The Rise in Female Gang Members

Many people are aware that gangs are always looking for permanent appearance. There are 28,000 youth groups in the United States, including 780,200 members (2000), of which 20% to 46% are women (Evans). More shocking is that in Chicago alone there are 16,000 to 20,000 women gang members (Eghigian). These girls were originally "groups", became members, sometimes they had trouble at home, needed money, had social circumstances, or all of them knew It became a gang leader of a girl.

Over the past few years, research on women's street gangs has become increasingly important as the number of women's gang members in the United States increases. However, the scope of the problem of female gang is not easily discernible. This is because it is difficult to identify gang members as described in the previous chapter, as well as the official statistical data of female gang members are not as accurate as daily gang dismantling (Curry, Ball) or Fox . 1994) In order to complicate the problem, women's gang members, mixed gang of male and female, and several types of gangs, including a gang of women belonging to a girl of female gangs independent of men's gang Can participate in (Miller, 1975).

A study on women's gang participation provides an interesting look at the theme of being complicated in many respects, although it has not been fully studied in history. The number of male gang members exceeds that of women, but in modern times the proportion of women accompanying gangs is rising. Comparing female gangs with male gang participation, women showed a social approach similar to men, they committed the same type of crime and was recorded as having a similar gang social structure and expectation. Women are determined to participate in these groups for various reasons when examining the relationship between women and gangs by organizing their gangs or linking to men's gangs.

Women's participation is comparable to male participation when trying to understand whether women participate in male gangs or women form gangs. Overall, there are quite a lot of male gang members than female members. In numerous interviews with adults and gang members of young men, it has been suggested that women play a secondary role in most gangs, especially with regard to male gangs, which are highly physical and physical There are serious harm. In an interview with a young woman involved in the gang, it has been shown that participation in the gang has a positive effect on women, and that motivation for women to participate in violent actions varies during the engagement process It is.