National Youth Gang Survey Analysis
Introduction
Since 1996, the National Youth Gang Center (NYGC) has conducted an annual survey of law enforcement agencies to assess the extent of gang problems by measuring the presence, characteristics, and behaviors of local gangs in jurisdictions throughout the United States. The National Youth Gang Survey (NYGS) is based on a nationally representative sample of law enforcement agencies serving larger cities, suburban counties, smaller cities, and rural counties. This Web resource contains analysis and findings from the ongoing National Youth Gang Surveys. Numerous charts and descriptions are provided as a resource for understanding gang problems.
Standard questions asked each year include the following in these charts: the presence or absence of gang activity, the number of gangs and gang members, the number of homicides involving gangs, and the assessment of the gang problem from the previous year.
Other questions asked are also included in these charts; however, these questions are asked intermittently and not every survey year. The questions include year of gang onset, demographic characteristics of gang members, gang unit operation, gang-member migration patterns, gang-related offenses, definitional characteristics of a gang, and designations of gang membership.
Contents
Methodology
Prevalence of Gang Problems
- Prevalence of Gang Problems in Study Population
- Prevalence of Gang Problems by Area Type
- Percent Change in Estimated Number of Gang-Problem Jurisdictions
- Percentage of Law Enforcement Agencies Reporting Gang Problems
Defining Gangs and Designating Gang Membership
Gang-Problem Onset
Gang-Problem Assessment Trend
Measuring the Extent of Gang Problems
- Estimated Number of Gangs
- Distribution of Gangs by Area Type
- Number of Gangs
- Percent Change in Estimated Number of Gangs
- Estimated Number of Gang Members
- Distribution of Gang Members by Area Type
- Number of Gang Members
- Percent Change in Estimated Number of Gang Members
- Number of Gang-Related Homicides
Gang-Member Migration
Demographics
- Age of Gang Members
- Age of Gang Members by Area Type
- Gender of Gang Members
- Gangs With Female Members
- Race/Ethnicity of Gang Members
- Race/Ethnicity of Gang Members by Area Type
Gang-Related Offenses
- Gang-Related Crime
- Factors Influencing Gang-Related Violence
- Regularly Record Any Criminal Offense as "Gang-Related"
Gang Units
Suggested citation: National Youth Gang Center (2009). National Youth Gang Survey Analysis. Retrieved [date] from http://www.iir.com/nygc/nygsa/
