The Impact of Gender Identity on Female Offending: A Quantitative Assessment Using the BSRI

Dolliver, Matthew J.

doi:10.1080/08974454.2017.1367753

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“…But belligerence can also result in girls being labeled as “tomboys” (Thrasher, 1927, p. 158) or being linked to masculine identity traits (Dolliver, 2019); stereotypes that are formed principally in relation to how males act. Labeling girls in this way negates the possibility that they might partake in oppositional behaviors in their own right (Campbell, 1984).…”

Section: Girls and Gangsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Femme Fatales: Girl Gangsters and Violent Street Culture in Cape Town

Dziewanski

2020

Feminist Criminology

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This article examines the ways that 21 girl gangsters perform violent street culture in Cape Town, South Africa. It examines their participation in the city’s township gangs, with a particular focus on female involvement in gang-related acts of aggression and violence. Research looks to move beyond portrayals of girl gangsters in Cape Town as either victims or accessories. It shows how they leverage street cultural performances in reaction to intersectional oppression, and in an attempt to empower themselves. Young women in this study joined gangs and took part in violence for many of the same reasons that men do—protection, income, status, and so on—as well as due to threats of sexual violence faced specifically by females. But street cultural participation for females in Cape Town also often perpetuates cycles of violent victimization, incarceration, and substance abuse that keep girl gangsters trapped in a life on the streets. In this way, females in this study broke from the binary view of girl gangsterism as either totally liberating or totally injurious, embodying both simultaneously.

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Section: Girls and Gangsmentioning

confidence: 99%