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Serious Delinquency and Gang Participation: Combining and Specializing in Drug Selling, Theft and Violence.

ABSTRACT: Using Pittsburgh Youth Study data, we examined the extent to which over 600 gang members and non-gang involved young men specialized in drug selling, serious theft, or serious violence or engaged simultaneously in these serious delinquent behaviors, throughout the 1990s. We found that the increase in delinquency associated with gang membership was concentrated in two combinations: serious violence and drug selling; serious violence, drug selling, and serious theft. Several covariates were similarly associated with multi-type serious delinquency and gang membership (age, historical time, Black race, and residential mobility), suggesting that these behaviors may share common developmental, familial, and contextual risks. We encourage future research to further examine the association of gang membership with engagement in particular configurations of serious delinquency.

SUBMITTER: Gordon RA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4060635 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Serious Delinquency and Gang Participation: Combining and Specializing in Drug Selling, Theft and Violence.

Gordon Rachel A RA Rowe Hillary L HL Pardini Dustin D Loeber Rolf R White Helene Raskin HR Farrington David P DP

Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence 20140601 2

Using Pittsburgh Youth Study data, we examined the extent to which over 600 gang members and non-gang involved young men specialized in drug selling, serious theft, or serious violence or engaged simultaneously in these serious delinquent behaviors, throughout the 1990s. We found that the increase in delinquency associated with gang membership was concentrated in two combinations: serious violence and drug selling; serious violence, drug selling, and serious theft. Several covariates were simila ...[more]

PMID: 24954999

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Serious Delinquency and Gang Participation: Combining and Specializing in Drug Selling, Theft and Violence.

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Serious Delinquency and Gang Participation: Combining and Specializing in Drug Selling, Theft and Violence.

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