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REDUCING GANG INVOLVEMENT THROUGH EMPLOYMENT: A PILOT
INTERVENTION
by
Dawn Delfin McDaniel
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(PSYCHOLOGY)
August 2010
Copyright 2010 Dawn Delfin McDaniel
Object Description
| Title | Reducing gang involvement through employment: a pilot intervention |
| Author | McDaniel, Dawn Delfin |
| Author email | dawn.mcdaniel@gmail.com; ddmcdani@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Psychology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2010-04-05 |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2010-07-20 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Huey, Stanley, Jr. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Margolin, Gayla Schwartz, David Farver, Joann Schneiderman, Janet |
| Abstract | Gang-related activity exacts a heavy toll in terms of morbidity and mortality, law enforcement and corrections resources, and quality of life. Previous intervention efforts to reduce gang involvement have had negligible effects, and current knowledge about the processes that redirect youth away from gangs is limited. This dissertation attempts to contribute to our understanding of gang-related treatment process by examining the relationship between employment and gang involvement within the context of a pilot employment-focused intervention for gang-involved youth. A sample of 27 gang-involved, juvenile offenders were recruited from the Los Angeles Department of Probation and randomly assigned to either the Behavioral Employment Program (BEP) or usual probation services (US). Both within-subjects analyses (i.e., pooled time series) and between-subjects analyses (i.e., multiple regression) examined the impact of BEP-initiated employment on gang involvement. Increased employment was significantly related to reductions in gang involvement for within- and between-subjects analyses. Although no association between treatment condition and increased employment was found, BEP led to marginally significant reductions in gang involvement at 6-months post-entry. Employment programs for gang-involved youth are common in community settings, although empirical support for such programs is rare. Results from this study offer initial support for BEP and the continued use of employment as a strategy to reduce gang involvement. Confirmation of these promising findings will require future research with larger samples. |
| Keyword | employment; work; jobs; treatment; intervention; program; gangs; gang-involved; youth; Behavioral Employment Program; probationers; Los Angeles; Department of Probation; juvenile offenders |
| Geographic subject (county) | Los Angeles |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Coverage date | 2007/2010 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3198 |
| Rights | McDaniel, Dawn Delfin |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-McDaniel-3870 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume40/etd-McDaniel-3870.pdf |
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| Full text | REDUCING GANG INVOLVEMENT THROUGH EMPLOYMENT: A PILOT INTERVENTION by Dawn Delfin McDaniel A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PSYCHOLOGY) August 2010 Copyright 2010 Dawn Delfin McDaniel |
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