Social Development Models of Gang Involvement (eBook, ePUB)

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Redaktion: Krohn, Marvin D.; Howell, James C.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book includes original research on issues related to gang membership, its causes, its consequences, and intervention efforts to reduce its effects. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Crime and Justice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351027083
• Artikelnr.: 60456125

Autorenporträt

Marvin D. Krohn is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law at the University of Florida, Gainsville, USA. He is primarily interested in developmental and life-course approaches to the explanation of delinquency, drug use, and crime. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology. James C. Howell is a Senior Research Associate with the National Gang Center, Tallahassee, USA. He is author of The History of Street Gangs in the United States (2015), and a textbook, Gangs in America's Communities (2019). His numerous other works on youth gangs include a developmental theory of gang involvement.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Exploring intergenerational continuity in gang membership
2. Developmental pathways of youth gang membership: a structural test of
the social development model 3. Differentiating between delinquent groups
and gangs: moving beyond offending consequences 4. School transitions as a
turning point for gang status 5. Leveraging the pushes and pulls of gang
disengagement to improve gang intervention: findings from three multi-site
studies and a review of relevant gang programs 6. Toward a multiracial
feminist framework for understanding females' gang involvement 7. The
practical utility of a life-course gang theory for intervention 8. The
labor market and gang membership in adulthood: is the availability,
quality, and nature of legal work associated with adult gang involvement?