You can review the previous articles from the series:
1- Balance Theory: Introduction.
2- Balance Theory: The First Beginnings.
3- Balance Theory Concept.
4- Graph Theory and Balance.
5- Social Balance Theory.
6- Balance Theory: The Situation in Egypt 1956.
7- Balance Theory: The Hungarian Case 1956.
8- Balance Theory: The Balance Between Nations.
9- Balance Theory: The Conflict in Syria 2011.
10- Balance Theory: NASCAR Races.
11- Balance Theory: Premier League.
In the next paragraphs we will present the Nakamura et al (2019) main discussion on the Balance Theory in gang violence as they indicates the following: Gang violence continues to be a problem affecting many communities in the United States and around the globe, and the current balance theory based approach can further help in the formulation of effective strategies aimed at reducing gang violence by identifying those gang conflicts that are most likely to escalate into violent acts. The following discussions are an important addition to the growing literature on social network and relational analysis of gang conflicts that ultimately aims to assist policy and program interventions to reduce gang violence. These discussions benefited from the presence of both positive and negative links in relations between gangs, and then the concepts of balance theory were reflected on them, by considering the positive link as the alliance between gangs, the negative link as the hostility between gangs, the empty link as the “absence of a relationship between gangs”, and it has been cooperated with the (Long Beach) Police Department in California to obtain data related to the network that identifies the rivalry and ally relationships among 40 known gangs in Long Beach.
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