This review provides an opportunity to assess the current state of gang research and
suggest directions for its future. There has been a dramatic increase in research on gangs …

Recent years have seen an upsurge of attention paid to street gangs as scholars and
criminal justice officials strive to understand and counteract the effects of gang membership …

This study takes stock of empirical research examining the relationship between gang
membership and offending by subjecting this large body of work to a meta-analysis …

This book aims to inform students about the latest research and the most promising and
effective programs and for understanding, preventing and controlling juvenile delinquency …

The schools-as-communities perspective provides a popular explanation for school-
disruptive behavior, stating that interpersonal bonding at school and feelings of school …

Objectives. Drawing from social network and life-course frameworks, the authors extend
Hagan's concept of criminal embeddedness to embeddedness within gangs. This study …

Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, Ninth Edition, is a highly acclaimed textbook
offering a broad perspective on criminological theory. It provides students of criminology and …

Gang‐involved youth are disproportionately involved in criminal behavior, especially
violence. The processes accounting for this enhanced illegal activity, however, remain …

The short‐run deleterious effects of gang involvement during adolescence have been well
researched. However, surprisingly little empirical attention has been devoted to …

Research has shown that time spent with peers is related to delinquency, but little is known
about the conditions under which spending time with peers is most related to delinquent …