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Ethnic Differences in the Effect of Parenting on Gang Involvement and Gang Delinquency: A Longitudinal, Hierarchical Linear Modeling Perspective.
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Walker-Barnes, Chanequa J.; Mason, Craig A. – Child Development, 2001
Examined relative influence of peer and parenting behavior on changes in adolescent gang involvement and gang-related delinquency among ninth-graders. Found that gang involvement decreased over the school year, with average levels of gang delinquency remaining constant. Gang involvement and gang-related delinquency were most strongly predicted by…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Comparative Analysis, Delinquency, Early Adolescents
The Etiology of Female Juvenile Delinquency and Gang Membership: A Test of Psychological and Social Structural Explanations.
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Bowker, Lee H.; Klein, Malcolm W. – Adolescence, 1983
Examined female delinquency and gang membership in 122 black female juveniles using data from the 1960s. Concluded that racism, sexism, poverty, and limited opportunity are more important predictors of delinquency than personality and family relationships. Relationships with girl friends were more significant predictors than heterosexual…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Youth, Delinquency Causes, Etiology
Gangs as Alternative Transitional Structures: Adaptations to Racial and Social Marginality in Los Angeles and London.
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Gibbs, Jewelle Taylor – Journal of Multicultural Social Work, 2000
Focus groups and interviews with African American youth in Los Angeles and Afro-Caribbean youth in London found gangs to be one of their five top issues; identified social, educational, and employment factors fostering gang formation; and identified psychological, social, and economic functions of gangs for their members. (Contains 95 references.)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Youth, Disadvantaged Youth, Foreign Countries
Sweet Mothers and Gangbangers: Managing Crime in a Black Middle-Class Neighborhood.
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Pattillo, Mary E. – Social Forces, 1998
Ethnographic data from a black middle-class Chicago neighborhood indicate that dense social networks fostered by residential stability facilitate informal supervision of neighborhood youth and enhance formal crime-prevention activities. Nevertheless, inclusion of gang members and drug dealers in networks of law-abiding kin and neighbors thwarts…
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Youth, Crime Prevention, Ethnography
The Developmental Ecology of Urban Males' Youth Violence.
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Tolan, Patrick H.; Gorman-Smith, Deborah; Henry, David B. – Developmental Psychology, 2003
Tested a developmental-ecological model of violence using longitudinal data from poor, urban African American and Latino adolescent boys and caregivers. Found that community structural characteristics significantly predicted neighborhood social processes. Parenting practices partially mediated relationship between neighborhood social processes and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Black Youth, Hispanic American Students
Mathematics Instruction in Inner-City Intermediate Schools: An Inductive Approach to Identifying Problems and Crafting Solutions. Research Report #8.
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Manning, Philip; Matthews, Sarah H. – 1993
An exploration of sources of gang activity in an urban area used ethnographic research with researchers posing as mathematics tutors for 1 year in a school comprising seventh and eighth grades. The "tutors" attended six eighth grade mathematics classes and acted as assistants to the teacher. The classes of 25 to 30 students lasted 40 minutes and…
Descriptors: Black Students, Black Youth, Curriculum Problems, Economically Disadvantaged