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Yiu, Ho Lam – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2021
Social bonds and social organization theory are combined to examine schools' roles in regulating youth gang involvement in the context of community changes--an integrated approach to analyze psychological and sociological influences simultaneously. A subsample (N = 269) from Gottfredson et al.'s (A national study of delinquency prevention in…
Descriptors: School Role, Juvenile Gangs, Community Change, Social Theories
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Gagnon, Joseph Calvin; Murphy, Kristin M.; Howie, Sheryl M. – Exceptionality, 2020
Child maltreatment and exposure to violence are pervasive in South African townships. Coupled with economic hardships, many youth turn to drugs and crime, and eventually come in contact with the juvenile justice system. The purpose of this study was to gain an in-depth understanding of how one young man perceives aspects of his life prior to,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Abuse, Violence, Institutionalized Persons
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Chavez Villegas, Cirenia; Butti, Elena – Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2020
The relation between being out of school and participating in criminal economies is widely documented in the literature on youth delinquency. However, the complex connection between these two phenomena has not yet been fully unpacked. This paper draws from two studies that we, the authors, conducted separately to explore the role educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Delinquency, Criminals, Crime
Baker, Kimberly S. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The researcher conducted a quantitative research study to determine the perceptions of two groups of selected school personnel (principals or assistant principals and counselors or teachers) regarding gang presence in the fifth-grade population of elementary schools in a large urban school district in North Texas. The researcher examined and…
Descriptors: School Personnel, Principals, Assistant Principals, School Counselors
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Drummond, Holli; Dizgun, John; Keeling, David – Youth & Society, 2019
The present study evaluates adolescent gang involvement using cross-sectional survey data from 1,475 adolescents living in a disadvantaged Comuna in Medellin, Colombia. Specifically, we examine the prevalence of former and current gang membership, affiliation with gang members, and lives untouched by any gang association. Once these groups are…
Descriptors: Juvenile Gangs, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Disadvantaged
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Boden, Thomas – Educational & Child Psychology, 2019
Aims: This systematic review aims to explore the lived experiences of young gang members to explore the processes that mediate gang membership and offending. Rationale: Gang membership disproportionately effects young people (Home Office, 2016). The link between gang membership and inordinately high levels of severe offending characteristics is…
Descriptors: Juvenile Gangs, Experience, Delinquency, At Risk Persons
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Ríos Vega, Juan A. – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
This article analyzes Julio's counter-storytelling narratives as an undocumented and Latino youth attending schools in the Southeast. Through his narratives, this case study discusses how gender, accent, socioeconomic and immigration status intersect multiple layers of discrimination, pushing Julio out of school prior to his self-deportation. The…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Undocumented Immigrants, Student Experience, Gender Discrimination
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Wong, Daniel F. K.; Ip, Priscilla S. Y.; Chan, Man Ho; Zhuang, Xiao Yu – Research on Social Work Practice, 2018
Objectives: This study evaluated a culturally attuned cognitive-behavior intervention for reducing impulsivity and delinquency-related attitudes and behaviors among Chinese delinquent youth in Hong Kong. Methods: A quasi-experimental design was adopted. Twenty participants received CBI, and 20 received routine counseling for a period of 12 months.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Restructuring, Behavior Modification, Delinquency, Conceptual Tempo
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Docherty, Meagan; Sweeten, Gary; Craig, Tyleia; Yang, Vevette J. H.; Decrop, Romain; Beardslee, Jordan; Piquero, Alex; Clark, Catie; Pardini, Dustin – Journal of School Violence, 2020
Although studies have identified risk factors for adolescent handgun carrying, previous research on risk factors for carrying a handgun to school specifically is sparse. This study examines self-report data from 122,840 8th, 10th, and 12th grade students from 426 schools across Arizona, from three survey administrations (2014, 2016, and 2018). In…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Adolescents, Weapons
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Hernando-Lloréns, Belén – Curriculum Inquiry, 2018
This article traces the conditions that made possible the legislation of police surveillance of schools as a "solution" to the "problems" of "convivencia" in school, during a period of social and racial diversification of Spanish society. During the 1980s and 1990s, "convivencia" -- the ideal of living…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Violence, Police School Relationship, Educational History
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Kim, Jeongsuk; Gentle-Genitty, Carolyn; Kim, Jangmin – School Psychology International, 2020
Many studies have examined significant factors associated with school delinquency among adolescents, including relationship violence, property damage, and other serious threats to students' safety. However, students' coping behaviors after being victims of or witnesses to violence and other forms of delinquency have not been thoroughly examined.…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Middle School Students, High School Students, Violence
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Liu, Lin; Xie, Ailei – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2016
This paper reports the findings of an eight-month ethnographic study of a small group of at-risk youths in a school of a southern coastal city in China. The process leading to the young students being marginalised by the school system and how they developed a "muddling through" subculture to counteract this marginalisation is revealed.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, At Risk Students, Student Subcultures
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Brown, Tara A. – Harvard Educational Review, 2016
Youth involved in illegal street activities such as drug trafficking and violence are at high risk for school failure and other negative outcomes. Research often seeks to identify what is "wrong" with them, what makes them different from "normal" youth, but relatively few studies focus on variations in how youth engage in and…
Descriptors: Juvenile Gangs, At Risk Persons, Delinquency, Young Adults
Washburn, Maureen; Menart, Renee – Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, 2019
California's state youth correctional system, the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), is violent, isolated, and lacks accountability. Fights and riots are a part of daily life and create a culture of fear. DJJ's violent conditions are concealed by an absence of state oversight and the facilities' long distances from youths' families and…
Descriptors: Juvenile Justice, Violence, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
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Zhang, Anlan; Wang, Ke; Zhang, Jizhi; Kemp, Jana; Diliberti, Melissa; Oudekerk, Barbara A. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
A joint effort by the National Center for Education Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics, this annual report examines crime occurring in schools and colleges. This report presents data on crime at school from the perspectives of students, teachers, principals, and the general population from an array of sources--the National Crime…
Descriptors: Crime, Violence, School Safety, National Surveys
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