Exceptional mortality risk among police-identified young black male gang members.

ABSTRACT: Gang membership is associated with many risky behaviors but is often overlooked as a source of mortality among young Americans. Gang Member-Linked Mortality Files (GM-LMFs) match St. Louis, Missouri gang members listed in a law enforcement gang database to mortality records in the National Death Index. We created three analytic samples composed of black males aged 15-35 years by merging cases of the GM-LMFs with National Vital Statistics System and Census data in years 1993-2016. Mortality rates standardized to the 15-35-year-old 2010 U.S. male population were estimated for all-cause (1477.4, 99% CI = 1451.5-1503.3), homicide (950.1, 99% CI = 932.2-967.9), non-homicide injury (314.0, 99% CI = 308.8-319.2), and non-injury (213.3, 99% CI = 202.3-224.4) deaths in the GM-LMFs. We fitted Poisso

SUBMITTER: Pyrooz DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7704767 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature