Terence P. Thornberry, Marvin D. Krohn, Alan J. Lizotte

Gang Delinquency Develop Perspectve

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how membership in adolescent street gangs influences human development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780521814393
• ISBN-10: 0521814391
• Artikelnr.: 29337606

Inhaltsangabe

1. A life-course orientation to the study of gang membership
2. Research procedures: the sample and the data
3. Characteristics of gang members
4. The antecedents of gang membership
5. The origins of gang membership
6. Gangs as a facilitating context for delinquent behavior
7. Gangs, guns, and crime
8. Gangs and other law violating youth groups
9. Long-term consequences of gang membership
10. Gangs in life-course perspective.