title: Gang Membership and Pathways to Maladaptive Parenting.
abstract: A limited amount of research examines the short-term consequences of gang membership. Rarer, though, is the examination of more distal consequences of gang membership. This is unfortunate because it understates the true detrimental effect of gang membership across the life course, as well as the effects it may have on children of former gang members. Using data from the Rochester Youth Development Study, this work investigates the impact of gang membership in adolescence (ages 12-18) on a particularly problematic style of parenting, child maltreatment. Using discrete time survival analysis, this study finds that gang membership increases the likelihood of child maltreatment and this relationship is mediated by the more proximal outcomes of gang membership during adolescence, precocious transitions to adulthood.
authors.affiliation: Department of Criminal Justice, DB 4.220, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78207, 210.458.2976.
authors.forename: Megan Bears
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Augustyn
authors.affiliation: Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2220 LeFrak Hall, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, 301.405.3008.
authors.forename: Terence P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Thornberry
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law, 3219 Turlington Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 23611, 352.294.7178.
authors.forename: Marvin D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Krohn
keywords: Gang Membership; Life Course; Maltreatment; Precocious Transitions