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Gender Differences in the Relationship Between Gang Sex Composition, Organization and Offending: Understanding the Role of Behavioral and Psychological Embeddedness

Freitag, Melissa E
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1491390460994149

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2017, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Sociology.
Embeddedness within a gang has been linked to weakened ties to pro-social individuals and increased investment in the criminal group (Pyrooz, Sweeten, & Piquero, 2013). In the past, researchers have explored behavioral dimensions of embeddedness such as an individuals’ position in the gang but they haven’t looked at the psychosocial measure of connectedness. The data used for this research is from the first Wave of Gang Resistance Education and Training Program (GREAT Project). The current study expands prior research by examining both the behavioral and psychosocial dimensions of embeddedness, to explore the degree to which gang embeddedness differs for males and females, and how gang embeddedness for males and females varies by gang sex composition and gang organization. I also examined whether behavioral and psychosocial dimensions of gang embeddedness may mediate the relationship between gang sex composition and gang organization and offending for males and females. Mediation tests revealed that the relationships between sex composition and offending were mediated by both behavioral (place in the gang) and psychosocial (connectedness) dimensions of embeddedness though, the relationship was more strongly mediated by connectedness, the psychosocial dimension of embeddedness. Thus, the relationship was only partially mediated by the behavioral dimension of embeddedness (place in the gang). It was found that for both men and women higher levels of gang organization result in increased levels of offending behaviors. However, membership in mixed sex gangs only resulted in lower offending for men but not for women compared to majority male gangs.
Jorge Chavez, Dr. (Advisor)
Stephen Demuth, Dr. (Committee Member)
Monica Longmore, Dr. (Committee Member)
62 p.
Psychology; Sociology
gender; gang; sex composition; gang organization; offending; behavioral embeddedness; psychosocial embeddedness; embeddedness

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  • Freitag, M. E. (2017). Gender Differences in the Relationship Between Gang Sex Composition, Organization and Offending: Understanding the Role of Behavioral and Psychological Embeddedness [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1491390460994149

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Freitag, Melissa. Gender Differences in the Relationship Between Gang Sex Composition, Organization and Offending: Understanding the Role of Behavioral and Psychological Embeddedness. 2017. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1491390460994149.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Freitag, Melissa. "Gender Differences in the Relationship Between Gang Sex Composition, Organization and Offending: Understanding the Role of Behavioral and Psychological Embeddedness." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1491390460994149

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