Honor, Normative Ambiguity and Gang Violence

Horowitz, Ruth; Schwartz, Gary K.

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“…Violence is often a defining characteristic in describing gangs (Decker & van Winkle, 1996), and is justified through violent and aggressive attitudes that are strengthened by gang membership (Horowitz & Schwartz, 1974). This suggests that violence is an important part of gang membership.…”

Section: Violent Attitudes and Gang Violencementioning

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Attitude is everything: Youth attitudes, gang involvement, and length of institutional gang membership

Scott

2014

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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Prison gangs have been a topic of interest among scholars, but research on youth prison gangs is limited. Furthermore, violent attitudes and gang involvement have not been addressed extensively, and a better understanding of youth prison gang involvement is needed to effectively inform responses to violence in correctional facilities. This paper fills this research gap through an analysis of violent attitudes as they relate to gang involvement and length of gang membership. The data derive from interviews with 285 males conducted in a larger study on gangs and violence in California’s youth correctional facilities. The results show that gang members tend to have stronger violent and aggressive attitudes compared to nongang members, and length of institutional gang membership is statistically significant and negatively associated with violent and aggressive attitudes. Furthermore, a youth’s violent and aggressive attitudes will vary depending on if the youth has never spent time in an institutional gang, is currently in one, or is a former institutional gang member. I conclude the paper with a discussion of these findings and what they imply for gang group processes, theory, institutional policy, and programs.

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Section: Violent Attitudes and Gang Violencementioning

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Attitude is everything: Youth attitudes, gang involvement, and length of institutional gang membership

Scott

2014

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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“…For gang members, long-term abstract goals, such as being respected and feared, influence the preparedness of the individual for aggression [e.g., Horowitz and Schwartz, 1974;Klein and Maxson, 1989]. In the research literature on cognitive processes, Denzler et al [2009] showed that the goal to aggress increases accessibility of aggressive thoughts and that goal fulfillment reduces accessibility of aggressive content and the likelihood of aggressive behavior.…”

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Role of prevolitional processes in aggressive behavior: the indirect influence of goal

2010

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The central aim of this article is to investigate the relationship between prevolitional processes and aggressive behavior. More specifically, the role of the goal underlying aggressive behavior was examined. A model of attitude, the Extended Model of Goal-directed Behavior, was tested with structural equation models to analyze the process that leads to the verbally aggressive behavior of calling someone names. Results showed that Goal Desire was a significant predictor but its relation to behavior is indirect, through desire toward and intention of calling someone names. Moreover, the results indicated that the positive emotions one anticipates if successful in calling someone names and the control one has over calling someone names play a significant role in the desire to call someone names. The discussion emphasizes the necessity of considering prevolitional processes when studying deliberative processes involved in the emergence of aggressive behavior.

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“…Vagueness may even be favored by certain interactional considerations, such as power differentials between the interactants, or it may be motivated by the need to present oneself as "in" and hence to avoid embarrassing questions about things that everyone might be presumed to know. Horowitz and Schwartz (1974) make the encouraging observation that talk about activities in the field of the youth matches their observations in the field. 8 The problems of assigning meaning to talk of peer associations are further compounded by the existence of subgroups, cliques, and smaller units, all of which lack names, making it difficult to talk about them.…”

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Social structure and peer terminology in a black adolescent gang

Labov

1982

Lang. Soc.

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Studies of the social organization of adolescent groups may not have always taken into account sufficiently the dual reality of the groups in which much of the youths' activities occur. Peer terminology is useful in locating and describing the associational patterns and activities of the youth, but only if the range of possible terms is considerably broadened. It was found in a study of a Harlem street gang that such language may appear ambiguous, but when studied systematically in the interaction between interviewer and members, the misunderstandings become transparent. Peer terminological practices can be used to provide further knowledge of the reality of the social organization of adolescent primary groups. (Peer terminology, primary groups, misunderstanding, interviewing, juvenile delinquency, urban black adolescent language; verbal tags.)

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Honor, Normative Ambiguity and Gang Violence

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Attitude is everything: Youth attitudes, gang involvement, and length of institutional gang membership

Attitude is everything: Youth attitudes, gang involvement, and length of institutional gang membership

Role of prevolitional processes in aggressive behavior: the indirect influence of goal

Social structure and peer terminology in a black adolescent gang

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