Correlates of gang involvement and health-related factors among African American females with a detention history

Dexter R. Voisin, Kelly M. King, Ralph J. Diclemente and Monique Carry

Children and Youth Services Review, 2014, vol. 44, issue C, 120-125

Abstract: Prior studies have assessed relationships between gang membership and health-related factors. However, the existing literature has largely failed to consider how individual and broader social contextual factors might be related to such gang involvement among African American females. Thus, the aim of the present study was to identify empirically driven correlates of gang involvement and then better understand the relationship between gang membership and health-related behaviors for African American females, after controlling for covariates of gang involvement.

Keywords: gang involved; psychocontextual factors; health-related factors; detained girls (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2014.05.001

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