Gang membership, Drug Selling, and Violence in Neighborhood Context

Regina started to spent less time at home and more time reading in the woods. They move again to Rocky Point during the winter, once they get there Cookie leaves to be with new boyfriend Red Devil, leaving them alone, not registered for school, without food and without heat. Regina’s older sister Cherie get’s sick of pneumonia and social services took them away once again. After Cherie recovers Cookie regains custody and Karl has agreed to return if Cookie stops drinking, the day Cookie came home smelling like alcohol Karl left. That year they go visit their grandparents are rejected and for the next two months they are living in their mother’s car. They are left alone in the car at night when she goes with someone to spend the night. When they do find someplace to live they have to leave due to the neighbors noticing the children are not going to school, are again living in the car. A few months later both Cherie and Camille moveout. When their mom gets a job at a Deli live in a room upstairs from it. Cookie gets upset when Regina comes home late resulting with her mother throwing a pan when Camille intervene her mother pushes her down the stairs. She was taken to the hospital. The hospital staff did not ask about their mother or went deeper into the story they told. Regina knew her sisters were not going to stay she decided to get a job at age 11 at the same place her mother works in. Her mother would

Regina is the definition of a drama queen. She does not have much of a relationship with her younger sister or either of her parents; however, they give her everything her heart desires. Her mother tries to be

The final lesson this show teaches me is to give people a second chance. In the season one finale, the residents of Storybrooke remember they are fairy tale characters, and initially, they all rebel against Regina, the Evil Queen, for trapping them all in the real world with a curse, but throughout Season 2, they slowly begin to forgive her, and they accept her as their mayor once more. Rumplestiltskin even forgives her for keeping Belle locked up in an asylum for 28 years. Her enemy, Snow White, even forgives her for separating her from her daughter, Emma Swan, for 28 years.

Another scene from to movie that shows prejudice takes place while Regina is describing another girl Janis. Regina says, "Janis, I can't invite you, because I think you're lesbian." I mean I couldn't have a lesbian at my party. There were going to be girls there in their *bathing suits*. I mean, right? She was a lesbian...all of her hair was cut off and she was totally weird, and now I guess she's on crack." Regina would

Regina’s “flawless” appearance established her power among other girls. Among high school girls, power is stereotypically established through looks. As shown in Mean Girls, girls will look up the person they feel has the ideal appearance. The random comments said about Regina indicate that she is idolized by many of the girls attending North Shore High School. Other girls know everything about her, because they want to be just like her. This entrenches Regina’s position at the school.

Niccolò Machiavelli says “he who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command”. Regina has all the qualities of an Machiavelli leader. All Machiavellian leaders follow the same characteristic traits. They are duplicitous and cunning. Regina George hides her true intentions by deceptive actions, when she got Aaron Samuels to fall back in love with her. Adding herself in the Burn Book was extremely crafty. She allowed herself to appear as a victim in order for her masterpiece of regaining control was successful. Machiavellian leaders are narcissistic and believe the end result will justify their actions. Is Regina George a narcissist? She does only care about one person’s interest, and that person’s is Regina George. She knows that it important to be feared than loved as a leader. Regina does not bother kissing up to get her way. She uses manipulation and control to gain power. Regina George has numerous of the same characteristic traits of Machiavellian

The correlation between gangs and drugs has always been an issue for the United States government. Major cities often overlooked the problem of youth gang violence, thinking it was only a 1960’s trend. Sixty years later, gangs and drugs continue to be a problem, but in an increasing number within urban, suburban and rural areas in the United States. People may characterize this problem with words such as violence, increase drug activity, and delinquencies, but not many seem to see the bigger picture. Lack of interaction, collaboration, and strategies from law enforcement, youth centers, businesses, churches, and political icons are increasing gang violence and drug related offenses in major cities. In such cities as Chicago, minority groups are the most vulnerable to joining a gang, which then leads to an involvement with drugs; they are faced with barriers – lack of family support, poverty, segregation, unemployment, etc. An incident that happened in Chicago history is the closing of the Cabrini-Green Project, where people involved with gangs had to find a new home, scattering gang-members throughout the city, and eventually leading to their spread and growth.

While this may seem unimportant it really sets up the theme of the popularity hierarchy through high schools. Because Regina is looked at to be a goddess or a queen, it was implied to Cady that she must listen to her and know

In the movie Regina is the popular girl, the queen bee of the high school, and everyone really likes her because she is very attached, but some people are scared of her or just does not like her. I would say that Regina was the popular girl where everybody wanted to be her, or even date her even though she is mean and rude to everyone. In one scene of the movie after she was hit by the bus and got hurt. When Cady went to bring Regina flowers and to apologize, she sees many people with flowers and cards to check on her surrounding her bed. Cady says “Regina, who was living proof that the more people are scared of you, the

But she never gives up, she always comes back after being knocked down. For example, her true love was killed by her mother, that destroyed her. But she used that pain and became queen with one of the most powerful empire in the enchanted forest. Life is full of pain and resilience is necessary, bad things happen but you can't give up, you have to keep fighting and Regina Mills does just that. She has an extreme capacity for love and all she really wants is happiness. She loved her mother, even after all she's done to her and done to take advantage of her. She also loves her son Henry who she would do anything to protect. She is very powerful and confident. She will always state her opinion and speeches up for herself, she doesn’t care about what people say about her, she always defends herself and has a confidence that I would love to have to never be afraid to voice my opinion and be my true

Regina George was able to rise to power simply by being herself and knowing how to work people. She knew that if she was nice to certain people, she could get what she wanted. Once she received whatever she desired or if they refused to comply, she could completely and utterly destroy them and their reputation by spreading rumors about them. She is popular and smart, basically the ruling queen of North Shore High School. Everyone lived under her rule, always trying to keep her happy rather than risk life as they know it. In her own way, she was a dictator herself. She ruled over everyone, their fear allowing her to keep her throne.

Everybody has a choice, but it’s up to the individual to the make a decisions on what they choice to do in a positive way, in every event that takes place in their life on an everyday basis. In today’s society dealing with Rational Choice a question always comes into play on why people engage in criminal behavior, but who really knows and most people wonder is it who they surrender their selves around in their social life or could it have been where they grow up and what they sense as a child with their parents or in just in the neighborhood. But that’s not just the end we then begin with when crimes do take place how can we show the criminal and society how the Criminal Justice System use it to deterred crime from happen and make people think twice of commit a crime again. Now I’m going to talk about these two topic more broad and let you in on how Rational Choice and Deterrence Theory around the world most places then other plays a great big part in people everyday life, and how you can see from the beginning who was the creators to make these great idea up and put them into play, to what is being done, and even more if this theories really works in the world that we live in now.

The evil queen ( Regina ) plays an amazing role in all of the stories. In Storybrooke the evil queen will stop at nothing to get her Snow White to leave town, she goes to great lengths and basically makes it her main goal to get her out. The evil queen acts innocent most of the time but is always most likely not. In the Enchanted forest the evil queen has to literally kill her father of for a evil spell to work, the queen will stop at nothing to see everyone around her hurting just for her to be happy. The queen plays a really strong and devise female character. I feel at times where she can be important so has a lot of other people doing her dirty work for her. Will do anything to get to the top or even to the be the best, always seems like she has a lot of personal issues and just people issues in general.

Why do we do what we do? To date, there are many theories and explanations to why humans operate in various manners. These reasons stem from a multitude of contemporary theories all the way to scientifically proven explanations, such as the physiological justifications for human reflex, the psychological reasoning behind forgetfulness, or even more historical theories such as Freud’s psychosexual theory of development. Likewise, many criminological theories can also be applied to the reasoning behind why humans operate in a particular way, more specifically, why they engage in criminal activity. A particular theory, which explores this behaviour, is the Rational Choice Theory. In this paper, the Rational Choice Theory will be extensively explored

People chose all behavior and including all criminal behavior. Which in this case the choices that criminals make brings them pleasure and adrenaline. Criminal choices can be controlled by fear of punishment, but not all the time. The crime will be limited when the benefits are reduced and the costs increase. Rational choice theory is a perspective that holds criminality in the result of conscious choice. Not to mention, that it is predicted that individuals choose to commit crime when the benefits outweigh the costs of disobeying the law. In the rational choice theory, individuals are seen as motivated offenders by their needs, wants and goals that express their preferences. This theory has been applied to a wide of range in crime, such as robbery, drug use, vandalism, and white collar crime. Furthermore, rational choice theory had a revival in sociology in the early 1960s, under the heading of exchange theory, and by the end of the decade was having a renewed influence in criminology, first as control theory and later as routine activities theory.