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Gang Involvement - Subject Release

This measure appears in the following time-points: Release.

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Description of Measure

This measure includes a series of questions that assess the youth's gang involvement both within the institution/program and prior to coming to placement. The questions are taken mainly from Thornberry, Lizotte, Krohn, Farnworth, and Jang, (1994) and Elliott (1990). If gang involvement prior to coming to placement is endorsed, additional items explore the presence and the subject's continued participation of that gang within the institution/program.

The following individual items are available:

One item in this measure ("any gangs at the institution/program") was used in the development of the eight dimensions of organizational functioning. A full description of the dimensions can be found in the "Dimensions of Organizational Functioning" codebook section.

Data Issues

In order to protect the confidential nature of the subject responses, the specific gang names have been converted to a unique number. In instances where the same gang name appears in both sites (e.g., Bloods), the same unique number is assigned to the gang, with PA codes ending with a 1, and AZ codes ending with a 2 to distinguish the sites.

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