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Gang Membership and Pathways to Maladaptive Parenting
Author(s) -
Augustyn Megan Bears,
Thornberry Terence P.,
Krohn Marvin D.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of research on adolescence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.342
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1532-7795
pISSN - 1050-8392
DOI - 10.1111/jora.12110
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , style (visual arts) , social psychology , archaeology , history
A limited amount of research examines the short‐term consequences of gang membership. Rarer, though, is the examination of more distal consequences of gang membership. This is unfortunate because it understates the true detrimental effect of gang membership across the life course, as well as the effects it may have on children of former gang members. Using data from the R ochester Y outh D evelopment S tudy, this work investigates the impact of gang membership in adolescence (ages 12–18) on a particularly problematic style of parenting, child maltreatment. Using discrete time survival analysis, this study finds that gang membership increases the likelihood of child maltreatment and this relationship is mediated by the more proximal outcomes of gang membership during adolescence, precocious transitions to adulthood.