News tagged with gang
Record ivory seizures in 2011: watchdog
The past 12 months has seen a record number of large ivory seizures across the world, confirming a sharp increase in the illegal trade in recent years, a wildlife watchdog said Thursday.
Dec 29, 2011 |
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New research finds extreme antisocial personality predicts gang membership
Research into the 2011 London riots found they were mostly committed by antisocial persons, less than 20% of whom were explicitly gang members. This is because gang membership is primarily for the most antisocial of such ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 09, 2011 |
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Fighting violent gang crime with math
(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA mathematicians working with the Los Angeles Police Department to analyze crime patterns have designed a mathematical algorithm to identify street gangs involved in unsolved violent crimes. Their research ...
Oct 31, 2011 |
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China 'cracks down' on fake iPhones
Police in Shanghai have arrested five people for making fake iPhones, state media said on Friday, just as Apple fans overseas wait with bated breath for the launch of the US giant's newest model.
Sep 30, 2011 |
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Resisting peer pressure
The company an adolescent keeps, particularly when it comes to drugs and criminal activity, affects bad behavior. Right?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 28, 2011 |
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Thai customs seizes thousands of endangered animals
Nearly 2,000 monitor lizards, hundreds of turtles and 20 snakes were among a huge haul of live endangered animals found hidden in a truck by Thai authorities, a wildlife group said Wednesday.
Sep 14, 2011 |
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Balance is key in after-school activities for adolescents
How much is too much when it comes to after-school activities for adolescents?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 29, 2011 |
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Violence remains in top 10 causes of death
Suicide, child abuse, playground fights, gang violence, sexual assault, and domestic violence are just a few examples of violence that touch people in all walks of life and communities everywhere. Homicide and suicide remain ...
Aug 25, 2011 |
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Gangs don't protect against crime
Gang members are twice as likely to be crime victims than non-gang members and are more frequently subject to simple assault, aggravated assault and drive by shootings, according to a recently study by the Crime Victims' ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 13, 2011 |
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Carbon trading used as money-laundering front: experts
Organised crime gangs are using carbon emissions trading schemes as fronts for money-laundering, experts warned Friday.
Jul 16, 2010 |
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Women, more than men, choose true crime over other violent nonfiction
When it comes to violent nonfiction, men are from Mars, the planet of war, but women are from Earth, the planet of serial killings and random murders.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 16, 2010 |
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Use of Twitter, Facebook rising among gang members
(AP) -- When a gang member was released from jail soon after his arrest for selling methamphetamine, friends and associates assumed he had cut a deal with authorities and become a police informant.
Feb 02, 2010 |
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UK inmates comfortable with diversity
'Ethnicity, Identity and Social Relations in Prison', carried out by Dr. Coretta Philips of the London School of Economics, explored how prisoners' ethnic identities helped them cope with prison life, and whether such identities ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 13, 2010 |
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Invisible immigrants: Research sheds light on foreign-born seniors in the U.S
(PhysOrg.com) -- The nearly 80,000 immigrants older than 65 who arrive in the U.S. each year are often overlooked by society because they don't hold paid jobs or speak fluent English, says UC Irvine sociology ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 19, 2009 |
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'Warrior Gene' Responsible for Gang Membership, Weapon Use
(PhysOrg.com) -- Boys who carry a particular variation of the gene Monoamine oxidase A (MAOA), sometimes called the “warrior gene,” are more likely not only to join gangs but also to be among the most violent ...
Jun 05, 2009 |
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