Toward an Understanding of Youth Gang Involvement

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Peterson ◽  
Kirstin A. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Youth Gang ◽  
Gang Involvement

scholarly journals Is Trauma a Social Phenomenon That Leads to Gang Involvement?

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Morgan Leksen
Keyword(s):  
Social Institutions ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Youth Gang ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Gang Involvement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Need For Support ◽  
Life Path ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Societal Responsibility

This paper examines the effects of trauma on youth gang involvement. It focuses on the repercussions that trauma can have on youth, which may result in them looking for like-minded adolescents who are in gangs. The need for support can stem from the reoccurring trauma that the individuals face at an early age and the gang can appear as a safe haven from their lives. This paper argues that the experiences of direct and indirect trauma can put these adolescents on a different life path compared to their peers. Youth need to be actively supported in their families and in the education system in order to succeed. The way society reacts and responds to adolescents who are experiencing trauma will set the tone on how they develop in the future. These youth should be seen as a societal responsibility, and when they are left behind or fall through the cracks of certain social institutions, it should be seen as a failure by the social system and not the individual being seen as a failure. Because of these failures, trauma is a social phenomenon that can lead to youth gang involvement.

scholarly journals Opportunities Provision for Preventing Youth Gang Involvement for Children and Young People (7‐16)

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herrick Fisher ◽  
Paul Montgomery ◽  
Frances Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Youth Gang ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Gang Involvement

scholarly journals Vietnamese Youth Gang Involvement

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phelan A. Wyrick ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Youth Gang ◽  
Gang Involvement

scholarly journals Aboriginal Youth Gangs: Preventative Approaches

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-160
Author(s):  
Jane P. Preston ◽  
Sheila Carr-Stewart ◽  
Charlene Northwest
Keyword(s):  
Role Models ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Community Programs ◽  
Youth Gangs ◽  
Youth Gang ◽  
Aboriginal Youth ◽  
Negative Thinking ◽  
Gang Involvement ◽  
Personal Challenges

The purpose of this article is to describe programs and strategies dissuasive of Aboriginal youth gang involvement. Individual approaches target areas such as antisocial behavior, personal challenges, and negative thinking patterns. Family-orientated approaches reaffirm family values as a means to deter youth from gang association. Providing positive opportunities for youth to interact with community role models and to partake in community programs are also dissuasive to the proliferation of Aboriginal youth gangs. Although information herein is intended to tackle Aboriginal youth gang issues, it can also be useful in addressing peripheral social issues within communities, in general.

scholarly journals Aboriginal Youth Gangs in Canada: (de)constructing an epidemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raven Sinclair ◽  
Jana Grekul
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Significant Risk ◽  
Significant Risk Factor ◽  
Complex Interaction ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Youth Gangs ◽  
Youth Gang ◽  
Aboriginal Youth ◽  
Gang Involvement

The literature on gang activity in Canada indicates a proliferation of Aboriginal youth gangs, and the research tells us that child welfare involvement is a significant risk factor for gang participation. This article examines the child welfare and youth gang literature, and analyzes the complex interaction of structural factors facing Aboriginal youth in Canada in order to contextualize youth gang involvement within the larger system of social distress facing Aboriginal people. This paper scrutinizes the veracity of youth gang statistics and interrogates the Aboriginal youth gang discourse to discover that, although a problem clearly exists, the scope and substance of the situation in Canada needs to be more thoroughly researched in order to be accurately portrayed.

Forensic Psychological Perspectives on Youth Gang Involvement in Juvenile Fire Setting and Bomb Making Weapons Cases

2016 ◽  
pp. 80-100
Author(s):  
Ronn Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Gang Members ◽  
Youth Gang ◽  
Gang Involvement ◽  
Fire Setting

The purpose of this chapter is to explore issues related to gang-affiliated youth's use of JFSB behavior as a weapon. Too often, the critical analysis of JFSB is circumscribed to the act with little or no consideration of a clinical forensic weapons use motivation. In this case, successful efforts to identify and isolate the origins of such events are more contingent upon a deeper understanding of the subtle processes that explain this particular kind of weapons use by juvenile gang members.

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