NDLI: Partying, Cruising, and Hanging in the Streets: Gangs, Routine Activities, and Delinquency and Violence in Chicago, 1959

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Author	Hughes, Lorine A. Short, James F.
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	Examine relationships between routine activities, character contests in the form of “signifying,” and general delinquency and fighting in a street gang context.Samejima’s (Estimation of latent ability using a response pattern of graded scores. Psychometrika monograph supplement 17. Psychometric Society, Richmond, VA, Retrieved 10 Aug 2011, from http://www.psychometrika.org/journal/online/MN17.pdf , 1969) graded response models and multilevel ordinal logistic regression models are estimated using data from Short and Strodtbeck (Group process and gang delinquency. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1965) study of street gangs in Chicago, 1959–1962. The primary sample consists of 490 boys representing 10 black gangs, 4 white gangs, 9 black lower-class groups, 4 white lower-class groups, 2 black middle-class groups, and 2 white middle-class groups.Unstructured and unsupervised socializing with peers significantly increased the likelihood of delinquency among the boys and explained a significant portion of the group-level gang effect. In addition, the more time the boys spent hanging in the streets and attending parties, the more likely they were to participate in signifying, which, in turn, increased their risk of fighting.Findings provide evidence that gangs contribute to delinquency partly through their effect on the routine activities of members. Findings also suggest that signifying is an important mechanism by which unstructured and unsupervised socializing with peers leads to violence.
Starting Page	415
Ending Page	451
Page Count	37
File Format	PDF
ISSN	07484518
Journal	Journal of Quantitative Criminology
Volume Number	30
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15737799
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2013-09-18
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Routine activity theory Unstructured and unsupervised socializing Gangs Delinquency Signifying Criminology & Criminal Justice Sociology Methodology of the Social Sciences Statistics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Law Pathology and Forensic Medicine

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