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CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND BEHAVIOR
Volume 47, Issue 4, Pages 457-469Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0093854819897940
Keywords
trauma exposure; CU; gang involvement; racial or ethnic groups; justice-involved youth
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- University of Utah Graduate Diversity Scholar Fellowship
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship [1256065]
- National Institute of Justice [2014-R2-CX-0020]
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The current study examined the association between trauma exposure and gang involvement and whether these interrelations were explained by callous-unemotionality (CU). In addition, the current study examined whether the associations among these variables differed based on race or ethnicity. A sample of 829 justice-involved youth (74% boys, 45% participants of color) recruited from a detention center completed self-report measures of trauma exposure, CU, and gang involvement. A moderated mediation analysis indicated that CU helped explain the association between trauma exposure and gang involvement for non-Hispanic White participants only. In contrast, the direct association between trauma exposure and gang involvement was significant across racial or ethnic groups. These findings highlight the importance of a trauma-informed perspective on intervening and preventing gang involvement among youth.
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