To reveal how membership in adolescent street gangs influences human development, the authors examine the origins of gang membership and the social and psychological factors that lead to joining. After demonstrating that gang members are responsible for the major share of serious and violent delinquency, they indicate how membership facilitates delinquent behavior and other developmental problems such as teen pregnancy and school dropout.
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This book examines how membership in adolescent street gangs influences human development. The authors first examine the origins of gang membership and the social and psychological factors that lead some youth to join a gang. They then show that gang members are responsible for the lion's share of serious and violent delinquency and that it is gang membership itself that facilitates these behaviors. Finally, they demonstrate that gang membership increases the chances of dropping out of school, becoming a teen parent, and other developmental problems.
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SINCE THE EARLIEST DAYS of gang research, such as the classic study of 1,313 gangs in Chicago conducted by Thrasher (1927), scholars have noted the disproportionate contribution that gang members make to the level of crime in society. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
stable gang members, traditional gang cities, gang membership status, use combines data, current gang member, past gang member, active gang membership, emergent gang cities, delinquent social networks, highly delinquent peers, precocious transitions, gang membership increases, delinquency indices, general delinquency, delinquent beliefs, family sociodemographic characteristics, gang programming, illegal gun carrying, adolescent gang membership, neighborhood drug use, relationship between gang membership, disorderly transitions, strong facilitation effect, protection gun ownership, risk factors for gang membership Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African American, Males Only, Matched Number of Nonmembers, Rochester Youth Development Study, New York, Los Angeles, Quartile Measure, Summary Overall, United States, College Aspirations, Community Arrest Rate, Denver Youth Survey, Family Transitions, Parental Involvement, Poverty Level Income, Seattle Social Development Project, Total Panel, Delinquent Acts General, Rochester Police Department, Subject's College Expectations, Gender Male, Parent Report, Report of Child Maltreatment, School Association, School Factors Commitment New!
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SINCE THE EARLIEST DAYS of gang research, such as the classic study of 1,313 gangs in Chicago conducted by Thrasher (1927), scholars have noted the disproportionate contribution that gang members make to the level of crime in society. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
stable gang members, traditional gang cities, gang membership status, use combines data, current gang member, past gang member, active gang membership, emergent gang cities, delinquent social networks, highly delinquent peers, precocious transitions, gang membership increases, delinquency indices, general delinquency, delinquent beliefs, family sociodemographic characteristics, gang programming, illegal gun carrying, adolescent gang membership, neighborhood drug use, relationship between gang membership, disorderly transitions, strong facilitation effect, protection gun ownership, risk factors for gang membership Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African American, Males Only, Matched Number of Nonmembers, Rochester Youth Development Study, New York, Los Angeles, Quartile Measure, Summary Overall, United States, College Aspirations, Community Arrest Rate, Denver Youth Survey, Family Transitions, Parental Involvement, Poverty Level Income, Seattle Social Development Project, Total Panel, Delinquent Acts General, Rochester Police Department, Subject's College Expectations, Gender Male, Parent Report, Report of Child Maltreatment, School Association, School Factors Commitment New!
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- Gangs in America by Ronald Huff on 7 pages
- Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders: Risk Factors and Successful Interventions by Rolf Loeber in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Modern Gang Reader by Cheryl L. Maxson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Social Problems (10th Edition) (MySocKit Series) by D. Stanley Eitzen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Crime and Justice, Volume 27: A Review of Research (Crime and Justice: A Review of Research) by Michael Tonry in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Race and Policing in America: Conflict and Reform (Cambridge Studies in Criminology) by Ronald Weitzer in Back Matter
- Understanding Crime Statistics: Revisiting the Divergence of the NCVS and the UCR (Cambridge Studies in Criminology) by James P. Lynch in Front Matter
- The Virtual Prison: Community Custody and the Evolution of Imprisonment (Cambridge Studies in Criminology) by Julian V. Roberts in Front Matter
- Choosing White-Collar Crime (Cambridge Studies in Criminology) by Neal Shover in Front Matter
- Race and Policing in America: Conflict and Reform (Cambridge Studies in Criminology) by Ronald Weitzer in Back Matter
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