London Gang

Post date: Aug 19, 2016 12:43:57 PM

DESCRIPTION: Data is on co-offending in a London-based inner-city street gang, 2005-2009, operating from a social housing estate. Data comes from anonymised police arrest and conviction data for ‘all confirmed’ members of the gang.

DATA FORMAT: UCINET, .csv

DATA: 1-Mode matrix 54 x 54 persons by persons, undirected, valued.

Network tie values:

= 1 (hang out together)

= 2 (co-offend together)

= 3 (co-offend together, serious crime)

= 4 (co-offend together, serious crime, kin)

Attributes: Age, Birthplace (1 = West Africa, 2= Caribbean, 3= UK, 4= East Africa), Residence, Arrests, Convictions, Prison, Music.

CITATION: Grund, T. and Densley, J. (2015) Ethnic Homophily and Triad Closure: Mapping Internal Gang Structure Using Exponential Random Graph Models. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Vol. 31, Issue 3, pp. 354-370

Grund, T. and Densley, J. (2012) Ethnic Heterogeneity in the Activity and Structure of a Black Street Gang. European Journal of Criminology, Vol. 9, Issue 3, pp. 388-406.

SOURCE: Available from Manchester.

KEYWORDS: Gangs, criminal, London, United Kingdom