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 ...

We examined condom attitudes, perceived vulnerability to HIV, HIV testing experiences, and sexual and substance use risk behaviors of 161 active Latino male gang members, aged 18-26 years old, living in Los Angeles, California. Gang members reported negative condom attitudes and a perceived vulnerability to HIV. The majority (53%) of gang members reported unprotected vaginal intercourse (UVI) i...

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...

Unique within the recent history of environmental hazards, eastern Ukraine illustrates dangers arising from conflict in an urban landscape heavily modified by human action (including coal extraction and nuclear testing) requiring active management. To analyze these dynamics their implications, we examine industrialization Donbas region warfare-accelerated risks. Using primary data ethnographic ...

This thesis will assess influential guerrilla doctrine advising optimal insurgent (1) operational environment, (2) organizational structure, (3) logistical capacity, and (4) dependent tactics items of consistent, yet incomplete analysis in counter-insurgency (COIN) analytics and civil war scholarship. Following a review of five of the most infamously disseminated guerrilla doctrine and training...

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 ...

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...

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several other experimental systems [13, 39, 4, 17, 6]. At first blush, it might appear that gang scheduling is a luxury that may not be worth the price. An optimal packing of gangs that gives minimal wasted processors is an NPcomplete problem. Migration of gangs might be required to compensate for a poor initial mapping. The code to simultaneously schedule all the threads of each gang might be ...