Youth gangs are a universal phenomenon attracting increasing attention; the criminal and
antisocial behavior perpetuated by youth gangs has an adverse impact on local …

This Campbell systematic review examines the predictors of youth gang membership in low‐
and middle‐income countries. The review summarises findings from eight reports from five …

This updated and expanded new edition continues the theme of the first edition of
emphasizing the substantial growth of street gangs throughout the world. Although a …

Walters provides a detailed description of how criminal thinking serves as a vital link
between criminality and crime. Criminality, the propensity to become involved in criminal …

Background Gang violence accounted for 20% of homicides in large cities from 2002 to
2006. Preventing gang affiliation (ie, youth who either desire or have gang membership) …

This paper asks what programmes and policies for preventing violent extremism (also called
'countering violent extremism', or CVE) can learn from the public health violence prevention …

Controlling for basic demographic variables, parental knowledge, prosocial peer
associations, and precursor measures of each outcome, the current study sought to compare …

This Campbell systematic review examines why the implementation of preventive
interventions to reduce youth involvement in gangs and gang crime may fail or succeed low …

This study compares the scope and nature of the gang problem in two communities: one in
the United States and one in Trinidad and Tobago, a small-island developing state in the …

In this study, the authors examine the prevalence of self-reported delinquency, drug use,
and gang membership among school-attending youth in nine English-speaking Caribbean …