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Journal articles on the topic "Girl gang"

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Hughes, Lorine A., Ekaterina V. Botchkovar, and James F. Short. "“Bargaining with Patriarchy” and “Bad Girl Femininity”: Relationship and Behaviors among Chicago Girl Gangs, 1959–62." Social Forces 98, no. 2 (February 4, 2019): 493–517. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sf/soz002.

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Abstract This study uses observational, social network, and self-report survey data from a large study of male gangs in Chicago, 1959–62, to examine intragroup relationships and behaviors among their female auxiliaries, particularly the Vice Ladies and Cobraettes. Unlike descriptions of the female gang as forming a cohesive “sisterhood,” our findings revealed frequent intragroup conflict and loosely connected friendship networks. Consistent with the bulk of contemporary literature, the Chicago gang girls appeared to maintain ties with one another less for affective reasons than for the benefits they provided in the streets (e.g., peer backup). Regarding their behaviors, the Chicago gang girls engaged in both socio-sexual and stereotypically male activities, including strong-arm robbery and purse-snatching. Although sex sometimes was used to gain favor with boys, we found no evidence of it being valued and rewarded with prestige among homegirls. Instead, the most sexually active girls tended to be the least popular in the gang. The implications of these findings are discussed in the context of “bad girl femininity” performed by gang girls and gang involvement as a resource for “bargaining with patriarchy.”

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Horrex, Emma. "From Teen Angels to Vogue: The subcultural styles of the girl gang in Mi Vida Loca." Film, Fashion & Consumption 9, no. 1 (May 1, 2020): 43–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ffc_00011_1.

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Abstract Despite increasing sociological scholarship pertaining to girl gang membership in the last few decades, there continues to be a lack of engagement with the meaning of their stylistic practices and how this manifests on screen. As a corrective to this, this article considers the complexities, contradictions and ambiguities in girl gang styles and their 'symbolic meaning' for young Chicanas as represented in the first feature-length film to bring contemporary girl gang activity from the streets to the mainstream, Mi Vida Loca (1994). Examining Chola makeup, gang tattoos and dress, the article explores how the gang girl can produce meaning (political, feminist or other) and power through styles, and the tensions between 'authentic' agentic subcultural defiance and mainstream consumption, and the dualistic constructions of girlhood itself. Disadvantaged by intersecting forces, it is argued that gang girls do not necessarily have less opportunity, but greater difficulty in imposing meaning onto the world and resisting hegemonic forces through subcultural aesthetics.

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Larson, Heidi J. "A global girl gang." Lancet 391, no. 10120 (February 2018): 527–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(18)30193-4.

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Young, Tara. "Girls and Gangs: ‘Shemale’ Gangsters in the UK?" Youth Justice 9, no. 3 (December 2009): 224–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473225409345101.

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In recent years there have been a number of high profile stories reporting increasing levels of female involvement in group related crime. According to these reports teenage girls are no longer spectators hovering on the periphery of street gangs but are hard core members actively engaging in the kind of extreme violence that is usually the preserve of men. As girl ‘gangsters’, young women are seen to be engaging in a wide range of crimes such as robbery, rape and murder. Using findings from an empirical study on young people’s use of weapons and involvement in street based groups, this article examines female involvement in ‘gangs’ and their violent behaviour. It challenges the dominant stereotype of girl ‘gangsters’ as malicious violent aggressors. The notion of the gang and implications for policy and practice will also be considered.

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Curran, Ronald, and Joyce Carol Oates. "Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang." World Literature Today 68, no. 3 (1994): 570. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40150453.

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Quealy-Gainer, Kate. "Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson." Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 71, no. 9 (2018): 373. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bcc.2018.0316.

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Dziewanski, Dariusz. "Femme Fatales: Girl Gangsters and Violent Street Culture in Cape Town." Feminist Criminology 15, no. 4 (April 5, 2020): 438–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557085120914374.

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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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Joe-Laidler, Geoffrey Hunt, Karen. "SITUATIONS OF VIOLENCE IN THE LIVES OF GIRL GANG MEMBERS." Health Care for Women International 22, no. 4 (June 2001): 363–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07399330117165.

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Hunt, Geoffrey, and Karen Joe-Laidler. "SITUATIONS OF VIOLENCE IN THE LIVES OF GIRL GANG MEMBERS." Health Care For Women International 22, no. 4 (June 1, 2001): 363–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07399330152398909.

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Wood, Helen. "Three (Working-class) Girls: Social Realism, the ‘At-risk’ Girl and Alternative Classed Subjectivities." Journal of British Cinema and Television 17, no. 1 (January 2020): 70–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2020.0508.

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This article focuses on the BBC1 three-part drama Three Girls, broadcast in July 2017, which dramatised the Rochdale child sex-grooming gang scandal of 2011 and won five BAFTAs in 2018. While many of the dominant press narratives focused on the ethnicity of the perpetrators, few accounts of the scandal spoke to the need for a sustained public discussion of the class location of the victims. This article considers how the process of recognising the social problem of sex-grooming is set up for the audience through a particular mode of address. In many ways the drama rendered visible the structural conditions that provided the context for this abuse by drawing on the expanded repertoires of television social realism: the representation of the town as abuser; the championing of heroic working-class women; and the power of working-class vernacular. However, ultimately, the narrative marginalises the type of girl most likely to be the victim of this form of sexual abuse. By focusing on the recognisable journey of the girl ‘who can be saved’ this renders the impoverished girl as already constitutive of the social problem. The analysis draws attention to the difficulties of recognising alternative classed subjectivities on television because of the way that boundary-markers are placed between the working class and the poor and suggests that the consequence of these representations is to reify ideas about the victims of poverty and exploitation.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Girl gang"

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Horrex, Emma. "From representation to reception : the gang girl and girl gang in contemporary American film." Thesis, University of Hull, 2016. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:15425.

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Ball, Adele. "NO WOMAN IS AN ISLAND." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4250.

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We have gathered the following pages to archive our time here in Richmond, Virginia. We have been here for two years, growing slowly, moving when needed to new anchorholds to avoid detection or arrest. We scrutinize the urban environment like modern archeologists. We collect stories and speculate about new uses of old things. It is imperative to be resourceful here, and we do so out of necessity but also in the spirit of practice. These pages were made en route, each an exploration of the tools at hand when on the move. The method of creation is just as important as the creation as the story itself. The ancients invented stories about the constellations in order to track their routes across the earth. A cluster of stars exists called the seven sisters. Only six are visible. According to myth, the sisters leave to look for the seventh sister and disappear below the horizon for a month. Their return to the sky signals the end of the planting season. The story becomes allegory, told to educate stargazers about the growing cycle. Like those sisters, we come and go. We tell stories to teach. We tell stories survive.

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Petrich, Tatum. "The Girl Gang: Women Writers of the New York City Beat Community." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/176745.

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The Girl Gang: Women Writers of the New York City Beat Community seeks to revise our understanding of the Beat community and literary tradition by critically engaging the lives and work of five women Beat writers: Diane di Prima, Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones, Carol Bergé, and Mimi Albert. This dissertation argues that, from a position of marginality, these women developed as protofeminist writers, interrogating the traditional female gender role and constructing radical critiques of normative ideas in fiction and poetry in ways that resisted the male Beats' general subordination of women and that anticipated the feminist movement of the late 1960s and 1970s. A project of recovery and criticism, The Girl Gang provides literary biographies that explore how each writer's experience as a marginalized female writer within an otherwise countercultural community affected the development of her work; it also analyzes a range of works (published and unpublished texts from various genres, written from the early 1950s through the turn of the twenty-first century) in order to illustrate how each writer distinctively employs and revises mainstream and Beat literary and cultural conventions. The dissertation's critical analyses examine each writer's engagement in various literary, cultural, and social discourses, drawing attention to their incisive and provocative treatment of thematic issues that are central to the postwar countercultural critique of hegemonic norms --including fundamental Beat questions of identity, authenticity, and subjectivity-- and that are developed through experimentation with literary conventions. Ultimately, The Girl Gang argues that the literary achievements of the New York City women Beats collectively reconceptualize the prevailing notion of the Beat community and canon.
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Kelly, Ashlin. "Girls in Gangs: Listening to and Making Sense of Females' Perspectives of Gang Life." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32202.

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This thesis is an exploratory qualitative study that seeks to capture some of the experiences and challenges faced by females who have been gang-involved, either directly or peripherally. A total of eleven interviews were completed with seven women who were either former members of a gang (directly involved) or knew and associated with male and female gang members (peripherally involved) in Canada. The thesis examines my participants’ views of why women enter, persist and desist from gangs. My participants reported that girls join and stay in a gang primarily because they have a significant other who is a male gang member. A sense of kinship, financial dependency, and a lack of alternatives were cited as reasons for girls to join and persist in gangs. The main motivators for desisting were pregnancy, physical separation, treatment and hitting “rock bottom”. The principal findings indicate that there is a gendered hierarchy within mixed gangs that enables males to maintain power and control over females, impacting girl’s expectations, roles and responsibilities in a mixed gang. The significant social, psychological, physical and financial barriers to desistance are outlined and should be considered when devising programming to facilitate gang desistance for females. Furthermore, my participants stressed the need for comprehensive intervention initiatives that account for gender in order to help women desist safely and successfully. The study highlights that desisting from a gang can be a lifelong process, requiring ongoing support structures. The findings speak to the need to make the ‘invisible’ female gang members visible.

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Ford, Champagne Monique. "Examining the effects of abuse on girls in gangs." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3397.

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The purpose of this study is to encourage further study and attention to girls that are at high risk of becoming members of a gang. The more that can be learned about this group the more can be done to implement appropriate policies and programs to effectively target and assist this population. This study is based on an existing data set that profiled the needs and characteristics of girls that were incarcerated May 1996 at a California Youth Authority facility in Ventura, now called The Division of Juvenile Justice.

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Paulsson, Joseline. "Girls in Youth Gangs in Central America." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Romanska och klassiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-131103.

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Youth gangs, so-called Maras, in Central America have for a long time been one of the major factors contributing to the great amount of organized crime and violence in the Central American countries. The citizens in this region are exposed to violence and other crimes from the gangs on a daily basis. The vast amount of teens joining but also being forced to join the gangs is due to the high levels of poverty in the countries. Becoming a member in a gang is often seen as the only option to make a living. The study focuses on three countries in Central America: El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The reason why the author chose these three countries is because they are the ones with the highest youth gang activity in the region as well as the ones who have faced and still are facing high levels of violence and corruption. They have all faced political, economic, and social challenges after civil wars and increasing drug trafficking in the region. The method used in the study is qualitative through an analysis of secondary sources on young women in youth gangs. The material is analyzed from a gender perspective and also power and social control theory. The maras mainly recruit teen boys, but also young girls and women. Teen girls are in some cases forced to join the gangs but many times they join the gangs as self- protection from other local maras. The young girls are used for different tasks and duties while in the gang, but also face abuse by being taken advantage of in a male dominated environment. The essay focuses on the role of young women in gangs. The research questions are: why the young girls join the gangs? What are their roles in the gangs? Are their roles differentiate to the mens? It is important to observe how the youth gangs function, reflect the patriarchal structures of society in general which has created differences between the sexes where males are seen as superior to females, which also is evident in criminal youth gangs. The essay shows that the main reasons why young women join gangs are because they are looking for a safe environment due to lacking support and safety at home. The young women’s roles in the gang differentiate from the men in the way that they are assigned tasks according to traditional gender roles where the women are expected to do domestic tasks and excluded from some of the gang activities because of their gender.

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Walter, Isabel. "Transgressing gender? : a study of girls in gangs." Thesis, London South Bank University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310064.

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This study is an investigation into how young women construct and understand their participation in delinquent groups. Although such gangs are commonly seen as expressive or constitutive of masculinity, the girls of this research viewed their gang involvement as forging distinct femininities. In-depth interviews were conducted with 25 past and present female gang members. A grounded reflexive methodology focused on gang girls' "Voice" by exploring how theseyoung women articulated their experiences. This located particular narratives through which respondents made sense of their gang involvement. Girls told stories of the. gang as a place of belonging, ftiendship, excitement and family. They also described how the crime and violence of the gang were a means to negotiate questions of identity, status and power. Such storytellings revealed the social and subjective rewards gang involvement offers young women. Further, by attending to how gang girls' narratives manifest the race, age, class and gender locations of their speakers, the analysis of this study observed how gang participation enacts wider questions of social power at a local level. Popular and academic explanations of gang girls reproduce stereotypes of female law-breakers as Mad or Bad, as victims of troubled. personal histories., or as liberated and so somehow "male'. These all assume that delinquency is normatively masculine behaviour. In contrast, this study presents a grounded reading of how gang girls negotiated their gender identities which suggests thq crime and violence may offer feminine identities too. Girls in gangs were neither gender "liberated", nor simply subject to normative gender definitions. They displayed agency in constructing femininities of difference from other girls, but their gendered self-expressionsw ere also constrained by dominant relations of power. Rather than assume what is "masculine" and what "feminine" in advance, this suggests we need situated analyses of how gender is differentially constituted across diverse race/class/agelo cales, and how these constructions may then be linked to offending.

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Båke, Lisa, and Cora Perez. "Tjejgäng, finns de? : en kvalitativ studie om tonårstjejers vänskapsrelationer och kamratgrupper i tre Stockholmkommuner." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Social Work, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-6720.

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In September of year 2006, a young boy was brutally killed by a girl, age sixteen, in Örebro, Sweden. Girlgangs became a frequent subject in media. Professionals’ working with adolescents claims that girlgangs notis an existing phenomena in Sweden as it is in for example in the United States. The aim of this thesis was to investigate if teenage girls in Sweden have a tendency to join gangs as they do in the United States. This was qualitative study with four focus groups with teenage girls in three different areas in Stockholm. Areas with different social economic standards were chosen for the study to compare the girls’ answers. The result was analysed by a social psychological perspective and theoretic background. The result of this study showed that the group is important to the girls in their socialisation process and in order to create identity. There were similarities between the answers between the result of this study and research in The United States considering the girls choosing friends as they look for similarities between each other and the need of having fun. A tendency in the girls’ answers could not be seen in the matter of creating girlgangs as they do in the United States.

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Callsen, Gordon [Verfasser], Axel [Akademischer Betreuer] Hoffmann, Matthew [Akademischer Betreuer] Phillips, Janina [Akademischer Betreuer] Maultzsch, and Bernard [Akademischer Betreuer] Gil. "Advanced optical signatures of single, wurtzite GaN quantum dots : from fundamental exciton coupling mechanisms towards tunable photon statistics and hybrid-quasiparticles / Gordon Callsen. Gutachter: Axel Hoffmann ; Matthew Phillips ; Janina Maultzsch ; Bernard Gil. Betreuer: Axel Hoffmann ; Matthew Phillips." Berlin : Technische Universität Berlin, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1071598015/34.

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Books on the topic "Girl gang"

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Undead girl gang. New York: Razorbill, 2018.

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Chyna. How I escaped a girl gang. London: Coronet, 2012.

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Fly. K-9 in girl gang. New York (P.O. Box 1318, Cooper Stn., New York 10276): Fly, 1998.

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Oates, Joyce Carol. Foxfire: Confessions of a girl-gang. London: Macmillan, London, 1993.

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Oates, Joyce Carol. Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang. New York: Plume, 1994.

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Oates, Joyce Carol. Foxfire: Confessions of a girl gang. Franklin Center, Pa: Franklin Library, 1993.

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Oates, Joyce Carol. Foxfire: Confessions of a girl-gang. London: Picador, 1994.

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8 ball chicks: A year in the violent world of girl gangs. New York: Anchor Books, 1998.

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Sikes, Gini. 8 ball chicks: A year in the violent world of girl gangsters. New York: Anchor Books, 1997.

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Dennehy, Glennis. The girls in the gang. Auckland [N.Z.]: Reed Publishing (NZ), 2001.

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Book chapters on the topic "Girl gang"

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Davis, Carla P. "Navigating Neighborhood Institutions: Gang Involvement." In Girls and Juvenile Justice, 137–67. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42845-1_6.

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Valdez, Avelardo. "Introduction." In Mexican American Girls and Gang Violence, 1–14. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230601833_1.

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Valdez, Avelardo. "Life and Gangs on the West Side." In Mexican American Girls and Gang Violence, 15–43. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230601833_2.

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Valdez, Avelardo. "The Research Process: Acquiring Access, Maintaining Visibility, and Establishing Rapport." In Mexican American Girls and Gang Violence, 45–57. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230601833_3.

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Valdez, Avelardo. "Families in a Dangerous Community." In Mexican American Girls and Gang Violence, 59–82. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230601833_4.

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Valdez, Avelardo. "Risk Behaviors: Delinquency, Violence, Substance Use, and Sexual Relations." In Mexican American Girls and Gang Violence, 83–108. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230601833_5.

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Valdez, Avelardo. "Sexual and Physical Violent Victimization." In Mexican American Girls and Gang Violence, 109–33. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230601833_6.

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Valdez, Avelardo. "The Situational Context of Dating Violence." In Mexican American Girls and Gang Violence, 135–54. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230601833_7.

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Valdez, Avelardo. "Explaining Intimate-Partner Violence: Family, Drugs, and Psychosocial Factors." In Mexican American Girls and Gang Violence, 155–74. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230601833_8.

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Valdez, Avelardo. "Conclusion." In Mexican American Girls and Gang Violence, 175–81. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230601833_9.

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Reports on the topic "Girl gang"

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Robinson, Mackenzie, and MyungHee Sohn. Girl Gang. Ames: Iowa State University, Digital Repository, November 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.31274/itaa_proceedings-180814-1205.

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