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Seals, Richard Alan |
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Cognitive Ability and Street Gang Participation: Evidence from the NLSY and Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods Working Paper (2009), Oklahoma City, OK: Meinders School of Business, Oklahoma City University, 2009. Also: http://ocu-stars.okcu.edu/aseals/index_files/Cognitive_Ability_and_Street_Gang_Participation.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: School of Business (Meinders), Oklahoma City University Keyword(s): Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); Bullying/Victimization; Cognitive Ability; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Deviance; I.Q.; Neighborhood Effects; Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN); Unemployment, Youth Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. A voluminous literature investigates the social processes that generate gang activity. A parallel literature investigates the linkage between IQ scores and a range of deviant behavior. In this paper, I examine the effects of measured cognitive ability on individual gang participation. I use data from the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods to estimate survival models of gang participation. Results indicate low IQ is a robust predictor of gang participation. |
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Seals, Richard Alan. "Cognitive Ability and Street Gang Participation: Evidence from the NLSY and Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods." Working Paper (2009), Oklahoma City, OK: Meinders School of Business, Oklahoma City University, 2009. |