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High School Students: An Assessment of Their Knowledge of Gangs.

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McConnell, Elizabeth H. – Youth & Society, 1994

Assesses whether students possess information about gangs that could be useful to primary and secondary education providers. A sample of 193 inner-city high school students, representative in terms of ethnicity, gender, and grade level, completed questionnaires. The data revealed that students are a feasible source of data on gangs. (GLR)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Ethnic Groups, High School Students, Inner City

Social Learning Theory, Self-Reported Delinquency, and Youth Gangs: A New Twist on a General Theory of Crime and Delinquency.

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Winfree, L. Thomas, Jr.; And Others – Youth & Society, 1994

Examines the utility of applying selected elements of the social-learning theory to the examination of youth gangs. Studying ninth-grade public-school pupils, researchers discovered that the social-learning perspective provided insights into gang membership. Group-context offending was related to both social-learning theory and gang membership.…

Descriptors: Adolescents, Crime, Delinquency, Ethnic Groups