What Do We Know About Gangs and Gang Members and Where Do We Go From Here?

By Scott H. Decker, C. Melde, D. Pyrooz. 2013

255 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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In Sociology and Political Science

1. Scott H. Decker
2. D. Pyrooz
3. J. Turanovic
4. Jun Wu
5. M. Hogg
6. Howard Giles
7. Liran Goldman
8. D. van Knippenberg

Citations in the corpus

• Taking Stock of the Relationship Between Gang Membership and Offending (2016, background): “Recent commentary on this topic (Decker et al., 2013; MedinaAriza et al., 2014) debated the adequacy of contemporaneous and prospective models of offending in longitudinal studies, expressing concern about the extent to which offending actually overlaps with short-term gang membership.”
• Going to extremes: Social identity and communication processes associated with gang membership (2014, background): “What We Do Know About Gang Membership Individual, social interactive, and wider environmental factors all have the potential to influence the decision to join a gang (Curry, Decker, & Pyrooz, 2013; Decker et al., 2013; Wood & Alleyne, 2010).”