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Youth Gangs and Youth Violence: Charting the Key Dimensions
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White, RD and Mason, RL, Youth Gangs and Youth Violence: Charting the Key Dimensions, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 39, (1) pp. 54-70. ISSN 0004-8658 (2006) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
This article examines issues surrounding the relationship between youth
gangs and violent behaviour by considering the complex definitional
and methodological problems surrounding these matters. By drawing upon
a recent survey of school students in Perth, Western Australia, it highlights
the importance of and need for developing increasingly sophisticated ways
of interpreting youth group formations and group activities. For example, a
distinction can be made between gangs and gang-related behaviour. The
importance of gang membership and nongang membership in shaping social
behaviour also needs to be acknowledged. We argue that most teenagers
appear to engage in very similar types of activities, including violence.
However, the intensity and dynamics of this behaviour varies greatly
depending upon the type of group membership in question.Typologies are
presented to show the differences in antisocial behaviour depending upon
gang or non-gang membership
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Research Division: | Law and Legal Studies |
Research Group: | Other law and legal studies |
Research Field: | Other law and legal studies not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Law, Politics and Community Services |
Objective Group: | Justice and the law |
Objective Field: | Justice and the law not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | White, RD (Professor Rob White) |
UTAS Author: | Mason, RL (Mr Ron Mason) |
ID Code: | 39347 |
Year Published: | 2006 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 27 |
Deposited By: | Sociology and Social Work |
Deposited On: | 2006-08-01 |
Last Modified: | 2009-07-13 |
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