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Peer reviewedThompson, Kevin M.; Braaten-Antrim, Rhonda – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1998
Examines whether physical and sexual maltreatment raises the risk of gang involvement among secondary school students. Findings show that maltreatment increases the probability of gang involvement, independent of demographic factors. When youth are physically and sexually abused their odds of gang involvement are four times higher than those who…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Demography, Interpersonal Communication, Juvenile Gangs
Download full textBoyle, 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
