1. The Analysis of Self-Descriptions by Members of Delinquent Gangs.
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Strodtbeck, Fred L., Short,Jr, James F., and Kolegar, Ellen
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GANGS ,JUVENILE offenders ,JUVENILE delinquency ,GANG members - Abstract
The primary data for this paper, the self-descriptions of respondents from a delinquent gang of Negro boys, were obtained in a Chicago Park District field house. The boys lived in an adjacent public housing project and hung on the corner near the field house and in the playground. The data were collected by a Youth Studies Program staff member who had spent a number of days as an observer of the gang. He was assisted by the gang's detached worker. Following administration of the questionnaire to the gang boys, these men joined efforts and located 23 non-gang boys of similar ages, who also lived in the same project, to serve as control subjects. Administration required about an hour and a half; the paired comparison instrument in which we are primarily interested, about 20 minutes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1962
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