Parental monitoring reduces risk of teens joining gangs

Coping skills and parental supervision can help to reduce the appeal for teenagers of joining a gang.

US research published in Injury Prevention found youngsters between the ages of 14-18 years were most at  risk of being involved in violence if they lived in areas with serious levels of crime and deprevation.

Moderate parental monitoring was found to be the strongest method of preventing teenagers joining gangs.