2013
DOI: 10.1177/1477370813511385
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Street gang participation in Europe: A comparison of correlates

Abstract: The literature on risk factors for joining street gangs has relied mainly on surveys of US youth. This article addresses the consistency of correlates of street gang involvement in several European countries. We utilize self-report surveys of middle school students in 19 European countries. We employ the Eurogang definition of gang membership and address the degree to which risk indicators from multiple ecological domains surface with some regularity across these different country contexts. Delinquent offendin… Show more

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“…The Eurogang Program has made great strides by achieving a consensus defi nition supported by gang experts from many nations-and one that has been applied to research in over 30 countries (Klein 2012 ; see, for example Haymoz et al 2014 ). Studies have begun to refl ect on the utility of the Eurogang defi nition for theory and practice.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The Eurogang Program has made great strides by achieving a consensus defi nition supported by gang experts from many nations-and one that has been applied to research in over 30 countries (Klein 2012 ; see, for example Haymoz et al 2014 ). Studies have begun to refl ect on the utility of the Eurogang defi nition for theory and practice.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Haymoz and Gatti ( 2010 ) note similarities in gang patterns evident in student surveys in Italy and Switzerland even while Gatti et al ( 2011 ) report widely varying gang prevalence rates in the 30 country sample. Drawing from this same dataset, Haymoz et al ( 2014 ) illustrate the challenges of explaining the differences in gang risk factors they detect in analysis of city-based samples in 19 countries. Pyrooz and his colleagues ( 2012 ) profi t from common gang measurement among student surveys in two Caribbean nations and several US cities to study gang organization and offending patterns, fi nding more differences than similarities.…”
Section: Collaboration Among Researchersmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…GAGV's revised curriculum both reflects and responds to growing understanding of young people's agency and decisions in the London street gang context (Densley & Stevens, 2015) and the universality of correlates for gang participation (Haymoz, Maxson, & Killias, 2014). Recent empirical work has identified individual-level profiles and motivations and grouplevel structures and processes in London, specifically, that share more in common with the US than the rest of the UK (Alleyne & Wood, 2012;Densley, 2014;Harding 2014;Pitts, 2008).…”
Section: Growing Against Gangs and Violence (Gagv)mentioning
confidence: 99%