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Caregiver Type and Gang Involvement: A Comparison of Female and Male Gang Members
Social sciences (Basel), Vol.12(8), p.432
07/01/2023
Web of Science ID: WOS:001056990300001
Abstract
Gang involvement and delinquency are prominent issues frequently examined in criminal justice scholarship. Research has revealed that gang involvement increases the likelihood of delinquency/crime, and that youth participate in gangs for a variety of reasons including protection, status, and a sense of belonging. Although research has found that various social and familial factors increase the probability of gang involvement, it primarily focuses on males, and little work has compared how a youth’s primary caregiver influences the likelihood of gang involvement among both male and female gang members. The current study uses school level data to examine gang involvement and primary caregiver type among male and female youth. The results identify significant differences in gang involvement among boys and girls when examining primary caretaker. The findings have implications for theory and programming in connection with youth gang involvement for both boys and girls.
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- Title
- Caregiver Type and Gang Involvement
- Publication Details
- Social sciences (Basel), Vol.12(8), p.432
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Format
- link
- Number of pages
- 15
- Copyright
- © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Identifiers
- WOS:001056990300001; 99380463997206600
- Academic Unit
- Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Legal Studies; College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities
- Language
- English