RT Article
T1 Internationalizing the study of gang membership: validation issues from Latin America
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 57
IS 5
SP 1165
OP 1184
A1 Rodríguez, Juan A. 1973-
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1564965996
AB 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).
K1 Gang membership
K1 Self-report study
K1 Validity
K1 Latin America
K1 Gangmitgliedschaft
K1 Latein Amerika
DO 10.1093/bjc/azw058