Endnotes

1. A more detailed description of the characteristics of the study participants and the methods used to select them can be found in Loeber and colleagues (1998).

2. Youth who are not members of delinquent gangs report involvement in “gang or group fights,” in which groups of youth fight each other. This Bulletin uses the term “gang fights” in a generic sense; participation in a gang fight does not necessarily imply membership in a delinquent gang.



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Juvenile Delinquency and Serious Injury Victimization Juvenile Justice Bulletin August 2001