Despite a small but growing literature on gang disengagement and desistance, little is known about how social networks changes in correspond to self-reported street membership over time. The current study describes the personal or “ego” network composition of 228 members two east coast cities United States. highlights associated with waves survey data, describing notable differences between tho...

Gang involvement and delinquency are prominent issues frequently examined in criminal justice scholarship. Research has revealed that gang increases the likelihood of delinquency/crime, youth participate gangs for a variety reasons including protection, status, sense belonging. Although research found various social familial factors increase probability involvement, it primarily focuses on male...

Reducing Gang Violence Using Focused Deterrence: Evaluating the Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV) Robin S. Engel , Marie Skubak Tillyer & Nicholas Corsaro To cite this article: Robin S. Engel , Marie Skubak Tillyer & Nicholas Corsaro (2013) Reducing Gang Violence Using Focused Deterrence: Evaluating the Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV), Justice Quarterly, 30:3, 403-...

This study integrates one of the most empirically tested individual characteristics (self-control) with situational factors (risky lifestyle) in an attempt to explain the risks involved in violent victimization. Data came from a diverse sample of 3,907 middle school students who participated in the G.R.E.A.T. program during the 1993-1994 school year. Gang membership is used as a proxy variable ...

This qualitative descriptive study used Agnew's general strain theory of crime and delinquency as lens through which to interpret the recent developments of juvenile gangs and gang-related activities in Houston, Texas. Agnew strain theory's main prepositions describe: 1) an inability to achieve goals that are valued positively, 2) an absence of positive goals, and 3) a presence of negativity or...

This paper explores the role of local structural conditions that facilitate or hinder violence when enmity is present between parties. This is illustrated by examining violence among street gangs. Using structural balance theory, the current research investigates whether certain triadic structures in which two rival gangs i and j are related to a third gang with either an ally or rival relation...

Most commercial multicomputers use space-slicing schemes in which each scheduling decision has an unknown impact on the future: should a job be scheduled, risking that it will block other larger jobs later, or should the processors be left idle for now in anticipation of future arrivals? This dilemma is solved by using gang scheduling, because then the impact of each decision is limited to its ...