Female Gang Members

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Females Gangs and Gang Members Krystal Davis Gang Activity and Drug Operations 4656 Instructor Robert Spinks October 5, 2012 Everest University Abstract This paper will explain female gang members’ families their structures. This paper will also describe female gang members’ role and behavioral expectations within the microcosm of the gang. This paper will include the concepts, dysfunctional home, family, pregnancy, and starting one’s own family Introduction According to Delaney (2006, p.203) “women have been involved in criminal activity for nearly as long as men, only never to the same extent. Historically, however little attention has been given to female gangsters, unless their crimes were related to violations of codes of…show more content…
Female gangsters were assumed to be just “sex toys,” “objects” or “tomboys” to the male gangs members, an assumption that has carried over to contemporary stereotypes of female gangsters whether these stereotypes of female gang members as “tomboys and sex toys” are accurate it is difficult to confirm because often these stereotypes do not come from reliable sources.” “Females join will join a gang for the same reason males join gangs, economic considerations, protection, lack of a stable family background, and respect. Female gangsters engage in the same types of criminal and noncriminal activities as boys. They can be very violent as well. According to Huizinga (1997), female gang members account for more violent crimes than do nongang boys” according Delaney (2006,…show more content…
The initiation process is different and some gangs don’t even use the initiation process. According to Delaney (2006, p.209) “initiation is completed in one of three ways; being “jumped in” (beaten), “born in” (being naturally accepted because of familial ties,) or “trained in” (raped or forced to have sex with several male gang members at once) According to Delaney (2006, p.210) “there are three types of female gang involvement: (1) membership in an independent gang, (2) regular membership in a male gang as a coed, and (3) as female auxiliaries of male gangs. Most girls are found within the third type.” According to Delaney (2006, p, 214) “female gangsters may commit variety of different offenses, ranging in a severity from the mild (status offenses such as running away from home and truancy), the moderate (property offense), to the extreme (assault, kidnapping, and murder). Although the amount and degree of criminal acts committed by female gang members vary from one gang the next (some may not commit any crimes), the violence is disproportionate to that of nongang females.” Gang
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