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Title: Age-Graded Patterns of Gang Membership within a Nationally-Representative Longitudinal Sample of Youth
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Pyrooz, David Cyrus |
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Age-Graded Patterns of Gang Membership within a Nationally-Representative Longitudinal Sample of Youth Presented: Chicago IL, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, 2012 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: American Society of Criminology Keyword(s): Arrests; Crime; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Life Course; Modeling, Trajectory analysis Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Longitudinal knowledge of gang membership is underdeveloped. Extant research is limited to a handful of sub-city samples, and less emphasis has been placed on providing detailed information about the age-graded longitudinal contours of gang membership. This study conceptualizes gang membership in a life-course criminological framework and examines patterns of onset, continuity, and change in gang membership from adolescence to early adulthood. The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Cohort of 1997, consisting of a nationally-representative sample of 8,984 youth between ages 12 and 16, was used to examine these patterns. Group-based trajectory modeling was employed to identify distinct developmental pathways of gang membership over a 14-year period and arrest patterns are compared to highlight differences across groups. |
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Pyrooz, David Cyrus. "Age-Graded Patterns of Gang Membership within a Nationally-Representative Longitudinal Sample of Youth." Presented: Chicago IL, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, 2012. |