Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective

Klappentext This book examines how membership in adolescent street gangs influences human development. Zusammenfassung This book examines how membership in adolescent street gangs influences human development. The authors examine the origins of gang membership and the social and psychological factors that lead some youths to join a gang. They show that gang membership increases the chances of developmental problems. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. A life-course orientation to the study of gang membership; 2. Research procedures: the sample and the data; 3. Characteristics of gang members; 4. The antecedents of gang membership; 5. The origins of gang membership; 6. Gangs as a facilitating context for delinquent behavior; 7. Gangs, guns, and crime; 8. Gangs and other law violating youth groups; 9. Long-term consequences of gang membership; 10. Gangs in life-course perspective.

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• Authors: Marvin D. Krohn, Marvin D. (State University of New York Krohn, Alan D. Lizotte, Alan J. Lizotte, Alan J. (State University of New York Lizotte, Carolyn A. (State University of New York Smith, Terence P. Thornberry, Terence P. (State University of New Yo Thornberry, Terence P. (State University of New York Thornberry, Terence P. Krohn Thornberry, Kimberly (Westfield State College Tobin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.01.2003
• EAN: 9780521814393
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81439-3
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Criminolo; Cambridge Studies in Criminology; Cambridge Studies in Criminolo
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology