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Article de Périodique
The meaning and gendered culture of getting high: gang girls and drug use issues (2002)
(La signification culturelle de l'extase selon le sexe : femmes à l'intérieur des gangs et usages de drogues)
Auteur(s) :
HUNT, G. P. ;
JOE-LAIDLER, K. ;
EVANS, K.
Année
2002
Page(s) :
375-416
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
68
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Thésaurus mots-clés
SEXE FEMININ
;
COUPLE
;
ORGANISATION CRIMINELLE
;
USAGE RECREATIF
Thésaurus géographique
ETATS-UNIS
Note de contenu :
tabl.
Résumé :
ENGLISH :
This paper explores drug use in the lives of female gang members. Gang researchers have traditionally neglected the roles that females play in street gangs. More recent efforts have begun to examine the social life of young women and to uncover the extent to which the women develop a subculture within a male-dominated environment. In analyzing the culture of drug use in gang life, we uncover the extent to which women use illicit drugs in a highly gendered way. We focus on the ways in which female gang members use drugs in a recreational manner, in a social setting where drug taking is normative behavior. Data for this paper are drawn from an ongoing study of street gangs in the San Francisco Bay area in which 168 female gang members were intenviewed using both a quantitative and a qualitative interview schedule. (Author' s abstract)
Affiliation :
Etats-Unis. United States.