Almighty Latin Kings and Queens Nation Sociology Discussion

November 28, 2022

Almighty Latin Kings and Queens Nation Sociology Discussion

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Almighty Latin Kings and Queens Nation Sociology Discussion

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Assignment One

8 Points

Deposit your answers to the correct Assignments Link.

Read the following scenario and answer the questions

Luis Francisco is the leader of the Almighty Latin Kings and Queens Nation. He was convicted of murder in 1998 and sentenced to life imprisonment plus forty-five years. Luis Francisco’s life has been filled with displacement, poverty, and chronic predatory delinquency. The son of a prostitute in Havana, at the age of nine he was sent to prison for robbery.

He had trouble in school, and teachers described him as having attention problems; he dropped out in the seventh grade. On his nineteenth birthday in 1980, he emigrated to the United States and soon became a gang member in Chicago, joining the Latin Kings.

After moving to the Bronx, he shot and killed his girlfriend in 1981. He fled to Chicago and was not apprehended until 1984. Sentenced to nine years for second degree manslaughter, Luis Francisco ended up in a New York prison, where he started a prison chapter of the Latin Kings. As King Blood, Inka, First Supreme Crown, Francisco ruled the two thousand Latin Kings in and out of prison. Disciplinary troubles erupted when some Kings were found stealing from the organization.

Infuriated, King Blood wrote to his street lieutenants and ordered their termination. Federal authorities, who had been monitoring Francisco’s mail, arrested thirty-five Latin Kings. The other thirty-four pled guilty; only Francisco insisted on a trial, where he was fund guilty of conspiracy to commit murder.

Questions

Summarize the three developmental theories: a)life-course theory, b)latent-trait theory, and c)trajectory theory.

Identify and explain the life-course concepts that help define the life course view.

Using the above Life-course concepts, explain Luis’s behavior patterns.

How would a latent trait theorist explain his escalating delinquent activities?

Assignment Two

6 PointsRead the following scenario, answer the following questions and post your responses to the Assignments Link.You are the governor of your state. In 1991, when Steven B. was a 16 -year- old high school wrestler, he and a teammate raped and severely beat a young girl who asked them for a ride home from a party. Though never in serious trouble before the attack, Steven was involved in an ongoing pattern of school misbehavior, substance abuses, and pety scrapes with the law. Those who knew him recognized that he had a short attention span and poor study habits, and he seemed to be impulsive and lacking in self-control.

There were allegations that he was sexually aggressive and tried to force himself on young girls, but no formal charges were ever made. While out on bail, Steven escaped to Europe with the help of his wealthy parents. After wandering the continent for two years, he settled in a small French town. There, Steve, now known as “Paul”, established a thriving wine shop, became a respected community member, married a local woman, and fathered tow children. He even served on the town council. However, after more than a decade abroad, Steven’s true identity became known when he was involved in a minor traffic accident.

After some negotiation, French authorities turned him over to American authorities, and he has been returned home to face the outstanding charges. Steven now asks that you pardon him so he can return to his home and family. He argues that his friend, who was convicted of rape and served time in prison, was the one who actually attacked the girl.

Steven claims he merely held her down and prevented her from escaping; his friend substantiates the story. He now realizes he was wrong, but he points out that he has liven an exemplary life for the last 10 years, that his family needs him, and that he poses no danger to society. He has offered to apologize to the victim and make financial restitution before returning to France.

Questions

Pick a specific life course or latent trait theory from chapter 5 – either a)age-graded or b)general theory of crime – that you think best explains Steven’s behavior.

Identify, explain the theory and state why you think it fits.

Do you believe that Steven is unlikely to commit another violent act as an adult, even though he did so as a juvenile? Why? Or why not?

Is it possible, now that Steven is an adult, that his impulsive personality has moderated and he has regained that ability to control his own behavior?

Or do you believe that behavior patterns originating in childhood, such as lack of self-control, persist into adulthood?

Should the justice system distinguish between a young offender who commits a single act of violence and a chronic offender who is repeatedly involved in criminal acts? This is your opinion.

Assignment Three

5 PointsDeposit your answers in the correct Assignments Link.Go to these websites for more information.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Harris_and_Dylan_Klebold http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/kinkel/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurston_High_School_shootingRead the following scenario and answer the following questions.The most violent school event of the century took place on April 20,1999, when two students, Eric Harris,18, and Dylan Klebold,17, shot and killed 12 students and a teacher and seriously wounded 22 others at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. In addition to the shootings, their murderous rampage involved planting 50 homemade bombs in different locations in the school in a planned effort to blow up the entire school in a blaze of fire. When they were finished killing and wounding their fellow students they committed suicide. There is limited evidence of a dysfunctional family background, and the families were not criminogenic. For example, the parents of Kip Kinkel were both respected high school teachers, and none of the other parents manifested severe family problems. With the exception of some minor issues regarding school disciplinary action, none of the killers had a prior record of severe delinquency. Most of them seemed to experience some form of alienation or separation from their high school classmates.

Questions

Using what you have learned so far,

which theories would best explain this action? (Use chapters 3,4,or 5).

Pick two theories.

Identify, explain and justify the theories you have chosen including the chapter(s) from which you choose your theories.

Assignment Four

10 PointsDeposit your answers to the correct Assignments Link.This is a summary assignment based on information from any of the chapters you have read so far.Go to this websitePBS FrontlineRead all the information found at this site, than answer the following questions.Questions

After reading the information on this website, what would you say are the best predictors of violence in children?

Juvenile delinquents are considered less responsible for their behavior than adult offenders and therefore considered less culpable. In the administration of justice, the emphasis is more on the youth’s personality and the motivation for the illegal act than the offense itself, emphasis is more on

treatment and rehabilitation than on punishment.

How was this exemplified in each of the cases?

If you had been the judge would your dispositions been different in each of the four cases? How or how not?

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What would have been your reasoning?

Pick one case, describe it and apply a theory or theories that you think best explain it. Give your reasoning.

Click on the tab at the top right of the page titled: Facts and Statistics.

Look at Child or Adult? A Century Long View as well as Juvenile Verses Adult Justice. Summarize what you find in the two areas.

At the bottom of the page, click on: From Both Sides of the Bench.

Choose two items, identify and summarize them.

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