Hispanic and Anglo gang membership in two southwestern cities |
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| Institution: | 1. Criminal Justice Department, MSC 3487, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001, USA;2. Arizona State University West, Phoenix, AZ, USA;3. University of Nebraska-Omaha at Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA;1. CMES, University of Petroleum Energy Studies, Dehradun 248007, India;2. New Era Solar Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Ex-Solar Plant Head- BHEL, India;1. University of the Western Cape, Department of Physics, Robert Sobukwe Rd, Bellville, Cape Town 7535, South Africa;2. UNESCO-UNISA Africa Chair in Nanosciences/Nanotechnology, College of Graduate Studies, University of South Africa (UNISA), Muckleneuk Ridge, P O Box 392, Pretoria, South Africa;3. iThemba LABS-National Research Foundation, 1 Old Faure Road, Somerset West 7129, PO Box 722, Somerset West, Western Cape Province, South Africa;4. Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Faculty of Science, Department of Maths and Physics, P O Box 1906, Bellville, Cape town 7535, South Africa;1. Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Wrocław, Pl. Maksa Borna 9, Pl-50-204 Wrocław, Poland;2. ENEA, Fusion and Nuclear Safety Department, C.R. Frascati - Via E. Fermi, 45 (00044) Frascati (Roma), Italy;3. Physics Department, “Sapienza” University of Rome, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 (Roma), Italy |
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| Abstract: | Delinquent gangs have attracted the attention of social scientists for most of the twentieth century. The current study presents a systematic comparison of the gang-related attitudes and behavior of youths living in cities of dramatically differing size but subjected to similar cultural forces. Specifically, we explored the attitudes and orientations of gang and nongang eighth grade students living in two southwestern cities with large pluralities of Mexican Americans: Phoenix, Arizona, and Las Cruces, New Mexico. While statistical comparisons supported the position that the Phoenix children expressed higher levels of pro-gang attitudes, there did not appear to be significant differences in self-reported gang membership. Hispanic youths in both cities were not only more pro-gang in their attitudes and orientations, but they reported higher levels of gang membership. However, multivariate analyses reveal that a far more complex set of forces is at work. |
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