Taking risks within the constraints of gender: Mexican-American women as professional auto thieves

Resendiz, Rosalva

doi:10.1016/s0362-3319(01)00127-6

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“…An emerging feminist criminology constructs a critical analytical framework for explaining women's patterns of criminal behavior (Anderson 2005;Chesney-Lind 2006;Denton and O'Malley 1999). A feminist approach can allow us to understand the "multiple intersecting inequalities" (Geller and Stockard 2006;Burgess-Proctor 2006:28;Price and Sokoloff 2004;Collins 2000;Resendiz 2001), that push or pull women into drug crime, as well as the ways that women, within specific cultural contexts, exercise agency. Hunnicutt and Broidy (2004), in a recent study that raises key issues for the current article, test the relevance of "liberation" vs. "economic marginalization" models for explaining female offense patterns.…”

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Female Drug Smugglers on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Gender, Crime, and Empowerment

Campbell¹

2008

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Women's involvement in drug trafficking in recent years has expanded dramatically. Yet there are few studies of female drug smugglers, the causes of female involvement in smuggling, and the impact of smuggling on women's lives specifically. In this article, I provide in-depth ethnographic interviews and observations of a broad spectrum of female drug smugglers on the U.S.-Mexico border. Moving beyond stereotypes, I examine how drug trafficking affects women's relationships with men and their position in society.Economic and cultural factors strongly shape women's involvement in drug smuggling and the effects of smuggling on their lives, but these factors and effects vary significantly, depending on women's social class position and place within drug organizations. High-level female drug smugglers may be attracted to the power and mystique of drug trafficking and may achieve a relative independence from male dominance. Middle-level women in smuggling organizations obtain less freedom vis-à-vis men but may manipulate gender stereotypes to their advantage in the smuggling world. Lowlevel mules also perform (or subvert) traditional gender roles as a smuggling Female Drug Smugglers on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Gender, Crime, and Empowerment 234 strategy, but receive less economic benefit and less power, though in some cases some independence from male domestic control. A fourth category of women do not smuggle drugs but are negatively impacted by the male smugglers with whom they are associated.I argue that drug smuggling frequently leads to female victimization, especially at the lowest and middle levels of drug trafficking organizations. However, it is also, in the case of high-level and some low-level and middle-level smugglers, a vehicle for female empowerment.

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Section: Feminist Criminology Perspectivesmentioning

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Female Drug Smugglers on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Gender, Crime, and Empowerment

Campbell¹

2008

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129

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“…Research on a variety of criminal enterprises-including drug sales (Maher, 1997), burglary networks (Mullins and Wright, 2003), professional thieves (Resindiz, 2001;Steffensmeier and Terry, 1986), robbery crews (Miller, 1998), street gangs (Chin, 1996;Miller, 2001), and traditional organized crime (Siebert, 1996)-has offered support for Steffensmeier's propositions. Overwhelmingly, this research documents that men engage in exclusionary practices within illicit networks that reproduce the maledominated nature of these groups and draw from cultural ideas about women to justify these practices.…”

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Women's Participation in Chinese Transnational Human Smuggling: A Gendered Market Perspective*

Zhang¹,

2007

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Despite extensive sociological research on gender and organizations, criminologists have paid insufficient attention to how organizational context and market demands may shape the extent and nature of women's participation in illicit enterprises. This study uses an organizational framework to examine the case of Chinese human smuggling to the United States. Drawing from interviews with 129 human smugglers, we propose a gendered market perspective for understanding the place of women in the human smuggling enterprise. We argue that the limited place of violence and turf as organizing features of human smuggling, the importance of interpersonal networks in defining and facilitating smuggling operations, gender ideologies about work and caregiving, and the impact of safety as an overriding concern for clients combine to create a more meaningful niche for women in human smuggling operations than is found in other criminal endeavors. Our research suggests that organizational and market contexts are significant explanations for gender stratification in illicit enterprises.

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“…In doing this, one must be aware of culturally diverse populations in the United States that may have distinct values, beliefs and norms. In the case of Hispanic adolescents, programs have to be sensitive not only to ethnicity, but also other differences such as gender, social class, age and geographical regions (i.e., border vs. non-border areas), and to treat such concepts as multifaceted rather than unidirectional (Resendiz, 2001). Clearly, knowledge of various forms of stress associated with this group are essential for successful prevention and intervention approaches among Mexican Americans and other Hispanics, especially given that this population continues to increase both in the general public and in our nation's prisons and jails.…”

Section: Journal Of Ethnicity In Criminal Justicementioning

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Intimate Partner Violence Among Hispanic Females

Petersen

Valdez

2004

Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice

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Intimate partner violence poses a major public health and social problem with serious criminal justice, health and social-related consequences. However, little is known about the etiology of intimate partner violence among young people, especially minority youth. Using the Hispanic Stress Inventory, we examine intimate partner violence among Hispanics, particularly Mexican American adolescent females. Understanding and identifying issues related to intimate partner violence is crucial for developing and implementing effective policies and programs encompassing both public health and criminal justice approaches specific to this rapidly growing population of young people.

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Taking risks within the constraints of gender: Mexican-American women as professional auto thieves

Cited by 9 publications

References 6 publications

Female Drug Smugglers on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Gender, Crime, and Empowerment

Female Drug Smugglers on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Gender, Crime, and Empowerment

Women's Participation in Chinese Transnational Human Smuggling: A Gendered Market Perspective*

Intimate Partner Violence Among Hispanic Females

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