The purpose of this graduate project is to create a program to work with at-risk, male Latinos, 12-17 years old, with low socioeconomic status, who have been arrested for tagging, living within the Los Angeles City limits in California. The program ai . . .

The street gang problem in Kern County most certainly affects all residents; making criminal street gang activity a public problem. In Bakersfield, the statistics show that gang related gun violence is burdening society with devastating social and fi . . .

Proposition 36 (2000 General Election) was passed by California voters on November 7, 2000. The proposition is also known as the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000 (SACPA). The significance of the Act is to save the tax payer’s dollars b . . .

California's Three Strikes law was approved by many states in the beginning of the late 1970s, and is known as one of the most striking examples of the increase of mandatory sentencing policies. While supporters and opponents predicted that the law wo . . .

Neighborhood Watch is a crime prevention program that several law enforcement agencies have implemented, which focuses on educating and informing the community on how to discourage, deter, and prevent several different property crimes from occurring, . . .

Since 1994, California‟s three strikes law has been the most far-reaching of all the three strikes laws in the nation. While designed to incapacitate and deter violent habitual offenders from committing further violent crimes, the breadth of the law h . . .