Matthews is a passionate, courageous and remarkable woman. She stands up for the youth because no one stood up for her. Another interrupter is Eddie Bocanegra; he spent 14 years in prison for a murder he committed when he was 17. Bocanegra spent his time visiting schools and talking to young children about violence. Eddie is a strong advocate in his community.
Olson, aka the ‘child killer’, born in Vancouver British Columbia into a relatively stable home environment, began his criminal career at the young age of 13. Like most incarcerated serial killers, Olson began as a juvenile delinquent committing less serious crimes such as theft, torturing animals, and repeatedly skipping school. His crimes became more serious into early adulthood committing, and being incarcerated for things like fraud, impaired driving, and armed robbery, but still nothing comparable to the disturbing murders he would later accomplish in life. Before being arrested, and admitting to the brutal rape and killing of 9 girls and 3 boys in 1982, law officials labeled Olson as a “hardened con-man, but not a killer” (Peter Worthington, 1997, para 7). As Olson’s former parole officer Bob Lusk said ”He was seen as a thief, a false-pretense artist, a garrulous, extroverted, egotistical kind of person, but not as a sexual offender” (as cited in Peter Worthington, 1997, para 7).
Characters without power attempt to promote themselves through dramatic and often violent ways. Sasha is central to the theme of power within the story. He is a young and popular leader of a criminal fraternity – making his way through violent and illegal acts; “Sasha was ringleader and mastermind.” Anyone who crosses Sasha will come to regret it as he mercilessly seeks revenge. A road rage incident ends up with Sasha hurling a sour pint of milk through his enemy’s window, whilst his sister’s violent boyfriend ends up literally nailed to the wall. The novel opens with Sasha meeting the main narrator, Louie, and she soon learns the extent of his power; “impressing him was everything.’ Sasha’s power comes from his personal sense of self confidence and strength, as the reader sees him ‘glare like a wolf’ at anyone who might threaten a blind man on the train.
Earlier on it was believed that women were too fragile to defend their own and to this day this mentality still holds, as such strong viable men must come to their “rescue”. This idea of thought creates a division between masculinity and femininity. The attitude of masculinity is demonstrated within the system of policing through the power and control that they hold in their authority. Whether it is male or female, the positions of law enforcement are considered to be a masculine by most. The police exhibit this form of masculinity through intimidation, verbal and at times physical violence.
Western societies, such as those Ross Kemp describes, often portray women as subordinate and inferior to men. For example, Kemp illustrates the process of initiation for women gang members; “if she refuses, the women surround the girl and invite her to choose between the same violent jumping as men, or the ‘train’. The train is gang rape.” The word ‘train’ is an example of subject specific lexis, isolating the gang from the rest of society with their own language and different knowledge of their concept. There is a juxtaposition between the lexis 'women' and 'girl' highlighting a sense of innocence and vulnerability. We do not expect the women Kemp describes to survive the tortures of the gang, for example having to either be beaten up or continuously raped for the rest of their life, but there’s an argument that assumes they are already surviving.
Neighbors -- actual residents of Dorchester -- grab their moments of immortality before the TV cameras. The disappearance of the adored kid has given rebirth -- so it appears -- to neighborhood solidarity. But heat does not lead to progress. So, Aunt Bea (Amy Madigan) hires a local PI, Patrick Kenzie, (Casey Affleck, the director’s younger brother.) The skinny but explosive man with a baby face and a large gun also grew up in the hood.
Rodriguez’s aim was not to offend anyone, but merely to open the eyes of his son who had recently joined a gang, Tiffany L. Youngren could not have said it better when she exclaimed, “Rodriguez wields life together like a tool, splitting stereotype cleanly down the middle and scooping out characters that are complex and whole… the people in his stories abuse drugs, start fights, steal and gang-bang, but they are human above all” (Youngren). Always Running by Luis Rodriguez with its explicit language, forbidden tales and gang warfare, describes exactly how life on
Dismantling Gangs Throughout time, gangs and gang culture have been a distinct force within communities and social ladders worldwide. The government has implemented many ideas and put them forth to work against the gangs, but gangs continue to add to their numbers due to traditional recruiting processes. Gangs make up a significant portion of the United States subcultures in the inner cities and suburbs alike. The only way to combat them is to stick to some sort of effective deterrent against these men and women, which has unfortunately, yet to be found. The politicians and law enforcement agencies need to remember that the gangs must be targeted and attacked as a whole, and not to single out a certain individual within the group.
Female gangsters were assumed to be just “sex toys,” “objects” or “tomboys” to the male gangs members, an assumption that has carried over to contemporary stereotypes of female gangsters whether these stereotypes of female gang members as “tomboys and sex toys” are accurate it is difficult to confirm because often these stereotypes do not come from reliable sources.” “Females join will join a gang for the same reason males join gangs, economic considerations, protection, lack of a stable family background, and respect. Female gangsters engage in the same types of criminal and noncriminal activities as boys. They can be very violent as well. According to Huizinga (1997), female gang members account for more violent crimes than do nongang boys” according Delaney (2006,
Many prostitutes are taking advantage of, they are beaten by these men and many have even lost their lives. A pro legalizing prostitution Heidi Fleiss states that "nothing would happen to the client because he knows he won't be prosecuted for refusing to pay for sex". By legalizing prostitution "it would clean up a lot of crime and help protect women." "It would also reduce gender violence, allow women to escape prostitution" (Liberator). This would prevent guys from beating up prostitute and getting away with it.