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Homeboys, dope fiends, legits, and new jacks*
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The authors found that most young male adult gang members cannot be described accurately as committed long-term participants in the drug economy, rather, most adult gang member are involved sporadically with drug sales, moving in and out of conventional labor markets at irregular intervals.Abstract:
Milwaukee research finds that most young male adult gang members cannot be described accurately as “committed long-term participants” in the drug economy. Rather, most adult gang members are involved sporadically with drug sales, moving in and out of conventional labor markets at irregular intervals. Four types of male adult gang members are described; only one type has rejected conventional values. Despite relatively high average earnings from drug sales, most gang members would accept full-time jobs with modest wages. This suggests that severe and mandatory penalties for cocaine use and sales should be ended.read more
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Why Do so Many Young American Men Commit Crimes and What Might We Do About it
TL;DR: This paper showed that participation in crime and involvement with the criminal justice system has reached extraordinary levels among young men and that the depressed labor market for low skill American workers contributed to continued high level of crime by less educated men, despite incapacitation and the deterrent effect of imprisonment.
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The economics of crime
TL;DR: The economics of crime focuses on the effect of incentives on criminal behavior, the way decisions interact in a market setting; and the use of a benefit-cost framework to assess alternative strategies to reduce crime.
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Why Do So Many Young American Men Commit Crimes and What Might We Do About It
TL;DR: This paper showed that participation in crime and involvement with the criminal justice system has reached extraordinary levels among young men and that the depressed labor market for low-skill American workers contributed to the continued high level of crime by less-educated men, despite incapacitation and the deterrent effect of imprisonment.
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Childhood Risk Factors for Adolescent Gang Membership: Results from the Seattle Social Development Project:
TL;DR: The authors used longitudinal data to predict gang membership in adolescence from factors measured in childhood, such as neighborhood, family, school, peer, and individual factors significantly predicted joining a gang in adolescence.
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An economic analysis of a drug-selling gang's finances
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the financial activities of a drug-selling street gang on a monthly basis over a four-year period in the recent past and estimated the average wage in the organization to rise from roughly $6 per hour to $11 per hour over the time period studied.
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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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Competition and the Structure of Industrial Society: Reply to Braithwaite
TL;DR: For example, the authors considers the possibilities that republican capitalism and republican socialism, ideologies that value citizenship, are culturally resistant o white-collar crime and suggests that cultural commitments to being a good citizen of the game that matter, whether the game is competition in a free market, successful completion of centrally planned objectives, or the attainment of goals agreed on from below in an industrial democracy.
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Taking Care of Business—The Heroin User's Life on the Street
Edward Preble,John J. Casey +1 more
TL;DR: Taking Care of Business: The Heroin User's Life on the Street as mentioned in this paper is a book about taking care of business in a business environment, with a focus on the business aspect.