NCJ Number
147854
Date Published
1973
Length
164 pages
Annotation
This study attempts to determine some of the factors that cause inner-city youngsters to participate in violent gang conflict and the effect of that participation on school progress. In addition, the author studies the development of viable programs that will help to eliminate the youthful violence and be useful to those who want to succeed in school.
Abstract
In addition to attempting to ascertain the factors that influence violent antisocial behavior by gang members, the author examines the dominant role the school inadvertently plays in influencing these youths in the perpetuation of their violent activities. The purposes of the study are to: (1) determine the norms of a violent juvenile gang in an inner-city community; (2) ascertain how a gang rewards its members for meeting these norms; (3) discover how a gang sanctions its members for not meeting the norms; (4) determine how much control leaders have over members because of the reward system; (5) determine under what conditions gang norms may be violated without sanctions; and (6) explain the relationship of the violent juvenile gang members to school in an inner-city. Footnotes, selected bibliography, appendixes