Since emotions play a vital role in transforming the experience of a stigmatised identity, this article illustrates that identity and stigma attunement entails ‘emotional promises’ of stress relief and ‘emotional rewards’ by blending in to prevailing community ethos. After being mocked and exposed to affective and physical violence during community initiation, their integration into the street-related community shifted their experiences of belonging in terms of uplifted self-esteem and wellbeing. Being unprotected and homeless gave rise to spatial, social and emotional vulnerabilities and negative attributes that strongly affected newcomer children and adolescents. This article focuses on a community of street-related children, adolescents and young adults, who broke away from their families and began embracing life on the streets of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Expanding on these debates, it highlights the experiences of newcomer children during and after their integration into street-related communities and focuses on the life of Kris, a former 'street kid' of the Congklak community, vis-à-vis central turning points during and after his street-related career. From a theoretical perspective, the article contributes to critical studies of marginalised children and youth (Bolotta 2014, Brown 2011, De Moura 2002, Ennew & Swart-Krueger 2003, Glauser 1990, Heinonen 2011, Panter-Brick 2002, Vignato 2012, children and youth subculture formation (Baulch 2002), gendered identity construction, social practices of place-making among street-related communities in Yogyakarta's city center (Beazley 2003a, 2003b, 2000, Berman 1994, Ertanto 1999, and the scholarship on Javanese subjectivities (Beatty 2005, Geertz 1960, H. Despite this unfavorable turn of events, I intend to illustrate that their eviction from the public eye did not coalesce with a lack of mutual care and solidarity among street-related communities. These results are further considered within the context of facilitating effects such as gender dynamics, gang characteristics, and normative orientation. Results support previous findings about variations in member delinquency by both sex and sex composition of the gang and also indicate parallel variations in members’ victimization. Self-report data from gang members in a multi-site, longitudinal study of 3,820 youths are employed. Drawing on this and other research linking gang membership, offending, and victimization, we examine whether sex composition of gangs is linked to sex differences in offending in this sample, further assess whether sex composition similarly structures females’ and males’ victimization experiences, and if so, why. Peer group and gang literature similarly finds that the sex gap in offending varies across groups of differing sex ratios. Sex composition of groups has been theorized in organizational sociology and found in prior work to structure female and male members’ behaviors and experiences.
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