Cross-Group Investigations: Youth Gangs in Medellin, Colombia

Autor/inn/en	Drummond, Holli; Dizgun, John; Keeling, David
Titel	Cross-Group Investigations: Youth Gangs in Medellin, Colombia
Quelle	In: Youth & Society, 51 (2019) 1, S.73-100 (28 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0044-118X
DOI	10.1177/0044118X16662536
Schlagwörter	Juvenile Gangs; Foreign Countries; Case Studies; Disadvantaged; Group Membership; Adolescents; Models; Delinquency; Urban Areas; Neighborhoods; Nonprofit Organizations; Parenting Styles; Parent Child Relationship; Adolescent Attitudes; Colombia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Jugendbande; Ausland; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Gruppenzugehörigkeit; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Analogiemodell; Kriminalität; Urban area; Stadtregion; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Nonprofit-Organisation; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Kolumbien
Abstract	The present study evaluates adolescent gang involvement using cross-sectional survey data from 1,475 adolescents living in a disadvantaged Comuna in Medellin, Colombia. Specifically, we examine the prevalence of former and current gang membership, affiliation with gang members, and lives untouched by any gang association. Once these groups are established, we identify variation in membership on the basis of demographic and theoretical variables, and determine whether such variation can be described by using the selection, facilitation, and enhancement models developed by Thornberry et al. While our results, consistent with many prior findings using North American samples, support the "selection" model for most theoretical variables and "enhancement" for behavioral outcomes, our strongest contribution is our study's ability to demonstrate the temporal impact of gang involvement. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01