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Peer reviewedStoiber, Karen Callan; Good, Barbara – School Psychology Review, 1998
Discusses risk factors associated with sexual intercourse, gang involvement, and alcohol and drug use among adolescents. Different patterns of risk are found to predict the three problem behaviors. Discriminant analysis substantiates that delinquency was differentially associated with low problem vs. high problem urban adolescents. Results support…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Delinquency
Download full textMoore, Joan W. – 1991
This book traces the histories of two Chicano gangs in East Los Angeles since the early 1940s, when common gang stereotypes were created by the media and law enforcement agencies. In an unusual collaborative effort, researchers worked with former gang members to make contact with and interview members of various "cliques" (cohorts) of…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Delinquency, Economic Factors
