Social Development Models of Gang Involvement: Recent Contributions

ISBN-13: 9780367583736 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 174 str.

Marvin D. Krohn; James C. Howell

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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?

O autorze

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.