Gang affiliates have joined the masses who use social media to share thoughts and actions publicly. Interestingly, they use this public medium to express recent illegal actions, to intimidate others, and to share outrageous images and statements. Agencies able to unearth these profiles may thus be able to anticipate, stop, or hasten the investigation of gang-related crimes. This paper investiga...

This research focuses on young Mexican American girls who are not formal gang members yet participate in street-based activities of male gangs and engage in risk behaviors. These females comprise a larger proportion associated with male gangs in inner-city neighborhoods than actual female gang members. Using a qualitative design, the article presents a typology of Mexican American females that ...

Each year the national percentage of juvenile gang members decreases, while the number of gang related crimes has risen in Tennessee. Nearly 50% of gang members are currently under the age of 18. Adjudication of juvenile gang related cases is determined by the presiding judge’s discretion, but with the passing of House Bill 227 and Senate Bill 339 the offender would be automatically transferred...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the effects on homicide rates of the gang truce that was brokered in El Salvador in 2012. METHODS Mathematical models based on municipal-level census, crime and gang-intelligence data were used to estimate the effect of the truce on homicide rates. One model estimated the overall effect after accounting for the linear trend and seasonality in the homicide rate. In a mode...

T.N.Ravi, Dr. D.I. George Amalarethinam, & Dr. R. Balasubramanian Abstract Effective scheduling strategies to improve response times, throughput and utilization are important considerations in large scale computing environments. The nearly Space Sharing strategies resulted in low system utilization and large job waiting times. Gang scheduling combines both space sharing and time sharing. This p...

This paper considers representations of the so-called ‘gang of 49’ which appeared in the mainstream news in Australia from late 2007. In particular, it focuses on how Indigenous masculinity is associated with discourses of criminal behavior, delinquency, violence, and aggression within this media coverage. In examining these gendered discourses of violence, the paper also considers the ways in ...

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We investigate the use of runtime measurements to improve job scheduling on a parallel machine. Emphasis is on gang scheduling based strategies. With the information gathered at runtime, we deene a task classiication scheme based on fuzzy logic and Bayesian estimators. The resulting local task classiication is used to provide better service to I/O bound and interactive jobs under gang schedulin...

Long-form film criticism is not as hopelessly moribund some observers contend. Serious general-interest publications still contain serious articles by reviewers and essayists; home-video...