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Preventing youth gang involvement is imperative from a multi-disciplinary perspective to reduce short and long- term negative outcomes for adolescents and society overall. Gang involvement for youth has a significant negative impact on their family, friends, and communities, and often leads towards premature death. Gangs are typically defined as having the following characteristics: 22
• Formal organizational structure • Identifiable leadership
• Identified territory • Frequent interaction • Involvement in serious or violent behavior. • Formalized rules • Identifying symbols • Three or more individuals • An identifiable name 23
Youth gangs are defined by a group of youth and young adults whose involvement in illegal activities over a sustained period of time marks them as different from other youthful groups, as labelled by both them and in the view of the community and police. Identifiers specifically include committing crimes together, having a name, displaying common colors or symbols, hanging out frequently together, claiming specific territory and the aspect of having a leader. 24
22 Definition of a gang (2024) 23 What is a gang? (2024) 24 The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society (2024)
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