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4 J. Res. Crime & Delinquency 1 (1967)

handle is hein.journals/jrcd4 and id is 1 raw text is: Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency VOLUME 4 JANUARY 1967 NUMBER I Introduction* JAMES F. SHORT, JR. T HIS ISSUE BRINGS TOGETHER a num- ber of articles on juvenile gangs and gang delinquency. The focus is not new, either for social scientists or for the general public. It seems clear, however, that there are many unre- solved descriptive problems concern- ing facts our theories must fit, to adopt Albert Cohen's felicitous phras- ing, and that our theorizing has outrun the basic data necessary for testing and modification of theory, both for improvement of the body of knowledge and for intelligent appli- cation of this knowledge in the form of social policy. When David Twain first asked me to edit this issue of the Journal, we discussed the focus it should have. Should it be theoretical or empirical, or both? Several excellent contribu- tions of theoretical and empirical sig- nificance have been made in recent years. In the end we decided to assess the status of current theoretical con- troversies and relevant empirical efforts and then focus on newly emerg- ing empirical studies. * My special thanks to David Twain, who first approached me concerning this special Journal of Research in Crime and Delin- quency issue and who helped in numerous ways to bring it about, and to Mrs. Nada Beth Glick, director of the Information Center on Crime and Delinquency, for her patience in dealing with its many problems. I Articles by Dale G. Hardman and LaMar T. Empey begin the issue. Both place the study of delinquent gangs in historical and analytic per- spective-Hardman mostly through historical analysis and Empey through discussion of controversial is- sues and lacunae in the body of knowledge. The picture that emerges is more complex than the theoretical models suggest, closer to reality, cer- tainly more closely related to the gen- eral body of behavioral science, and more likely to be cumulative. Muzafer and Carolyn Sherif con- tribute the third article, Group Proc- esses and Collective Interaction in Delinquent Activities. Their own vast research experience and ac- quaintance with the work of others enable them to address such funda- mental problems as the nature of and reasons for group formation and col- lective interaction, the significance of adolescent reference groups, and the impact of societal and cultural set- tings on groups. Following these survey-type arti- cles, papers from three recent theoret- ically based research programs ad- dress a variety of important issues which have emerged from the work of Cohen, Miller,2 Cloward and I Albert K. Cohen, Delinquent Boys (Glen- coe: Free Press, 1955).

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