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definitions of gang members provided to research participants and used by researchers to identify gang members, empirical examination of different gang membership criteria or indicators, and empirical research on law enforcement officers’ ability to accurately identify gang members.
What is a gang? What factors motivate individuals to join a street gang? What factors maintain gang membership in prison and the community? What factors are associated with desistance from gang...
include capital punishment, gang membership, and gang delinquency. Brenda J. Bond, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Public Service at Suffolk University. Her work focuses on the management and performance of police organizations as well as cross‐ agency collaboration. She has examined these issues in a book co‐edited with Erika Gebo,
22 Σεπ 2022 · The author presents an evolving gang model in which the key sequential stages are outlined as recreational, criminal, and syndicate and argue that, aided by globalization, gang organization has...
3. Definition of “gang” The criteria that a country uses in defining gangs (in particular youth gangs) unquestionably determine the course of the strategy that it adopts to deal with the problem, from positions that focus on prevention and social integration of male and female gang members, to those that justify a “tough
The various criteria used to define street gangs have included: (1) age (i.e., members must be adolescents or young adults); (2) the existence of a group name; (3) distinctive group symbols or defining insignia (tattoos, colours, etc.); (4) control of a specific
21 Νοε 2011 · Their study attempted to find differences in the understanding of gangs among a number of different persons: police officers, members of an antidrug/antigang task force, and juvenile detainees. Interestingly, the police used the most narrow and restrictive definition of gang membership.
