The proliferation of youth gangs since 1980 has fueled the public’s fear and magnified possible misconceptions about youth gangs. To address the mounting concern about youth gangs, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s (OJJDP’s) Youth Gang Series delves into many of the key issues related to youth gangs. The series considers issues such as gang migration, gang growth, fema...

Abstract Through an analysis of interviews with Southern California attorneys, supplemented by archival materials, this article contributes to the literature on gangs, critical criminology, and Gothic tropes examining how ambiguous nature gang profiling allows state actors target racialized others in various legal administrative venues little evidence few procedural protections. I conceptualize...

This paper conceptualises the enhancement of technological capability by firms, following international technology transfer, as an evolutionary process. During this process, the existing technological, managerial and other complementary resources may require restructuring. Since China is in transition from central planning to market orientation, the organisational and managerial practices of Ch...

The concept of gang aggression oftentimes elicits images of brutal inter-gang violence. In reality, gang-related aggression can vary widely, can have various motivations and causal factors, and includes interpersonal as well as intergroup aggression. This study examined the tendency of U.K. youth to engage in displaced aggression (aggression aimed at undeserving targets) and examined the relati...

This study uses longitudinal data from an ethnically diverse sample of 300 ninth grade students to examine the moderating effect of parenting practices upon the relationship between gang involvement and adolescent problem behavior. Results of hierarchical linear modeling indicate that gang involvement is a highly significant positive predictor of each of three categories of problem behavior (mi...

This study examined the role of adaptation in the first year of middle school (Grade 6, age 11) to affiliation with gangs by the last year of middle school (Grade 8, age 13). The sample consisted of 714 European American (EA) and African American (AA) boys and girls. Specifically, academic grades, reports of antisocial behavior, and peer relations in 6th grade were used to predict multiple meas...

OBJECTIVES We examined the possible public health consequences of adolescent gang membership for adult functioning. METHODS Data were drawn from the Seattle Social Development Project, a longitudinal study focusing on the development of positive and problem outcomes. Using propensity score matching and logistic regression analyses, we assessed the effects of adolescent gang membership on ille...

Received (received date) Revised (revised date) Communicated by Editor's name ABSTRACT Gang scheduling has been widely used as a practical solution to the dynamic parallel job scheduling problem. To overcome some of the limitations of traditional Gang scheduling algorithms, Concurrent Gang is proposed as a class of scheduling policies which allows the exible and simultaneous scheduling of multi...

Research has frequently focused on the increased likelihood of violence and homicide among gang-involved individuals, as well factors that contribute to this violence. Such work examined relationship between immigration frequency crime, well. However, there is a dearth research examining gang-related presence both gang migrants from within U.S. those abroad in given community. The current paper...