L. Thomas Winfree

TL;DR: The empirical status of social learning theory in its entirety is still unknown as discussed by the authors, although a large body of empirical literature has emerged testing various propositions specified by the theory, the empirical status in its entire body of work has been subject to a metaanalysis to assess its empirical status.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors utilize a sample of approximately 6,000 middle-school students to examine the youth gang phenomenon using five increasingly restrictive membership definitions, the least restrictive definition includes all youth who claim gang membership at some point in time, and the most restrictive definition only those youth who are current core gang members who indicate that their gang has some degree of organizational structure and whose members are involved in illegal activities.

TL;DR: The authors explored ties between social support mechanisms and reported rules infractions of a nationally representative sample of male and female state prison inmates, and found that female inmates experienced more social support than did their male counterparts.

TL;DR: In this paper, a growing body of literature examining gang girls and the involvement of girls in violence has appeared, and the authors contribute to this developing literature by usin the article.