Gang-Membership

Selection and facilitation: Is the gang membership-psychopathic traits link a product of individual differences, social influences, or both?
The issue of psychopathology among gang populations is controversial.
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Selection and facilitation: Is the gang membership-psychopathic traits link a product of individual differences, social influences, or both?
Birds of a feather? Individual differences and gang membership
Gang membership has a robust relationship with crime and violence, leading scholars to take an interest in examining the sources of gang joining.
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Birds of a feather? Individual differences and gang membership
Procedural justice, legal orientations, and gang membership: Testing an alternative explanation to understand the gang-misconduct link
A top priority of prison authorities is maintaining a safe and orderly institutional environment. Gangs are believed to impede this objective, warranting bespoke policies and practices.
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Procedural justice, legal orientations, and gang membership: Testing an alternative explanation to understand the gang-misconduct link
The National Death Index as a source of homicide data: A methodological exposition of promises and pitfalls for criminologists
The National Death Index (NDI), a comprehensive and well-established database compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics, is an untapped source of homicide data that offers identifiable linkages to other data sources while retaining national coverage.
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The National Death Index as a source of homicide data: A methodological exposition of promises and pitfalls for criminologists
Gang affilitation and prisoner reentry: Discrete-time variation in recidivism by current, former, and non-gang status
Reentry experiences for the 600,000 people released annually from federal and state prisons differ vastly. We contend that gangs, which rose to prominence alongside mass incarceration, are an overlooked source of variation in reentry experiences.
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Gang affilitation and prisoner reentry: Discrete-time variation in recidivism by current, former, and non-gang status