Authors: David C. Pyrooz, Scott H. Decker, Vincent J. Webb

Title: The Ties That Bind Desistance From Gangs

This study focuses on Gang members and their desistance from the gang. This journal three processes during this research which are onset, persistence, and desistance. So, the research question for this journal is “How can we get members to desist from gang life to lower victimization and delinquency?”.  These authors believe that when people are in a gang they tend to commit more crimes so they wanted to figure out why gang members desisted from a gang. The type of data used in this article is Report of acts, behaviors, and events. They asked the people “currently in a gang” or “ever been a gang member”. So, these people had to report their actions whether they were in a gang. Out of all the people they asked which were 239 individuals. 153 of them said they were currently in a gang and 83 of them said they were former gang members. The data gathering method they used was Public records. They got their data from Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM). ADAM got their data from a juvenile detention facility. The arrestees were interviewed within 48 hours of booking. This sample better reflected the streets because they were interviewed so early in the process so they had just come from the streets.  I think this research overall is great they start with a topic and turn it into a research question and they get data to see if they can answer their research question. It shows me a way that I can do my research project because my research question is like this one.  I want to do something similar but I’m sure I’ll get different results.