2007
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2007.00085.x
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Women's Participation in Chinese Transnational Human Smuggling: A Gendered Market Perspective*

Abstract: 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 ente… Show more

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“…Moreover, not all crimes are the same, nor are they just symptoms of latent characteristics such as low self-control and a variety of people can become involved in organized crime (e.g. Steffensmeier and Ulmer 2005 ;Zaitch 2002 ;Zhang et al 2007 ). From this point of view, situational factors -instead of personality traits -can explain involvement in organized crime.…”
Section: Pathways Into Organized Crimementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Moreover, not all crimes are the same, nor are they just symptoms of latent characteristics such as low self-control and a variety of people can become involved in organized crime (e.g. Steffensmeier and Ulmer 2005 ;Zaitch 2002 ;Zhang et al 2007 ). From this point of view, situational factors -instead of personality traits -can explain involvement in organized crime.…”
Section: Pathways Into Organized Crimementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Generally, migrant communities do not regard smuggling illegal immigrants as a serious offence [41,51]. On the contrary, smugglers are not viewed as criminals but as 'service providers', offering the opportunity to find a better future elsewhere.…”
Section: Background: Human Smuggling Versus Synthetic Drugs and Precumentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It appears that children are easy targets of human traffickers and the use of physical violence is rarely necessary. Thus, child trafficking does not seem to have "gender barriers" for women (Zhang, Chin, and Miller, 2007).…”
Section: Women's Involvement In Child Trafficking In China: the Cultumentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As Table 2 illustrates, like that in human smuggling (see, Zhang et al, 2007), services in child trafficking are narrowly defined and can be provided by different individuals. Although nothing should prevent women from entering the child trade at any stage, the female traffickers in this sample appeared to be more frequently involved at the recruitment and transportation stages and typically played more than one role in trafficking operations.…”
Section: Female Traffickers' Entry Their Role and Performance In Chimentioning
confidence: 99%
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