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Peer reviewedLaidler, Karen A. Joe; Hunt, Geoffrey – Social Justice, 1997
Challenges recent portrayals of the demonic character of female gang members by examining the life histories and social organizations of several different female gangs. Interviews with 65 female gang members from seven groups show that these young women experience potential and actual violence in different violence prone situations. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Inner City, Interviews
Savitz, Leonard D.; And Others – 1977
Over 500 black and 500 white boys born in 1957 and attending Philadelphia schools were interviewed along with their mothers. The data were analyzed to discover how educational aspirations, social values, quality of life, fear of crime, victimization, family structure, father-son interaction, social attachments, and gang affiliation affected the…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Crime, Delinquency Causes, Delinquent Behavior
Peer reviewedPatton, Peter L. – Urban Review, 1998
This ethnographic study of 50 male African-American gang members constructs a portrait of the culture in which these young men lived and points out factors that helped 11 of them begin to escape gang life, in contrast to the other 39 who lacked these supporting factors of families, teachers, and peers. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Students, Group Membership, High Risk Students
Download full textMiller, Walter B. – 1975
This report represents the findings of a study on violence by youth gangs in 12 major American cities, and deals with the following topics: (1) the rationale and methods for a national survey of youth gangs; (2) the existence and seriousness of the problem of youth gangs in 12 major American cities; (3) the size and scope of the youth gang…
Descriptors: Crime, Delinquency Causes, Delinquent Behavior, Disadvantaged Youth
Peer reviewedPryor, Douglas W.; McGarrell, Edmund F. – Youth and Society, 1993
Reports results of a survey administered to the general public in a large midwestern city on public perceptions of youth gang crime. The 306 residents (aged 14 years and over) of Indianapolis (Indiana) surveyed generally feel that youth gang crime is more serious in areas other than their own. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Crime, Delinquency, Disadvantaged Youth
Feldman, Harvey W.; And Others – 1992
A study of inner-city youth in San Francisco (California) shows that behavior and street ideology once associated exclusively with gangs have now become the world view of a large segment of inner-city young people, especially males. Inner-city young people who aspire to material success do not see a realistic connection between public education…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, Blacks, Crime
Boyle, Kathleen – 1992
The lives and places in society of urban youth at risk of dropping out of the Los Angeles (California) Unified School District schools are explored through interviews of adolescents whom the author met when doing field work in Los Angeles County. Data come from interviews conducted in the course of the 1991 Drug Use Forecasting Study (DUF) and the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Students, Child Abuse, Crack
