TABLE 1—

Sample Characteristics and Descriptive Statistics of Variables Used in Analytic Sample and Regression Analyses of an African American Community: Chicago, IL, 2006–2011.

Characteristics	Mean (SD)	Range
Individual
Age: age in y	27.42 (9.68)	13–71
Race: whether individual is African American	0.987 (0.111)	1 = African American, 0 = non–African American
Gender: whether individual is male	0.892 (0.301)	1 = male, 0 = female
Gang member: whether individual is identified by the police as a gang member	0.347 (0.472)	1 = yes, 0 = no
Network
Degree: total no. of co-offending ties an individual has in the network	2.291 (2.063)	1–20
Ego-density: percentage of an individual’s network associates who are also tied to each other	0.352 (0.400)	0–1
Geodesic distance to victim: the mean shortest distance between an individual and all homicide victims in the network	5.400 (2.518)	1–16
Geographic distance to victim: shortest spatial distance to a homicide victim in ft	153.00 (112.078)	0.415–2067
Member of largest network: whether an individual is part of the largest co-offending network	0.968 (0.174)	1 = yes, 0 = no