Youth Gang Involvement & Incarceration
Read through any of the following resources. Look for information related to demographic information (race, gender, etc.), risk factors, protective factors, and negative developmental outcomes.
Youth Confinement: The Whole Pie 2019 : https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/youth2019.html
Youth Incarceration Stats: https://www.childtrends.org/indicators/juvenile-detention
Gang Involvement Prevention (also see menu on the right including federal stats): https://youth.gov/youth-topics/preventing-gang-involvement
National Gang Center – Statistics (note: data is only up until 2011): https://nationalgangcenter.ojp.gov/survey-analysis/demographics
Journal article: Youth gang involvement (Estrada et al., 2018). Consider after reading this article, no need to write down ( What are risk and protective factors at school in relation to gang involvement?
What role do peer influences play in gang involvement?
What family factors influence youth gang involvement? community factors?)
WRITE (does not need to exceed one page.):
Identify 3 points you found interesting or surprising (what confirmed what you knew; what is new). What remaining questions do you have?
Reflect on: What systemic factors contribute to these statistics?
What needs to be done (in terms of policy, programming, early intervention, prevention, etc.) to make changes?
