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This document summarizes research on why youth join gangs. It discusses that gang membership provides both "pulls" like status and opportunities, and "pushes" like feeling marginalized and seeking identity and social relationships. Longitudinal studies have identified several risk factors for gang membership across different domains like community, family, school, peers, and individual attributes. The most important factors include low neighborhood attachment and social integration, family problems like pov
- Author
- Austin Wilson
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- EN