SOCC30H3 Lecture Notes - Property Crime
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Defining gangs is not an easy task what tanner and scot did in their survey was to ask youth to define gangs themselves, what is their involvement past or present. Table one: belong to gang in their lifetime. Most hs students were never a gang member 88. 9% Street youth has a bit of a higher percentage: former gang members 10. 4% and current 16. 4% Studies do not focus on what gangs" do, how they define themselves. Tanner et al. asked them when you were in a gang, did/do you do _____? . Party/clubbing: not that not all of these things are necessarily illegal or criminal behaviour. The criminal behaviour is the division between social crime and _____ 31% are reclassified as social gang members linking self definition as a gang member in comparison to the behaviours that they classify as gang activity. Table 4: engagement of criminal activity, by type of gang involvement.
