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  • Forensic Psychology

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  • Gang affiliation is a known risk factor for criminal offending.
  • The mediating role of behavioral disorders in the gang-offending relationship is understudied.
  • Understanding these dynamics is crucial for effective offender management and rehabilitation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether behavioral disorders mediate the relationship between gang status and offending.
  • To examine the predictive power of gang variables on severe offending in correctional populations.
  • To identify specific gang affiliations that predict prison misconduct.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized negative binomial regression and ROC-AUC models.
  • Analyzed data from a near-population sample of federal supervised release clients.
  • Assessed the influence of behavioral disorders on the association between gang status and offending.

Main Results:

  • Gang variables, except for security threat group status, lost significance in predicting severe offending when behavioral disorders were included.
  • Behavioral disorders substantially weakened or eliminated the predictive power of general gang status.
  • Security threat group status remained a robust predictor of prison misconduct.

Conclusions:

  • Behavioral disorders play a significant mediating role in the gang-offending relationship.
  • Future gang research should incorporate the psychopathology of gang members.
  • Interventions for gang-involved offenders should address co-occurring behavioral disorders.