SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 79
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- Research on gangs in Honduras has shed some light on factors that lead adolescents to join or leave a gang. Joining a gang is more likely for a young person whose parents are absent for economic reasons, including as a result of migration, and for whom no other authority figure has stepped in. In one group studied, gang members who had lost their parents saw the gang as a replacement family. In another group, gang members were far more driven by financial reasons, regarding the leader as the boss of the business. Overall, the most common reasons for leaving the gang were the birth of a first child, concern about damage being caused to family members, the opportunity to move to a different neighbourhood, commitment to the community and having a spiritual experience.
- Status juridique
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Adolescents
- Children
- Families
- Youth
- Année
- 2015
- Type de paragraphe
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 79
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