CRJ 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Corporate Crime, Burglary, Filicide
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For both girls and boys, peer influence and pressure motivates them to commit crimes. Wing and willis: six frequently overlapping roles of african american women gangs: Full-fledged members of their own female-only gangs. Auxiliaries or offering help to male gangs. Girlfriends and wives of male gang members. Mothers, sisters, and daughter of male gang members. Joe and chesney-linds: study of hawaiian gang members showed that for both girls and boys, gangs created a social outlet , gang members created a sense of family. Moore: study showed that female gang members are more likely than males to: Living with a relative who is a heroin addict. Live with a relative who was arrested. Why do girls join gangs: girls have a more problematic family life than boys who join gangs, social isolation in their homes, not attached to mother or father and often left unmonitored by parents.