Understanding the Black Box of Gang Organization

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The Ties That Bind (2014, background): “Although this setting has many advantages (Decker et al., 2008), field-, agency-, and school-based samples should be pursued in future research.”
Disengaging From Gangs and Desistance From Crime (2013, unknown): “82) (Decker et al., 2008).”
Continuity and Change in Gang Membership and Gang Embeddedness (2013, background): “Gang organization was comprised of five dichotomous items—insignia, sharing money, sharing drugs, rules, and punishments—commonly found in the literature on gang organizational structure (Decker et al. 2008).”
‘Going viral’ and ‘Going country’: the expressive and instrumental activities of street gangs on social media (2017, background): “Examples of these descriptions are widespread in the literature (e.g. Decker and Curry 2002; Decker, Katz, and Webb 2008), including UK-based studies of gangs (Aldridge and Medina 2008; Windle and Briggs 2015a).”
Delinquent Gangs and Adolescent Victimization Revisited (2009, background): “The link between gang membership and victimization has been attributed to several factors, including but not limited to gang members’ differential involvement in antisocial lifestyles, the normative culture of gang life, organizational structure of gangs, and differential exposure to delinquent peer”