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Now more than ever, pandillas, or street gangs, are raising security concerns for multiple Central American countries, as well as the United States (Bruneau, 152). There has been an increase in the perception of crime among these Central American nations, such as Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador (Bruneau, 152). This is due, in part, to regional homicide rates, which are the highest in the world (Bruneau, 152). Consequently, the current state of crime and security in Central America continues

youth in Westmont so they have a safe environment where they can express their feelings and have a break from the violence present in the area. The center can also provide youth with healthy extracurriculars that may persuade them from partaking from gang/violent activities. Other simple solutions could be having universal background checks on purchasing guns and puting restrictions on guns. By working together as a community the neighborhood of Westmont can stop the very prominent violence plaguing

Navigation is as hard as it already is, and for many moving to new places is a hassle. Wherever they go, something also seems to get in the work and work against them. In the except, The Street, Ann Petry establishes the wind as a foe through the use of personification and imagery, to further intensify Lutie Johnson’s discomfort in the new setting. In the passage, the wind is described as an annoying and violent force which works against the people, and especially Lutie, showing her discomforting

Sherry Guillen Annotated Bibliography Duran-Martinez, A. 2015. “To Kill and Tell? State Power, Criminal Competition, and Drug Violence”. Journal of Conflict Resolution 59 (8): 1377-1402. Duran-Martinez article addresses the question of the wide range of variation in drug violence found in countries associated with drug trafficking. She argues that the interaction between cohesion of state security and criminal competition in the illegal market can be used to determine incentives to use violence

A young man, no older than fifteen, living in a quiet suburban neighborhood has just been broken heartbreaking news: his father has died. Coupled with grief and the new found stress and pressures of losing the sole economic provider for his small family unit, his mother takes on the economic burdens of the family. Not but two years later, tragedy struck this already broken household, the mother has been diagnosed with AIDS; she passes within the year. With no family left to turn to and with depression

of a Greaser gang, meaning they are considered hoods or juvenile delinquents by society. Other than being financially and socially disadvantaged, the Greaser’s main problem is getting jumped by the Socials, the rich kids from the West Side of town. Essentially, the Socs, are what make the Greaser’s life a literal living hell because they fear for their life anytime they encounter the Socs. Johnny Cade, Dally Winston, Two-Bit Mathews, and Steve Randle are also members of the Greaser gang. They all stick

Bleeding Gang violence is something that needs to be put to an end, and also people really needs to realize how foolish and waste of time it is. I like this text because although I’m not sure if it’s based on a true story, it has so much emotion and meaning behind it. I 100% agree with the author on this text because many times does this happen to young teenagers losing their lives way to early due to gang violence. The purpose of the text was to show young men and women that staying true to gangs can

plagued by gang wars just like multiple cities throughout the United States. Unfortunately, the start of Gang Violence has been a mystery ever since it started to effect the public. And feuds, like the “Gianolla – Vitale” feud happened during the Prohibition Era. The gangs were controlling the whole city. There we dozens of crooked cops, judges were crooked, and pretty much every official in the city was crooked. But why did all of these terrible things happen in the City of Detroit? Gang violence

any type of business, organization, fundraiser, or charity. One of the most know money laundering criminal happens to be Al Capone. He has laundered more than 1 billion dollars in various different businesses. Being the leader of a notorious mobster gang he has to hide all of the money he earned illegally. He used a series of laundromats, them being cashed operated it was easy to hide the money he earned illegally. In a smart way he made it seem like they were gains of prosperity. This gave an opening

It was another typical autumn morning in Jackson, Florida, a beautiful, busy suburb of Miami. But as much as Jackson was beautiful, it was also a very dangerous town. There was a lot of organized crime in Jackson, and honest work was hard to find. The leaves were covering the streets, sidewalk, and the idle cars. The wind was a crisp cool breeze that blew across the city of Jackson. This was the city that Marvin Anderson lived in for the first twenty years of his life. Marvin Anderson was a tall