One of the guys : girls, gangs, and gender / Jody Miller.
Examines the causes, nature, and meaning of female gang involvement. Criminologist Miller situates the study of female gang membership in the context of current directions in feminist scholarship and current research on both gangs and female criminal offenders. The body of the book draws on intervie...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2001]
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| Summary: | Examines the causes, nature, and meaning of female gang involvement. Criminologist Miller situates the study of female gang membership in the context of current directions in feminist scholarship and current research on both gangs and female criminal offenders. The body of the book draws on interviews from girls in two mid-sized midwestern cities with relatively new gang histories, St. Louis, Missouri and Columbus, Ohio. It discusses how and why girls join gangs, the nature of girls' involvement in gangs (including initiation rituals, gang rules, inter-gang-rivalries, and criminal activities), and how gang involvement shapes girls' participation in delinquency and their risk of victimization, as well as the ways their gender affects this experience.--From publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 263 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-257) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0195130782 9780195130782 0195130774 9780195130775 |