The Social Outcomes of Street Gang Involvement

Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

JCPR Working Papers from Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research

Abstract: In this article, we report results from a study designed to address the link between early, adolescent exposure to corporate gang activity, and later criminal justice, economic, and social outcomes. Our research study incorporates a multi-methodological, longitudinal framework in order to compare the social and behavioral outcomes of young people with active gang involvement and their non-gang affiliated counterparts. Our sample is taken from a concentrated poor, predominantly African-American community that has had a street gang presence for nearly four decades. With these data, we are able to analyze some questions that have not been previously addressed regarding the consequence of early involvement in corporate gang activity. Ideally, a comparison of non-gang and gang-affiliated persons would be best addressed by a prospective study that followed individuals over time; this retrospective-based research design of one urban poor neighborhood makes some key advances in our knowledge of future impacts of gang involvement, but it must be supplemented by other prospective, multi-methodological longitudinal research studies.

Date: 2001-12-13
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