Internationalizing the study of gang membership: Validation issues from Latin America

Juan Antonio Rodríguez; Neelie Pérez Santiago; Christopher H. Birkbeck; Freddy Crespo; Solbey Morillo

doi:10.1093/bjc/azw058

Internationalizing the study of gang membership: Validation issues from Latin America

Juan Antonio Rodríguez, Neelie Pérez Santiago, Christopher H. Birkbeck, Freddy Crespo, Solbey Morillo

Grupo de Investigación en Educación, Sociedad y Paz

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Developing valid measures of gang membership for self-report surveys is a challenging task in comparative cross-national research. In this article, we use the Venezuelan case to assess the validity of the Eurogang indicators of gang membership. Based on focus groups with adolescents and the results from two sweeps of the International Self-Report Survey of Juvenile Delinquency, we identify problems in the content and construct validities of the Eurogang items. We propose an alternative set of measures for cross-national studies of gang membership, focusing on a group's reputation for violence (or broader criminal behaviour).

Idioma original	Inglés estadounidense
Páginas (desde-hasta)	1 - 20,
Publicación	British Journal of Criminology
Volumen	1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azw058 https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azw058
Estado	Publicada - 1 ene. 2016

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