for gun violence, and stand for moments of silence. People still don’t have any law of gun control in return even if in the face of these bloody statistics. Because this issue is not just a simple social problem

constitutional rights, while others see lack of gun control to be astoundingly dangerous and entirely chimerical. Protection of oneself and their rights may or may not be more important than hundreds of lives lost potentially due to fairly unrestricted gun