@article{ref1,
title="Female-Female Non-Partner Assault: A Political-Economic Theory of Street Codes and Female-Gendered Culture in the Contemporary African-American Inner City",
journal="Critical sociology",
year="2008",
author="Wallace, Don and Grisso, Jeane A. and Hirschinger-Blank, Nancy",
volume="34",
number="2",
pages="271-290",
abstract="In this article we present a theory of the prevalence of female-female non-partner violence in the African-American inner city. We employ `ghetto' (economic) and `internal colony' (political) models to illuminate dimensions of the African-American inner city which we view as proximal determinants of female-female interpersonal violence. These cultural and structural elements include conflict within the separate female-gendered cultural milieu centered in the female-headed household system, and the `rule of force' imposed by agencies of social control as the cultural model for dominance, oppression, and interpersonal violence. Verbatim accounts provided by respondents injured in female-female violent interactions are offered as illustrations of the theory.<p />",
language="",
issn="0896-9205",
doi="10.1177/0896920507085521",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0896920507085521"
}