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A multisite examination of youth gang membership: does gender matter?*
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In this article, the authors describe gang membership in a general survey of eighth-grade students in a cross section of the United States and examine differences between boys' and girls' attitudes associated with gang membership.Abstract:
The nature and extent of female involvement in gangs has been a relatively neglected area of criminological inquiry. Even more rare have been investigations of explanations of female gang participation. This neglect can be attributed, in large part, to a perception that the phenomenon is statistically rare and the behavior substantively unimportant. Our objectives in this research are twofold: to describe gang membership in a general survey of eighth-grade students in a cross section of the United States and to examine differences between boys' and girls' attitudes associated with gang membershipread more
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Youth Gangs and Definitional Issues: When is a Gang a Gang, and Why Does it Matter?
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Protective Functions of Family Relationships and School Factors on the Deviant Behavior of Adolescent Boys and Girls: Reducing the Impact of Risky Friendships.
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Moving Risk Factors into Developmental Theories of Gang Membership
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Differences between Gang Girls and Gang Boys: Results from a Multisite Survey
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Digital Piracy: Assessing the Contributions of an Integrated Self‐Control Theory and Social Learning Theory Using Structural Equation Modeling
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Testing the Core Empirical Implications of Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory of Crime:
TL;DR: In this article, a factor analysis of items designed to measure low self-control is consistent with their contention that the trait is unidimensional and the proposed interaction effect is found for self-reported acts of both fraud and force (their definition of crime).
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Lower Class Culture As a Generating Milieu of Gang Delinquency
TL;DR: The major sets of etiological factors adduced to explain gang delinquency are, in simplified terms, the physiological, the psychodynamic, and the environmental factors as discussed by the authors, which are the factors which exert the most direct influence on behavior.
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Are there multiple paths to delinquency
TL;DR: Huizinga et al. as mentioned in this paper conducted a longitudinal study on the causes and correlates of delinquency, drug use, and other social problems in the United States and found that delinquency is the result of a series of events common to all delinquents.
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The Role of Juvenile Gangs in Facilitating Delinquent Behavior
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined alternative explanations for why gang members are more likely to have higher rates of serious and violent crime than nongang members, and they found that gang members did not have high rates of delinquent behavior or drug use before entering the gang, but once they became members, their rates increased substantially.
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Life in the Gang: Family, Friends, and Violence
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the relation between gang members and social institutions, focusing on the following: 1. "I love to bang": serious crime by gang members 2. 'Are you claiming?': methods of study 3. 'I'm down with the Bloods, what's up cuz?': individual issues 4. 'We ain't no worldwide thing or nothing': group membership issues 5. 'Where you hanging?': minor crime and gang members 6. 'They love tobang': serious crime and social institution 8. Gang members and their