ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND YOUTH GANG MEMBERSHIP: SELECTION AND SOCIALIZATION

By R. Gordon, Benjamin B. Lahey, Eriko Kawai, R. Loeber, M. Stouthamer-Loeber, David P. Farrington. 2004

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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1. D. Pyrooz
2. Scott H. Decker
3. C. Melde
4. M. Delisi
5. C. Gibson
6. F. Esbensen
7. Kevin M. Beaver
8. J. C. Barnes

Citations in the corpus

• Assessing the Validity of Self-Reports by Gang Members: Results From the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program (2006, background): “The possibility of differences in these populations has implications for gang research that relies on the self-report method, including major studies such as the Rochester youth survey (Thornberry et al., 1993), the Seattle social development project (Battin, Hill, Abbott, Catalano, & Hawkins, 1998)”
• Delinquent youth groups and offending behaviour: findings from the 2004 Offending Crime and Justice Survey (2006, background): “Most significantly, longitudinal studies suggest that the degree of criminal participation among young people increases after they join gangs and decreases once they leave the gang (Thornberry et al., 2003; Gordon et al., 2004).”
• What Do We Know About Gangs and Gang Members and Where Do We Go From Here? (2013, methodology): “Members of street gangs are consistently found to be at the nexus of serious crime and violence, with members displaying disproportionate rates of involvement in numerous criminal acts, including gun and weapon possession (Bjerregaard & Lizotte, 1995; Melde, Esbensen, & Taylor, 2009; Watkins, Huebne”
• Gang Membership and Adherence to the “Code of the Street” (2013, background): “…often facilitates or enhances the delinquent behavior of its members, once they join (Esbensen & Huizinga, 1993; Gatti, Trembley, & Vitaro, 2005; Gordon et al., 2004; Lacourse, Nagin, Tremblay, Frank Vitaro, & Clares, 2003; Thornberry et al., 2003; Thornberry, Krohn, Lizotte, & Chard-Wierschem,…”
• Delinquent Gangs and Adolescent Victimization Revisited (2009, methodology): “associated with gang membership (Bell, in press; Decker & Curry, 2000; Esbensen & Deschenes, 1998; Gordon et al., 2004 ).”
• Conduct Disorder, Aggression and Delinquency (2009, background): “Gordon et al. (2004) reported not only a substantial increase in drug selling, drug use, violence, and property crime after a boy joined a gang. but also that the frequency of offending decreased to pregang levels after a boy left a gang.”
• Estimating the Causal Effect of Social Capital: A Review of Recent Research (2006, background): “F or p er so na l u se o nl y. CAUSAL EFFECTS OF SOCIAL CAPITAL 91 Gordon et al. (2004) use longitudinal data on gang membership and delinquent behavior and find strong effects of gang membership on self-reported behavior of adolescents using fixed effects models.”
• Gang Membership, Gun Carrying, and Employment: Applying Routine Activities Theory to Explain Violent Victimization Among Inner City, Minority Youth Living in Extreme Poverty* (2008, background): “Other studies have found that gang members participate in both the drug market as sellers and in violent fights with rival gangs (Fagan, 1989; Gordon et al., 2004; Rosenfeld, Bray, & Egley, 1999).”