The aim of this study was to examine whether street gang membership, psychological factors, and social factors such as preprison experiences could predict young offenders' involvement in prison gang activity. Data were collected via individual interviews with 188 young offenders held in a Young Offenders Institution in the United Kingdom. Results showed that psychological factors such as the va...

In this paper we propose a new class of scheduling policies, dubbed Concurrent Gang, that combines the advantages of gang scheduling for communication and synchronization intensive parallel jobs with the flexibility of a Unix scheduler for sequential and I/O intensive jobs. Besides that, scalability in Concurrent Gang is achieved through the use of a global synchronizer that coordinates the gan...

Gang scheduling has been widely used as a practical solution to the dynamic parallel job scheduling problem. Parallel tasks of a job are scheduled for simultaneous execution on a partition of a parallel computer. Gang Scheduling has many advantages, such as responsiveness, efficient sharing of resources and ease of programming. However, there are two major problems associated with gang scheduli...

Most of the empirical research and practically all of the fieldwork conducted on gangs has been devoted to street gangs. In this paper, automated data from the Bureau of Prisons were used to evaluate the contribution of prison gang affiliation to violent and other forms of misconduct within the institution. We also examined a measure of gang embeddedness to see if, similar to the street gang re...

PROBLEM Gang violence affects many adolescents in the United States, and there has been an increase in violent crimes against adolescents in recent years. METHOD A literature review examined studies related to gang violence. FINDINGS Little research has focused on adolescents' exposure to gang violence and its effects on adolescents' mental health. Adolescents develop internalizing symptoms...

BACKGROUND This article focuses on examining drug abuse treatment (DAT) in El Salvador highlighting gang vs. non-gang membership differences in drug use and treatment outcomes. METHODS Cross-sectional and prospective cohort designs were employed to examine the study aims. The 19 centers that met the study's inclusion criteria of one year or less in planned treatment offered varying treatment ...

We study the well-known sociological phenomenon of gang aggregation and territory formation through an interacting agent system defined on a lattice. We introduce a two-gang Hamiltonian model where agents have red or blue affiliation but are otherwise indistinguishable. In this model, all interactions are indirect and occur only via graffiti markings, onsite as well as on nearest neighbor locat...

This paper examines whether economic factors significantly associate to the propensity of gang-related crimes and non-gang crimes in Lane County. To conduct this study, Detective Harvey of the Eugene Police Department’s gang task force supplied data with recorded gang-related and non-gang arrests in Eugene and Springfield from 2003 through 2012. The data was organized quarterly with number of a...