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 Young Women and Gang Violence: Gender, Street Offending, and Violent Victimization in Gangs
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              187426
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*Justice Quarterly* Volume: 18 Issue: 1 Dated: March 2001 Pages: 115-140
Author(s)
          Jody Miller;
                        Scott H. Decker
Date Published

March 2001
Length
              26 pages
Annotation
              This study examines how gendered situational dynamics shape gang violence.
Abstract
              The study was based on in-depth interviews with young women in St. Louis gangs and homicide reports from the same city. The women, even regular offenders, highlighted the significance of gender in shaping and limiting their involvement in serious violence. They used gender both to accomplish their criminal activities and to temper their involvement in gang crime. Consequently, their risk for serious physical victimization in gangs was considerably less than young men's. Not only were young women much less likely to be victims of gang homicide, the vast majority of female gang homicide victims were not the intended targets of the attack. In contrast, the majority of male gang homicide victims were the intended targets. The study concludes that women's lower level of involvement in gang homicide, as both victims and offenders, may reflect their lower rates of participation in gang life. Apparently, it is the nature of young women's gang involvement that is at issue. At the situational level, gendered group processes and stratification within gangs are key factors that help explain both violent offending and victimization risk in gangs. Notes, tables, references
      
  
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Date Published: March 1, 2001
    
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