Corrigendum

Barnes J. C., Boutwell, B. B., & Fox, K. A. (2012). The Effect of Gang Membership on Victimization: A Behavioral Genetic Explanation. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 10(3), 227-244. Original DOI: 10.1177/1541204011429948.

A coding error in wave IV data was recently detected by Add Health researchers. The authors analyzed some of the variables affected by this error and, in the paper, reported that gang membership impacted wave IV victimization but genetic factors did not. When the coding error is corrected, the pattern of results changes so that genetic factors do influence wave IV victimization and gang membership does not. The corrected findings, organized by table and order of appearance in the text, are presented below.

In text, Measures section, the corrected victimization wave IV α = .73.

Table 1, the corrected victimization wave IV descriptive statistics are as follows:

Sibling 1: mean = .62, SD = 1.15, min = 0, max = 6

Sibling 2: mean = .61, SD = 1.12, min = 0, max = 6

Table 2, the corrected victimization wave IV correlations are as follows:

MZ Twins = .05

DZ Twins and Full Siblings = .08*

Half-siblings = −.11

Cousins = .21

Table 3, the corrected victimization wave IV ACE parameter estimates are as follows (95% confidence interval in parentheses):

A = .12 (.01−.23), C = .00 (.00−.00), E = .88 (.77−.99)

Table 4, the corrected victimization wave IV results are as follows:

Genetic influences: b = .14*, t = 2.20

Gang membership wave III: b = −.01, t = −.10

Victimization Wave II: b = .05*, t = 1.65

Age: b = .01, t = .28

Male: b = .13*, t = 2.12

Black: b = .23, t = .59