The lives of female gang members: A review of the literature

The membership of women gang has been ignored for several years, but recent research by feminist criminologists provides more complicated photographs of young women in women participating in ganglife. According to the literature, the risk factors and effects of women's youth participation are formed in several ways depending on gender. In this review, four main areas were discussed: 1) Risk factors for the participation of women's youth group 2) The extent and characteristics of violence and crime committed by women's gang members 3) Gang members' Sex effect 4) Women gang members no longer participate in gang life. In each section, work is devoted to the work that women gang members and men and women gang members experience. Finally, it provides a direction for future research.

"Sexual objects or boys" - these images became the leader of literature on women's gang members quite recently. Individual women are portrayed from the perspective of sexual activity, sometimes referring to their function as weapon holders of male gang members. . . . Even if a female gang member is explained as a man, researchers emphasize that women's motivation is mainly concentrated in men 2 (Moore and Hagedorn, 2001: 2). In the United States, feminist researchers are challenging this image and they are trying to portray the complex gender experience of women in gangs (Miller, 2001: 16).

The membership of women gang has been ignored for several years, but recent research by feminist criminologists provides more complicated photographs of young women in women participating in ganglife. According to the literature, the risk factors and effects of women's youth participation are formed in several ways depending on gender. In this review, four main areas were discussed: 1) Risk factors for the participation of women's youth group 2) Violence and crime committed by women's gang members and features 3) Gang member sacrifice experience Impact of gender 4) Women gang members no longer participate in gang life. In each section, work is devoted to the work that women gang members and men and women gang members experience. Finally, it provides a direction for future research.

As Walter Miller explains and defines, women's gang members can function in one of three identities. Independently functioning units, girls co-ed gangs, and women's gang members. All independently working units are all women gangs who are active in their gang color and name and are not subject to existing male gang supervision. There are male and female members in the coeducational group. Mr. Taylor notes that the position and power of a women's member varies from gang to gang and is influenced by the structure of the gang, especially whether it is for profit or not, but most mentally responsible There. The female assistant gang changes the name using the name of an existing male group, but it will operate semi-autonomously. Their behavior is for the benefit of the male group, but dominates the members' initiation and internal affairs of the group.