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Gang Involvement - Subject Follow-up

This measure appears in the following time-points: Follow06, Follow12, Follow18, Follow24, Follow30, Follow36, Follow48, Follow60, Follow72, Follow84.

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Description of Measure

This measure includes a series of questions that assess the youth's gang involvement during the recall period. The questions are taken mainly from Thornberry, Lizotte, Krohn, Farnworth, and Jang, (1994) and Elliott (1990). If gang involvement is endorsed, additional items explore the youth's subjective experience of the gang (i.e. youth's position in the gang, the importance of the gang to the youth) and the cohesiveness of the gang (i.e. presence of identifying colors, rules of socialization).

We create a marker to indicate being involved in a gang during the recall period [S#GNGINV]; Gang Involvement.

The following individual items are also available:

The Resistance to Peer Influence measure contains additional items regarding the subject's peers. Refer to "Psychological Development" construct for more information about the peer influence measure.

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