Does gang membership pay?: Illegal and legal earnings through emerging adulthood

Gang membership is believed to impede success in the legitimate economic market while simultaneously supporting success in the illegal market. We extend the study of the economic effects of gang membership by using a within‐ and between‐individual analytic design, decomposing gang membership into mu...

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Main Author: Augustyn, Megan Bears (Author)
Contributors: McGloin, Jean Marie ; Pyrooz, David C.
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
In: Criminology
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Keywords:
Criminal capital
Earnings
Gangs
Multilevel structural equation model

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