The Youth Gangs, Drugs, and Violence Connection

• Author(s): James C. Howell and Scott H. Decker
• Date Published: 1999
• Length: 12 pages
• Publication Series: About Gangs, Crime and Violence, Gangs, Drugs, and Guns, Youth
• Publication Type: Publication

Description

This bulletin addresses questions about the interrelatedness of youth gangs, drugs, and violent crime, discussing whether drug trafficking is a main cause of violence in youth gangs. or only a correlate, and noting whether there are other important sources of gang violence.