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Title: Gang Membership and Violent Delinquency: How Strong is the Association After Taking into Account Familial Confounds?
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Connolly, Eric J. |
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Gang Membership and Violent Delinquency: How Strong is the Association After Taking into Account Familial Confounds? Presented: New Orleans LA, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, November 2016 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: American Society of Criminology Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Family Influences; Siblings Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Gang membership has perhaps been found to be one of the strongest predictors of juvenile delinquency and early contact with the criminal justice system. Indeed, a well-developed body of research indicates that gang membership increases the likelihood of engaging in violent delinquency over and above the influence of individual personality traits, school environment, and neighborhood context. While an impressive amount of empirical support has accumulated over time for the association between gang membership and adolescent violence using different statistical techniques and analyzing a wide range of samples, no research to date has examined whether and to what extent gang membership predicts violent delinquency after taking into account co-occurring genetic and environmental processes. The present study uses sibling data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 to estimate a series of sibling-comparison models in order to isolate the environmental influence of gang membership on violent delinquency and provide a rigorous test of the well-established link between gang membership and adolescent violence. Results offer new insight into the nexus between gang membership and violent delinquency. Theoretical and methodological implications for future life-course/developmental research on gangs and delinquency are discussed. |
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Connolly, Eric J. "Gang Membership and Violent Delinquency: How Strong is the Association After Taking into Account Familial Confounds?" Presented: New Orleans LA, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, November 2016. |