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This ethnography of a gang war in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Oakwood, just blocks from the famed Venice Beach boardwalk, provides a rare eyewitness account of the urban violence pervasive in the recent history of the United States. With seventeen people killed and more than fifty injured, the hostilities over ten months in 1993 and 1994 marked the peak of gang violence in the history of Los Angeles, a city once labeled the "gang capital of the nation." The conflict began as a quarrel among individuals, some of whom had gang affiliations. Over time, the feud engulfed families and soon grew into a sustained clash between African American and Latino gangs. Eventually, victims fell who were not members of opposing gangs, but who fit certain racial and gender profiles. The conflict began to take on the attributes of what one local newspaper sensationalized as a "race war."

Karen Umemoto lived nearby during this conflict and undertook two years of ethnographic research during and immediately following the spate of killings. She now offers a nuanced analysis of the trajectory and eventual end of this acute crisis. Her interviews with gang members, neighborhood residents, business leaders, police officers, and gang-intervention workers reveal the complexity of contemporary American urban conflict. The Truce highlights the differences in interpretations among combatants, witnesses, and law enforcement agents and others whose actions often had unintended consequences. Drawing on her experience living in multicultural Los Angeles and on the latest scholarship in a wide variety of disciplines, Umemoto provides much-needed guidance for policymakers and concerned members of the public faced with violence in an ever-changing urban landscape..
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This digital document is an article from ASEAN Economic Bulletin, published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) on December 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1086 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Regional Integration and Economic Development.(Book Review)
Author: Masaru Umemoto
Publication:ASEAN Economic Bulletin (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2002
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)
Volume: 19 Issue: 3 Page: 355(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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This digital document is a journal article from Reliability Engineering and System Safety, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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In order to facilitate a number of calculations needed to quantify effectiveness of off-site protective actions for various emergency scenarios for emergency planning of nuclear facilities, we developed a simplified simulation method for selecting the most effective protective action among candidates of action. The protective actions considered are sheltering in houses, sheltering in public concrete building, evacuation, and iodine prophylaxis. The method has functions of (1) simulating the movement of members of the public under protective actions and calculating avertable dose by protective actions in short computing time, and (2) selecting the most effective protective action for divided areas around a nuclear site. To achieve short computing time in function (1), we applied a multivariate analysis method by using sample data obtained from results calculated with a program for simulating the movement of members of the public under protective actions with a detailed mathematical model that requires long computing time. As to function (2), we focused on net benefit, namely avertable dose minus an intervention level, of a protective action. Intervention levels used are those that IAEA proposed based on justification and optimization of protective actions by taking account of benefit and disadvantage due to protective actions. Analysis results by the simplified simulation method showed good agreement with those by the detailed simulation program. Application of the simplified method to a model nuclear site demonstrated that the method was useful as it provided the most effective protective action area depending on source terms, meteorological conditions, and so on. .
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