Gang Delinquency Develop Perspectve

List of contents

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• 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 York Thornberry, Kimberly (Westfield State College Tobin, Kimberly (Westfield State College) Tobin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.08.2017
• EAN: 9780521891295
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89129-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 388 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Criminology; Cambridge Studies in Criminolo; Cambridge Studies in Criminolo
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology