Abstract
Recent work suggests that the label “gang member” is an important contingency in the legal processing of juveniles. An event-history analysis of 1,916 court referrals for 257 Chicano boys indicates that gang membership does not have an independent impact on their rate of movement through the juvenile court system to various outcomes. However, the effects of school performance, prior record, offense characteristics, and complaint type on rates of movement to case disposition operate differently for gang and nongang youths. Although gang members are not subjected to direct discrimination these findings indicate that the gang identity affects the interpretation and influence of other personal, offense, and case factors in court processing.
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