U.S. Juvenile Arrests: Gang Membership, Social Class, and Labeling Effects

Autor/in	Tapia, Mike
Titel	U.S. Juvenile Arrests: Gang Membership, Social Class, and Labeling Effects
Quelle	In: Youth & Society, 43 (2011) 4, S.1407-1432 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0044-118X
DOI	10.1177/0044118X10386083
Schlagwörter	Group Membership; Social Class; Delinquency; Interaction; Juvenile Justice; Juvenile Gangs; Law Enforcement; Socioeconomic Status; Poverty; Risk; Correlation; Police; Longitudinal Studies; Minority Groups; Disproportionate Representation; Federal Programs + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gruppenzugehörigkeit; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Kriminalität; Interaktion; Jugendgerichtshilfe; Jugendbande; Gesetzesvollzug; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Armut; Risiko; Korrelation; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Ethnische Minderheit
Abstract	This study addresses the link between gang membership and arrest frequency, exploring the Gang x Socioeconomic status interaction on those arrests. Notoriously poor, delinquent, and often well-known to police, America's gang youth should have very high odds of arrest. Yet it is unclear whether mere membership in a gang increases the risk of arrest or whether it must be accompanied by high levels of delinquency to have an effect. There are surprisingly few tests of the arrest risk associated solely with group membership. The several studies that provide such a test have yielded mixed results. Revisiting this issue with longitudinal youth data for the nation, random effects Poisson models find main effects for gang membership and SES on arrest, controlling for demographic and legal items. However, interaction effects obtain paradoxical findings consistent with research on "out-of-place" effects for high-SES gang youth, and protective effects for low-SES gang youth. These findings are discussed in terms of their implications for labeling theory and the federal initiative on disproportionate minority contact (DMC) with the juvenile justice system. (Contains 1 figure, 3 tables, and 12 notes.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10