Recruitment of juveniles for a criminal street gang.

  1. Law
  2. Colorado Revised Statutes
  3. Criminal Code
  4. Gang Recruitment Act
  5. Recruitment of juveniles for a criminal street gang.

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(1) A person commits recruitment of a juvenile for a criminal street gang if he or she is eighteen years of age or older and:

  1. Knowingly solicits, invites, recruits, encourages, coerces, or otherwise causes a person younger than eighteen years of age to actively participate in or become a member of a criminal street gang; or

  2. By use of force, threat, or intimidation directed at any person, or by the infliction ofbodily injury upon any person, knowingly prevents a person younger than eighteen years of age from leaving a criminal street gang.

  1. Recruitment of a juvenile for a criminal street gang is a class 1 misdemeanor.

  2. Nothing in this section shall affect the ability to charge criminal offenses under article 17 of this title.

Source: L. 2001: Entire article added, p. 987, § 1, effective March 1, 2002.


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