Gabriel 'Joey' Merrin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

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Gabriel 'Joey' Merrin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Gabriel ("Joey") Merrin, a doctoral student in child development, is the lead author of a recent study that explored the risk and protective factors associated with young people who are recruited by, but resist joining, street gangs. Co-authors of the study were educational psychology professor Dorothy Espelage and alumnus Jun Sung Hong, currently a professor at Wayne State University and at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea.

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