Sentences with phrase «violent neighborhood of»

Born in a poor and violent neighborhood of Detroit, he was very young when he became passionately interested in intelligent ways to solve conflict without violence.

Not exact matches

Often it is people who live in middle - class or affluent neighborhoods that are relatively free of violent crime who insist on holding a «root - cause» seminar while people are dying in the streets.

Last year during Lent, suicide bombings at two churches in Lahore's Youhanabad neighborhood sparked violent protests from Christians angry at their government's lack of protection.

Like prohibition, criminalization of drugs makes their sale very lucrative — and often dangerous, violent, and destructive of the neighborhoods where business is done.

It is easier for human sin to take the form of a violent shot when you can walk through my neighborhood of North Lawndale on the Westside of Chicago and buy a gun in about 15 minutes.

One of the signal results of toxic - stress exposure is a hyperactive fight - or - flight mechanism, which can be a valuable asset in a violent home or neighborhood but is much less helpful during a seventh - grade history lesson.

Research says children in violent neighborhoods approach friendship cautiously, with the goal of staying safe.

«Animal fighting fuels some of the most violent enterprises that corrupt our neighborhoods, and many people did not know that animal fighting was not eligible for a warrant to conduct electronic surveillance,» Boyle said in a statement.

The troopers will spend much of their time in inner city neighborhoods, which suffer Albany's highest rates of violent crime and also its heaviest levels of policing.

«There's the reality of what you see of what's going up in building and what's going up in development, and the reality of what's going on in these neighborhoods where people feel that crime is in their face, crime has not been address, the violent crime has actually gone up, and I think those are some of the things that are other people's realities.»

WBFO Senior Reporter Eileen Buckley talks with Buffalo News Education Reporter Tiffany Lankes, who for months has been tracking city school children facing the tragic issue of living in violent neighborhoods.

The stereotype - shattering nature of the opioid drug crisis, both in Erie County and nationwide, has not gone unnoticed by activists in the black community who remember when the crack epidemic swept through low - income, urban neighborhoods in the 1980s and early»90s, leading to a spike in violent crime and homicides.

Our black hole's violent meeting with G2 began last year, and as it continues, it should give astronomers a chance to peer inside the galactic center — the neighborhood around the black hole — rather than just simulate the swirling disc of gas and dust surrounding it.

«The children and families I chronicle in «Collateral Damage» have long suffered from the health problems of living in violent neighborhoods,» McDaniels said upon learning she had won the award.

«One theory that resonated with a lot of the things we found points to the importance of busy streets in promoting outdoor activity, interaction and cohesion in communities, which could potentially deter street violence,» said Branas, who has led several previous studies suggesting that urban parks and greening vacant lots encourage people to become invested in maintaining their neighborhoods and may reduce violent crime.

... Born from the rubble of a violent collision, hurled through space for millions of years and dismembered by the gravity of planets, asteroid Bennu had a tough life in a rough neighborhood: the early solar system.

And I don't even mind that Nightcrawler made my beloved neighborhood — a stretch of LA just south of Hollywood that I've dubbed North Koreatown — look like a violent ghetto.

Pickings: A single mother and neighborhood bar owner who spent years trying to escape her violent past is forced to embrace her inner demons and confront her deadly history when a local mobster and his gang of thugs come knocking on her door.

Then Manny and his Zapruderish film turns up, and ex-Philadelphian De Palma turns the city into a house of horrors more violent than anything in ex-Philadephian David Lynch's neighborhood, craning and swooping and whirling his camera all around a world gone seemingly mad.

Kids growing up in poverty are more likely to experience trauma, to live without their fathers, to go home to more violent neighborhoods, and to otherwise face all manner of difficult circumstances that make it more likely that they may misbehave at school.

Ta - Nehisi Coates demonstrated well in a recent interview how a lack of cultural awareness on the part of White teachers can lead to serious consequences for Black students who grow up in violent neighborhoods.

Students at both schools are overwhelmingly African American, and many suffer from the twin traumas of living in poverty and in violent neighborhoods.

The neighborhood has a low median income, high rates of violent crime, and just 6 percent of residents are graduates of a four - year college.

Students who grow up amid economic insecurity often face many obstacles: parents without education, lack of healthy attachments, lag of cognitive stimulation, lack of enrichment activities, violent neighborhoods and lack of access to medical resources.

(A recent analysis of public safety in D.C. found that while the city's violent crime rate has gone down, Deanwood and surrounding neighborhoods have actually experienced an uptick since 2000.)

Our «Goliaths» are the mountains of problems that many inner - city students face — poverty, homelessness, mobility, instability, limited parent involvement, and violent neighborhood surroundings.

These methods to prevent blacks from living in white neighborhoods resulted in the segregation of neighborhoods that have had crippling effects for minorities in the U.S, such as increased poverty, poorer health, and higher exposure to violent crime (Bethea 2013).

Many individuals grow up in homes that are dysfunctional, neighborhoods that are violent, environments that seem to starve their minds, yet somehow they manage to salvage their minds, to discover some ways of learning and succeeding despite biographical odds that are so stacked against them.

A day laborer trolls the streets for work with men half his age and witnesses a murder that pits his morality against his illegal status; a religious hypocrite gets her comeuppance when she meets the Virgin Mary at a bus stop on Sunset Boulevard; a typical bus route turns violent when cultures and egos collide in the night, with devastating results; and Aurora goes on a journey through her gentrified childhood neighborhood in a quest to discover her own history and her place in the land that all Mexican Americans dream of, «the land that belongs to us again.»

As far as violent crime goes, you shouldn't have to worry too much about your safety and the local neighborhoods feature plenty of reasonably priced housing.

Halawani's early works capture the many aspects of this reality, from the tedious moments of attempting to perform daily tasks under the restrictions of military occupation to the cyclical onset of violent siege that transforms Palestinian neighborhoods, towns, and cities into overnight war zones.

To arrive at their theory that trees reduce crime, Donovan and his team poured over two years worth of police reports for property and violent crimes while noting various neighborhood characteristics, including the quality of tree - coverage where each incident occurred using aerial mapping and on - the - ground observations.

With just one annual violent crime per 1,000 residents and 25 property crimes per 1,000 residents, you're in one of the safest neighborhoods in the Bronx.

Parenting, Violence, and Substance Abuse Issues in High - Risk Children and Youth Brohl (2004) In The New Miracle Workers: Overcoming Contemporary Challenges in Child Welfare Work View Abstract Examines risks of harm to children and child welfare workers living and working in violent neighborhoods and provides strategies to help workers stay safe.

There is some concern that the behaviors associated with conduct disorder may potentially be considered «normal» responses in the context of certain highly violent social conditions, for example war - zones (a concern when treating some immigrants) and high - crime urban neighborhoods.

In their sample CU traits were more strongly predictive of violent delinquency in low - income neighborhoods and of instrumental delinquency in high - income neighborhoods.

Third, Meldrum et al. (2015) found the association between sleep problems and delinquency (a latent factor comprised of substance use, non-violent delinquent behaviors, and violent behaviors) to be mediated by low self - control, even after accounting for prior delinquency, neighborhood context, parenting practices, unstructured peer socialization, and depression.

Key takeaways for members included: developing skills to analyze neighborhoods for crime patterns, sex offenders, and other hazards; gaining valuable insight into criminal behavior and the psychology of survival; and acquiring practical skills to detect, deter, and disengage from violent predators.