Youth Gang Members: Psychiatric Disorders and Substance Use by Albert John Sargent, Sherri Simpson, Dennis W. Young, Amy Mayhew, Ayanna Brown, Stephanie Kwok, Matthew Shelton, Barbara Robles, Toi Blakley Harris, Sara Elkins, Ashley Butler

“…The authors identified rates of psychiatric disorders within a juvenile justice population delineated in three categories: gang members, friends of gang members, and non-gang members. …”
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MALE GANG MEMBERS’ PERSPECTIVES ON GANG MEMBERSHIP AND THE ROLE OF DRUGS by Marcelle Wijnberg, Sulina Green

“…The findings of the study reveal that gang members present with unique physiological and belonging needs, which must be understood by social workers in order to gain optimum results with intervention.…”
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Childhood divided: child soliders and gang members in the Western imagination by Norton, SE

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Authoritarianism and narratives on subalternity in Guatemala and El Salvador: the communist and the gang member by Irene Lungo Rodríguez

“…This paper explores two narratives on subalternity promoted by the state and conservative power groupings in Guatemala and El Salvador – those of the communist and of the gang member – whose role in providing cultural support for authoritarianism is emphasised. …”
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Caregiver Type and Gang Involvement: A Comparison of Female and Male Gang Members by Daniel Scott, Natalie Goulette

“…Although research has found that various social and familial factors increase the probability of gang involvement, it primarily focuses on males, and little work has compared how a youth’s primary caregiver influences the likelihood of gang involvement among both male and female gang members. The current study uses school level data to examine gang involvement and primary caregiver type among male and female youth. …”
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Risky Youth or Gang Members? : A contextual critique of the (re)discovery of gangs in Britain by Young, Tara

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Fictive Kin and Helping Behavior: A Social Psychological Exploration Among Haitian Immigrants, Christian Fundamentalists, and Gang Members by Eric K. Shaw

“…Understanding more about the subjective nature of fictive kin relations is important for understanding individual motivations for engaging in various helping behaviors. Gang members are found to use fictive kin terminology and gangs are a substitute family for members.…”
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“Siempre firmes en terreno privado”: violencias y masculinidades en jóvenes pertenecientes a pandillas de Guadalajara by Rogelio Marcial

Subjects: “…gang members…”
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La deformación mediática de los jóvenes pandilleros; A deformação midiática dos jovens pandilleros; Media Deformation of Young Gang Members by Hugo César Moreno Hernández

“…In this way, society accepts criminal law legislation of the enemy, which not only detracts from the exercise of political and fundamental rights of young gang members but also from all citizens.   Key words: transnational gangs, criminalization, youth, de-citizenization, moral panic.…”
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Literacy and advocacy in adolescent family, gang, school and juvenile court communities / by 440422 Smith, Debbie, Whitmore, Kathryn F., 1959-

Subjects: “…Gang members…”

Heridas en la memoria: la guerra civil salvadoreña en el recuerdo de niñez de un pandillero. by Mario Zúñiga Núñez.

“…This article analyzes the childhood memory of a gang member who grew up, from the mid-1970s through the 1980s, in the middle of El Salvador's civil war. …”
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Baby boy by Cheuk, Amanda Bambby Yuet Ga, Chua, Zong Xuan, Heng, Jessica Lin Qing, Wu, Toby Zhi

“…Baby Boy is a documentary short about Zaki, a 17 year old ex-gang member. In this intimate portrait of change, Zaki’s passion for boxing and return to education bears much promise, yet is disrupted by the splintering of his familial unit. …”
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Understanding the lived experience of Malaysian Indian prison detainees of their gang life by Suppiah, Veera Sundari

“…3) What is the detainees’ life experience as a gang member or gangster? Analysis of the data from the first research question understanding about gangs and gangsterism provided two themes namely togetherness and violence. …”
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Racism, Schooling, and the Streets: A Critical Analysis of Vietnamese American Youth Gang Formation in Southern California by Kevin D. Lam

“…This paper is an analysis of the relationship between educational experiences, street life, and gang formation for Vietnamese American youth gang members in Southern California. I use critical narrative methodology to center the life and experiences of a Los Angeles area gang member. …”
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Racism, Schooling, and the Streets: A Critical Analysis of Vietnamese American Youth Gang Formation in Southern California by Kevin D. Lam

“…This paper is an analysis of the relationship between educational experiences, street life, and gang formation for Vietnamese American youth gang members in Southern California. I use critical narrative methodology to center the life and experiences of a Los Angeles area gang member. …”
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"Caught in the web": Difficulties in gang desistance. by Tan, Carolina., Tan, Seok Kian., Tan, Ying Ling.

“…The presence of gangs poses a significant social problem due to their prevalence and the disproportionate contribution of gang members in crime and delinquency. Past research on gang desistance substantially covers the motivation for leaving gangs but limited research has been done to account for gang members who intend to desist from the gang and yet, were restricted. …”
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Segregação socioambiental: estudo de caso no bairro colôniaventura/Tefé-AM a partir de uma perspectiva geográfica by Antonio Jucivan Martins Bruce, Eubia Andréa Rodrigues

“…It is within this circumstance that Tefé emerges as a town that has standardized itself and was built with these attributions, as a fragmented, articulated and unequal space (CORRÊA, 1995) which has promoted a dispute of socio-environmental segregation, this being identified in the Neighborhood of Cologne Ventura, in view of its residents suffer from discriminatory labels (gang member, potheads, drug addicts, thieves, etc.) from outside residents. …”
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Under the hood: the mechanics of London's street gangs by Densley, J, James Andrew Densley

“…<p>Based upon two years of ethnographic fieldwork in London, England, which incorporated nearly 200 interviews with gang members, gang associates, and police officers, among others, this thesis addresses three questions presently unresolved in the street gangs literature: What is the business of gangs? …”

Youth violence : an alternative explanation for homegrown terrorism by Floyd, Kathryn H.

“…Case studies (QUAL2) of two homegrown terrorists (one foreign born and one native born) and one gang member (control) from Northern Virginia applied this matrix in a modified Lakatosian comparison. …”
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“For Me, They Were the Good Old Days”: Retrospective Narratives of Childhood Experiences in ‘the Gang’ by Dev Rup Maitra

“…Much of the existing scholarship on gang membership predominantly focuses on adolescence as being the formative time period for the development of gang identities; however, there has thus far been more limited attention towards the childhood experiences of gang members, (i.e., pre-adolescence). The organising principle of this paper is to articulate the retrospective accounts of gang members’ childhoods, and how these recollections form a central role to the emergence of gang identities. …”
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