@article{ref1,
title="Gang influence: mediating the gang-delinquency relationship with proactive criminal thinking",
journal="Criminal justice and behavior",
year="2019",
author="Walters, Glenn D.",
volume="46",
number="7",
pages="1044-1062",
abstract="Controlling for basic demographic variables, parental knowledge, prosocial peer associations, and precursor measures of each outcome, the current study sought to compare two putative intervening mechanisms for the gang affiliation-participant delinquency relationship: a social learning mechanism (proactive criminal thinking) and a self-control mechanism (reactive criminal thinking). The two mechanisms were explored in 3,136 (1,519 male, 1,612 female) early adolescents (mean age = 12.14 years) from the Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) study. A three-wave path analysis of Waves 1 to 3 of the G.R.E.A.T. study revealed a significant social learning pathway (gang affiliation → proactive criminal thinking → delinquency) and a nonsignificant self-control pathway (gang affiliation → reactive criminal thinking → delinquency). These findings were then replicated using data from Waves 4 to 6. From these results, it is concluded that gang affiliation may increase future delinquency by providing youth with increased opportunities to learn proactive criminal thinking.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0093-8548",
doi="10.1177/0093854819831741",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854819831741"
}