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Street Gang Patterns and Policies
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Cultural Mechanisms and the Persistence of Neighborhood Violence
TL;DR: The authors find that legal cynicism explains why homicide persisted in certain Chicago neighborhoods during the 1990s despite declines in poverty and declines in violence citywide.
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Murder by structure: Dominance relations and the social structure of gang homicide.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that gang murder is best understood not by searching for individual determinants but by examining the social networks of action and reaction that create it, and they define the social structure of gang murder as defined by the manner in which social networks are constructed and by people's placement in them.
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The Corner and the Crew: The Influence of Geography and Social Networks on Gang Violence
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how neighborhood properties influence a host of phenomena such as crime, poverty, health, civic engagement, immigration, and economic inequality, and show that neighborhood properties can influence these phenomena.
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The Ties That Bind Desistance From Gangs
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conceptualized gang membership in a life-course framework and examined the social and emotional ties that former gang members maintain with their previous gang network, finding that ties have direct positive effects on recent victimizations.
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Continuity and Change in Gang Membership and Gang Embeddedness
TL;DR: The authors explored the relationship between embeddedness in a gang, a type of deviant network, and desistance from gang membership over a five-year period from 226 adjudicated youth reporting gang membership at the baseline interview.
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Cultural Mechanisms and the Persistence of Neighborhood Violence
TL;DR: The authors find that legal cynicism explains why homicide persisted in certain Chicago neighborhoods during the 1990s despite declines in poverty and declines in violence citywide.
Journal ArticleDOI
Murder by structure: Dominance relations and the social structure of gang homicide.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that gang murder is best understood not by searching for individual determinants but by examining the social networks of action and reaction that create it, and they define the social structure of gang murder as defined by the manner in which social networks are constructed and by people's placement in them.
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The Ties That Bind Desistance From Gangs
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conceptualized gang membership in a life-course framework and examined the social and emotional ties that former gang members maintain with their previous gang network, finding that ties have direct positive effects on recent victimizations.
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Continuity and Change in Gang Membership and Gang Embeddedness
TL;DR: The authors explored the relationship between embeddedness in a gang, a type of deviant network, and desistance from gang membership over a five-year period from 226 adjudicated youth reporting gang membership at the baseline interview.
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What Do We Know About Gangs and Gang Members and Where Do We Go From Here
TL;DR: There has been a dramatic increase in research on gang, gang members, and gang behavior since the early 1990s, making this review especially timely as discussed by the authors, which provides an opportunity to assess the current state of gang research and suggest directions for its future.