TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Predicting involvement in prison gang activity: Street gang membership, social and psychological factors
JO  - Law and human behavior
A1  - Wood, Jane L.
A1  - Alleyne, Emma K. A.
A1  - Mozova, Katarina
A1  - James, Mark
SP  - 203
EP  - 211
VL  - 38
IS  - 3
N2  - The aim of this study was to examine whether street gang membership, psychological factors, and social factors such as preprison experiences could predict young offenders' involvement in prison gang activity. Data were collected via individual interviews with 188 young offenders held in a Young Offenders Institution in the United Kingdom. Results showed that psychological factors such as the value individuals attached to social status, a social dominance orientation, and antiauthority attitudes were important in predicting young offenders' involvement in prison gang activity. Further important predictors included preimprisonment events such as levels of threat, levels of individual delinquency, and levels of involvement in group crime. Longer current sentences also predicted involvement in prison gang activity. However, street gang membership was not an important predictor of involvement in prison gang activity. These findings have implications for identifying prisoners involved in prison gang activity and for considering the role of psychological factors and group processes in gang research. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0147-7307
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000053
ID  - ref1
ER  -