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How can I make notes with bullet points in this paragraph? The consequences of being in a gang are dire. Gang membership results in changes in emotions, attitudes, and lessened social controls (Melde & Esbensen, 2011) which in turn, facilitates delinquent behavior, violence, and drug use (Gatti et al., 2005; Snyder & Sickmund, 2006) and promotes continued serious offending in young adult hood (Stouthamer-Loeber et al., 2004). It increases the likelihood that gang members will be victims of violence (Taylor et al., 2007) and suffer psychological distress (Li et al., 2002). Gangs can harm members in more subtle ways as well, cutting them off from people and opportunities that could help them with the transition to adulthood and disrupting their lives even after they have moved beyond the gang. Young adults who have been in gangs are more likely to end their education prematurely, have children early, suffer poorer general health, abuse drugs more, fail to establish stable work lives and more likely to be on welfare-all of which are associated with an increased likelihood of being arrested as adults (Gilman et al., 2014; Snyder & Sickmund, 2006). To illustrate, youth who joined gangs were 30 percent less likely to graduate from high school and 58 percent less likely to earn a four-year degree than their nongang members (Pyrooz, 2013). Need Assignment Help?