Process Evaluation of the Saskatoon STR8UP Program

While there is evidence that gang membership impacts an individual's gun carrying proclivities, existing research has largely focused only on males and at-risk youth. The present study investigates the role of gang membership, peer gang membership, and delinquency on whether individuals carry a firearm using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997. Carrying a firearm was associated with involvement in delinquency, peer gang membership, and respondent gang membership. The association between gang membership and carrying a firearm weakened with age. Few significant differences across categories of sex and race emerged suggesting that the relationship between gang membership and carrying a firearm is equivocal across these groups.Keywords Gang membership . Gun carrying . Delinquency . ViolenceDespite documented decreases in rates of violent offending, gang-related violent crime remains a significant public concern. These issues are compounded by concerns around the use of firearms in the commission of these crimes. The FBI reported that in 2011 firearms were used in 68 % of murders, 41 % of robbery offenses and 21 % of aggravated assaults nationwide (FBI, 2012). According to the National Youth Gang Survey (NYGS), approximately 13 % of all homicides in the United States are gang- Am J Crim Just (2016) 41:168-184

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Investigating the Relationship Between Gang Membership and Carrying a Firearm: Results from a National Sample

Tigri

Reid

Turner

et al. 2015

Am J Crim Just

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Process Evaluation of the Saskatoon STR8UP Program

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Investigating the Relationship Between Gang Membership and Carrying a Firearm: Results from a National Sample

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