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Ethnic Identity and Offending Trajectories Among Mexican American Juvenile Offenders: Gang Membership and Psychosocial Maturity
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Ethnic Identity and Offending Trajectories Among Mexican American Juvenile Offenders: Gang Membership and Psychosocial Maturity

George P. Knight, Sandra H. Losoya, Young Il Cho, Laurie Chassin, Joanna Lee Williams and Sonia Cota-Robles
Journal of research on adolescence, v 22(4), pp 782-796
Dec 2012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-7795.2012.00819.x
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Abstract

Family Studies Psychology Psychology, Developmental Social Sciences
We examined the association of joint trajectories of ethnic identity and criminal offending to psychosocial maturity, gang membership, and Mexican American affiliation among 300 Mexican American male juvenile offenders from ages 14 to 22. There were two low-offending groups: one was the highest in ethnic identity and changing slightly with age and the other was the lowest in ethnic identity and stable with age. A third group displayed moderately declining offending and moderately stable ethnic identity. A fourth group displayed high-offending individuals with moderate, but increasing, levels of ethnic identity, who were initially lower in psychosocial maturity and more likely to be gang members. The findings highlight the need to contextualize theories of ethnic identity development.

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