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Issues in the Production and Dissemination of Gang Statistics: an Ethnographic Study of a Large Midwestern Police Gang Unit

Charles M. Katz

Arizona State University West

Although there has been a great deal of public debate concerning matters related to gang data, there has been little research investigating the process by which these data are collected and disseminated. This article uses a multimethodological approach to explore the issues in the production and dissemination of gang statistics in one midwestern gang unit. Unlike previous research examining gang data, the findings of this study did not reveal that the production of gang statistics was influenced, or manipulated, for the benefit of the police organization. Instead, the construction of gang statistics was influenced by serious abnormalities in internal information processing. Gang statistics were not found to be the product of the application of official definitions, or even informal definitions but rather were the product of inadequate communication within the gang unit and between the gang unit and its operating environment.

Key Words: police • data • gang • statistics

Crime & Delinquency, Vol. 49, No. 3, 485-516 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0011128703049003007
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