Youth gang affiliation, violence, and criminal activities: A review of
This paper reviews and critically evaluates diverse research on the nature of youth gangs and the factors that motivate engagement in and desistance from gang-related activities, risk and protective factors associated with gang membership, and explores the adverse consequences associated with gang affiliation, including extensive research on ...
Youth Gangs and Victimization: an Investigation of The Impact of Gang
This paper logically extends gang-informed research on violence and moves beyond causal arguments concerning whether or not membership increases victimization by testing the differential influence of gang dynamics. We use a longitudinal sample of gang-involved youth, their offending and victimization histories, and gang dynamics to specify ...
Gangs and Adolescent Mental Health: a Narrative Review
This paper highlights ways in which research, practice and policy could be extended to minimise the injurious effects of gang culture on adolescent mental health. Keywords: Gangs, Youth, Adolescence, Violence, Recreational drugs. ... There is a long tradition of research into gang culture, but only recently have we started to appreciate the ...
Gangs and social media: A systematic literature review and an
Indeed, many scholars have focused their attention on criminal activities in an attempt to expose a relationship between gangs' use of social media and violence and find that gang members are using social platforms to sell drugs, threaten and harass individuals, post violent videos and download illegal music (Moule et al., 2014; Patton et al., 2013, 2014; Pyrooz et al., 2015).
Gang Homicide: The Road so Far and a Map for the Future
Gang research has spanned nearly a century. In that time, we have learned that gang membership increases the chances of involvement in homicide as a victim or offender. ... The violence that embroils gang life, both instrumental and symbolic, often has consequences. In this paper we review the gang homicide literature covering topics such as ...
(PDF) Youth Gangs: An Overview of Key Findings and ...
definition, youth street gangs can be defined as "any durable, street oriented youth group whose. involvement in illegal activity is part of its group identity" (Klein & Maxson, 2006, p. 4 ...
An evaluator's reflections and lessons learned about gang intervention
Purpose: This paper is designed to critically review and analyze the body of research on a popular gang reduction strategy, implemented widely in the United States and a number of other countries, to: (1) assess whether researchers designed their evaluations to align with the theorized causal mechanisms that bring about reductions in violence; and (2) discuss how evidence on gang programs is ...
Gangs, Methodology and Ethical Protocols: Ethnographic Challenges in
Gangs have been described as an episodic phenomenon comparable across diverse geographical sites, with the US gang stereotype often acting as the archetype. Mirroring this trend, academic researchers have increasingly sought to survey the global topography of gangs through positivist methodologies that seek out universal characteristics of gangs in different cultural contexts. So, research ...
Gang Research in the Twenty-First Century
For nearly a century, gang scholarship has remained foundational to criminological theory and method. Twenty-first-century scholarship continues to refine and, in some cases, supplant long-held axioms about gang formation, organization, and behavior. Recent advances can be traced to shifts in the empirical social reality and conditions within which gangs exist and act. We draw out this ...
Gang Research in the Twenty-First Century
2022. For nearly a century, gang scholarship has remained foundational to criminological theory and method. Twenty-first-century scholarship continues to refine and, in some cases, supplant long-held axioms about gang formation, organization, and behavior. Recent advances can be traced to shifts in the empirical social reality and conditions ...
Street gang theory and research: Where are we now and where do we go
It is a universal given that street gang membership facilitates violent behavior over and above association with offender peers, even prolifically offending peers (Klein, Weerman & Thornberry, 2006). Consequently, the problems street gangs pose to any ordered society are considerable and worthy of research attention.
PDF Advancing Knowledge To Reduce Gangs and Gang Violence: Perspectives
The presentations focused on the research on gangs that NIJ has funded since 2012, information in CrimeSolutions on how . to address gangs and gang violence, a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of a gang intervention program in Denver, and lessons learned in addressing hurdles to rigorous research on a gang prevention program in Philadelphia.
Youth Gangs: Nationwide Impacts of Research on Public Policy
This article examines the public policy benefits of gang research. In particular, the author highlights the benefits of longitudinal research on gang members in several cities and multi-city tracking of gang problems nationwide. Remarkably, the accumulated research led directly to expanded federally sponsored gang research, program development and program evaluations—a clear-cut case in ...
Keeping it real: A signaling theory perspective on authentic claims of
The advent of social media has transformed the landscape of street gang dynamics. Although existing research has documented gang members' use of social media—including identity performance, rival taunting, promoting gang culture, and conflict de-escalation—it often lacks a theoretical foundation and process-oriented view of these digital interactions.
The History of Gangs and Gang Research
Research in the early decades of the 20th century in Chicago reported that adolescent gang members experienced depression, anxiety, personality disorders, and addictions as consequents of violence clashes between Chicago's native white population and European immigrants and black migrants. Over the decades of gang research in America and ...
Research
Research. The NGC maintains an extensive listing of research‐based publications; federal, national, and state reports; statistical analyses; and synthesized information to assist students, educators, researchers, journalists, and anyone else seeking knowledge about gang‐related issues.
Gangs and a global sociological imagination
Around the world, the youth gang phenomenon has become an important and sensitive public issue. In communities from Los Angeles to Rio, Capetown to London, the real and perceived threat from highly visible, street-based groups of young people has come to dominate news headlines, policy guidelines and research agendas.
PDF Gang Prevention: An Overview of Research and Programs
DECEMBER 2010. ention: An Overview of Research and Programsby James C. HowellIntroductionSince the mid-20th century, gang violence in this country has become widespread—all 50 states and the District of Columbia. report gang problems, and reports have in-creased for 5 of the past 7 years. Despite the steady growth in the number and size of ...
PDF Research on Gangs and Gang Violence
3 NIJ-2014-3747. Research on Gangs and Gang Violence FY14. (CFDA No. 16.560) Overview. NIJ is interested in funding multiple criminal justice research projects involving research and/or evaluations of programs to improve our understanding and/or reduce gang membership and violence within the United States.
Gang Prevention: An Overview of Research and Programs
Gang Prevention: An Overview of Research and Programs. Since the mid-20th century, gang violence in this country has become widespread—all 50 states and the District of Columbia report gang problems, and reports have increased for 5 of the past 7 years. Despite the steady growth in the number and size of gangs across the United States and the ...
An Introduction to Gangs and Serious Youth Violence in the United
This article introduces the special issue on UK gangs and youth violence. Written to coincide with the launch of the National Centre for Gang Research at the University of West London, this collection adds the voices of academics who have spent years researching serious violence to a conversation dominated by policymakers and media commentators.
Gang Research at ASU
He describes in great detail the role of delinquent and non-delinquent activities in the lives of the young men and women in the seven gangs he studied. The book occupies an important place in our understanding of youth programming, communities, families and gangs. **Download full book: city-gangs-book.pdf. ** Dowload book by chapter.
Gangs in School: Exploring the Experiences of Gang-Involved Youth
Submit Paper. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice. Impact Factor: 1.5 / 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.6 . Journal Homepage ... Pyrooz D. C., Sweeten G., Moule R. K. Jr. (2014). Validating self-nomination in gang research: Assessing differences in gang embeddedness across non-, current, and former gang members. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 30 ...
Outlaw motorcycle gangs and their members' crime: Examining the social
Prior research has found that members of outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMCGs) are disproportionately involved in serious crimes, such as extortion, weapon- and drug- trafficking, and violence (Blokland, Van der Leest and Soudijn, 2017, 2019; Klement, 2016; Lauchs and Staines, 2019; Morgan et al., 2020).Fear of escalating inter-gang violence between OMCGs has further added to governments' felt ...
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This paper reviews and critically evaluates diverse research on the nature of youth gangs and the factors that motivate engagement in and desistance from gang-related activities, risk and protective factors associated with gang membership, and explores the adverse consequences associated with gang affiliation, including extensive research on ...
This paper logically extends gang-informed research on violence and moves beyond causal arguments concerning whether or not membership increases victimization by testing the differential influence of gang dynamics. We use a longitudinal sample of gang-involved youth, their offending and victimization histories, and gang dynamics to specify ...
This paper highlights ways in which research, practice and policy could be extended to minimise the injurious effects of gang culture on adolescent mental health. Keywords: Gangs, Youth, Adolescence, Violence, Recreational drugs. ... There is a long tradition of research into gang culture, but only recently have we started to appreciate the ...
Indeed, many scholars have focused their attention on criminal activities in an attempt to expose a relationship between gangs' use of social media and violence and find that gang members are using social platforms to sell drugs, threaten and harass individuals, post violent videos and download illegal music (Moule et al., 2014; Patton et al., 2013, 2014; Pyrooz et al., 2015).
Gang research has spanned nearly a century. In that time, we have learned that gang membership increases the chances of involvement in homicide as a victim or offender. ... The violence that embroils gang life, both instrumental and symbolic, often has consequences. In this paper we review the gang homicide literature covering topics such as ...
definition, youth street gangs can be defined as "any durable, street oriented youth group whose. involvement in illegal activity is part of its group identity" (Klein & Maxson, 2006, p. 4 ...
Purpose: This paper is designed to critically review and analyze the body of research on a popular gang reduction strategy, implemented widely in the United States and a number of other countries, to: (1) assess whether researchers designed their evaluations to align with the theorized causal mechanisms that bring about reductions in violence; and (2) discuss how evidence on gang programs is ...
Gangs have been described as an episodic phenomenon comparable across diverse geographical sites, with the US gang stereotype often acting as the archetype. Mirroring this trend, academic researchers have increasingly sought to survey the global topography of gangs through positivist methodologies that seek out universal characteristics of gangs in different cultural contexts. So, research ...
For nearly a century, gang scholarship has remained foundational to criminological theory and method. Twenty-first-century scholarship continues to refine and, in some cases, supplant long-held axioms about gang formation, organization, and behavior. Recent advances can be traced to shifts in the empirical social reality and conditions within which gangs exist and act. We draw out this ...
2022. For nearly a century, gang scholarship has remained foundational to criminological theory and method. Twenty-first-century scholarship continues to refine and, in some cases, supplant long-held axioms about gang formation, organization, and behavior. Recent advances can be traced to shifts in the empirical social reality and conditions ...
It is a universal given that street gang membership facilitates violent behavior over and above association with offender peers, even prolifically offending peers (Klein, Weerman & Thornberry, 2006). Consequently, the problems street gangs pose to any ordered society are considerable and worthy of research attention.
The presentations focused on the research on gangs that NIJ has funded since 2012, information in CrimeSolutions on how . to address gangs and gang violence, a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of a gang intervention program in Denver, and lessons learned in addressing hurdles to rigorous research on a gang prevention program in Philadelphia.
This article examines the public policy benefits of gang research. In particular, the author highlights the benefits of longitudinal research on gang members in several cities and multi-city tracking of gang problems nationwide. Remarkably, the accumulated research led directly to expanded federally sponsored gang research, program development and program evaluations—a clear-cut case in ...
The advent of social media has transformed the landscape of street gang dynamics. Although existing research has documented gang members' use of social media—including identity performance, rival taunting, promoting gang culture, and conflict de-escalation—it often lacks a theoretical foundation and process-oriented view of these digital interactions.
Research in the early decades of the 20th century in Chicago reported that adolescent gang members experienced depression, anxiety, personality disorders, and addictions as consequents of violence clashes between Chicago's native white population and European immigrants and black migrants. Over the decades of gang research in America and ...
Research. The NGC maintains an extensive listing of research‐based publications; federal, national, and state reports; statistical analyses; and synthesized information to assist students, educators, researchers, journalists, and anyone else seeking knowledge about gang‐related issues.
Around the world, the youth gang phenomenon has become an important and sensitive public issue. In communities from Los Angeles to Rio, Capetown to London, the real and perceived threat from highly visible, street-based groups of young people has come to dominate news headlines, policy guidelines and research agendas.
DECEMBER 2010. ention: An Overview of Research and Programsby James C. HowellIntroductionSince the mid-20th century, gang violence in this country has become widespread—all 50 states and the District of Columbia. report gang problems, and reports have in-creased for 5 of the past 7 years. Despite the steady growth in the number and size of ...
3 NIJ-2014-3747. Research on Gangs and Gang Violence FY14. (CFDA No. 16.560) Overview. NIJ is interested in funding multiple criminal justice research projects involving research and/or evaluations of programs to improve our understanding and/or reduce gang membership and violence within the United States.
Gang Prevention: An Overview of Research and Programs. Since the mid-20th century, gang violence in this country has become widespread—all 50 states and the District of Columbia report gang problems, and reports have increased for 5 of the past 7 years. Despite the steady growth in the number and size of gangs across the United States and the ...
This article introduces the special issue on UK gangs and youth violence. Written to coincide with the launch of the National Centre for Gang Research at the University of West London, this collection adds the voices of academics who have spent years researching serious violence to a conversation dominated by policymakers and media commentators.
He describes in great detail the role of delinquent and non-delinquent activities in the lives of the young men and women in the seven gangs he studied. The book occupies an important place in our understanding of youth programming, communities, families and gangs. **Download full book: city-gangs-book.pdf. ** Dowload book by chapter.
Submit Paper. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice. Impact Factor: 1.5 / 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.6 . Journal Homepage ... Pyrooz D. C., Sweeten G., Moule R. K. Jr. (2014). Validating self-nomination in gang research: Assessing differences in gang embeddedness across non-, current, and former gang members. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 30 ...
Prior research has found that members of outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMCGs) are disproportionately involved in serious crimes, such as extortion, weapon- and drug- trafficking, and violence (Blokland, Van der Leest and Soudijn, 2017, 2019; Klement, 2016; Lauchs and Staines, 2019; Morgan et al., 2020).Fear of escalating inter-gang violence between OMCGs has further added to governments' felt ...