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The case of Ana Maria Gonzalez-Angulo, a woman who was convicted of poisoning her lover George Blumenchein, demonstrates how crime is intertwined with gender roles. While men’s violent crimes are often connected with money, women’s violent crimes are usually aimed at people who reside in their domestic sphere. Gonzalez-Angulo’s crime fits this pattern. She did not poison her former lover for want of money, but instead appears to have assaulted him in anger as she had recently learned that Blumenchein would not be leaving his live-in girlfriend for her. Her all encompassing anger was at least partially fueled by her failure to meet cultural dictates for marriage and children. Despite widespread changes, marriage to a successful male is the culminating event in a whole host of cultural narratives, and Gonzalez-Angulo could not have escaped the pressure to achieve this goal.
Sociologists
have been probing the influence of parents and peer groups on young adolescents
for ages. While the parents play a crucial role in meeting the basic needs along with education and healthcare, peer groups provide the necessary
emotional support in sharing their views and interests and acts as stress
busters. When probed whether parental support or the peer group influence that
shape the personalities of the young adolescents, a significant co-relation
between the parental bond and attachment rather than the peer group pressure
that shapes the mental and behavioral frames of the young adolescents.
Empirical research on developmental theories of crime first
informed us that increase in social capital such as quality marriages, jobs orfirst time fatherhood would lead toward desistance, except among men who were
substance abusers. However, the men in this notable work by Robert Sampson and
John Laub were based on a cohort who came of age during World War two.
While
this seemed disheartening for those of us who hoped for social policies that
might facilitate such attachment policies, at least in the United States where the incarceration mania continued until recently. Now new re-entry policies
have begun to lead to de-carceration movements around the country. While this
is laudable, job creation and treatment programs also must be created to
facilitate successful re-entry. The neighborhoods some of these form felons may
not increase but rather decrease their social capital.
primary schools in
Pakistan administrative Kashmir, a part of former princely state called Azad
Jammu and Kashmir. For this purpose a significant assessment of on hand literature was passed out. On the basis of deeper and critical investigation of
literature, the study found that most neglected level of education is primary
education which is poorly financed and poorly managed. The political
interference in the system breeds corruption, favoritism and nepotism.
