TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2001//
TI  - Accomplishing Femininity Among the Girls in the Gang
JO  - British journal of criminology
A1  - Laidler, Karen Joe
A1  - Hunt, Geoffrey
SP  - 656
EP  - 678
VL  - 41
IS  - 4
N2  - Sociologists and criminologists in America have had a longstanding interest in youth gangs dating back to the pioneering work of Frederick Thrasher through to the subcultural theories of the 1960s -1970s to the present. Until recently, the primary focus was on the role of male gang members. In contrast, discussions about young women's involvement in gangs, with a few notable exceptions, have been typically shallow and sexist. In this paper the authors examine the meanings, expressions and paradoxes of femininity as they are understood and experienced by Latina, African American and Asian-Pacific American female gang members. The analysis, based on in-depth interviews with 141 gang members, is part of a long-term study (1990-present) of youth gangs in the San Francisco Bay Area. (Abstract Adapted from Source: British Journal of Criminology, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by Oxford University Press)  California Juvenile Female Juvenile Gang Juvenile Offender Juvenile Crime Adult Female Adult Gang Adult Offender Adult Crime Female Gang Female Crime Female Offender Offender Characteristics Late Adolescence Early Adolescence Demographic Characteristics Gang Membership Causes African American Adult African American Crime African American Female African American Gang African American Juvenile African American Offender Hispanic Adult Hispanic Crime Hispanic Female Hispanic Gang Hispanic Juvenile Hispanic Offender Asian Adult Asian Crime Asian Female Asian Gang Asian Juvenile Asian Offender 12-01<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 0007-0955
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
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