Group Process and Gang Deliquency /
James F. Short, Jr. and Fred L. Strodtbeck
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, c1974
- xxv, 287 pages ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1. Delinquent subculture, groups, and research designs -- Chapter 2. A strategy for utilizing research dilemmas: a case from the study of parenthood in a street-corner gang -- Chapter 3. Values and gang delinquency: a study of street-corner groups -- Chapter 4. Behavior dimensions of gang delinquency -- Chapter 5. Racial differentials in gang behavior: an interpretation -- Chapter 6. The analysis of self-descriptions by members of delinquent gangs -- Chapter 7. Self-description and delinquent behavior -- Chapter 8. The response of gang leaders to status threats: an observation on group process and delinquent behavior -- Chapter 9. Sources of threat, group norms, and gang deliquency -- Chapter 10. Explorations of social disability, class, and gang status.
The publication of this set of our completed papers does not represent a termination of the enterprise: many aspects of the perspective of the book continue to develop in the thinking and subsequent research of both of the authors.