HISTORY
According to Oxford Dictionary, the word gang is defined as “an organized group of criminals or a group of young people involved in petty crime or violence. ‘Gang’ has been originated as “Old English, from Old Norse gangr, ganga 'gait, course, going ', of Germanic origin; related to gang. The original meaning was 'going, a journey ', later in Middle English 'a way ', also 'set of things or people which go together '” (2013). Although it is extremely difficult for one to determine exactly when gangs had been originated; vast studies have indicated that there has been evidence of organized crimes since the early 1740s. “Throughout the 1980s and the 1990s both male and female gangs seemed to have drastically proliferated. Despite the …show more content…
It’s quite evident that the population of female gang affiliation has surely but slowly increased over the past couple of years. Journalists, Researchers, and teacher have all ignored the concepts behind female gang members, solely because women are incapable of committing ‘masculine’ crimes, such as murder, theft, and or robbery. “It was often assumed that females did not take part in such behavior, so early researchers were not interested in the delinquency of female gang members” (Moore &Hagedorn, 2001). For the amounts of research that were issued, reports have analytical questioned whether or not female gangs are considered to be real or a parody of male groups. Now, rendering from Statistics Canada, “approximately 233,000 females were accused by police of having committed a Criminal Code offence in Canada. Females accounted for more than one quarter (28%) of youth (under 18 years of age) accused by police” (2009). Although males are convicted of felonies much more than the female species (StatsCan, 2013), the distinguishing fact remains. Females are capable of committing crimes just as the male species does; regardless of the content of the crime or the differentiating number between the two …show more content…
Anne Campbell’s examination advocates that female gang members are significantly much more disadvantaged in comparison to male gang members. She argues that females are for more probable to be originated from broken, unemployed, and both mentally and physically abusive families (1991). However, both Joan Moore and John Hagedorn have expanded into this argument indicating that male gang affiliates are customarily derived from the conventional working-class families, in comparison to female gang member who descend from abusive underclass families (1991). Mr. Finn-AageEbeson,and his colleagues have contended that males are far more probable to have joined a gang in order to obtain both money and power. While on the other hand, Ms. Kerryn Bell believes “that females join gangs because they have few options in very disadvantaged neighborhoods and they are seeking a familial peer group and emotionally fulfilling relationships that they do not find in other areas of their lives” (2007). Moreover, to generate a conclusion or distinction between both aspects of gang affiliation, Mr. Ebeson declared that one cannot determine the outmost decision on the gender difference in gang affiliation, simply because there are no gender differences in reasoning’s. Both males and females have merely testified that protection is the solitary foundation for affiliating themselves in gangs
According to Oxford Dictionary, the word gang is defined as “an organized group of criminals or a group of young people involved in petty crime or violence. ‘Gang’ has been originated as “Old English, from Old Norse gangr, ganga 'gait, course, going ', of Germanic origin; related to gang. The original meaning was 'going, a journey ', later in Middle English 'a way ', also 'set of things or people which go together '” (2013). Although it is extremely difficult for one to determine exactly when gangs had been originated; vast studies have indicated that there has been evidence of organized crimes since the early 1740s. “Throughout the 1980s and the 1990s both male and female gangs seemed to have drastically proliferated. Despite the …show more content…
It’s quite evident that the population of female gang affiliation has surely but slowly increased over the past couple of years. Journalists, Researchers, and teacher have all ignored the concepts behind female gang members, solely because women are incapable of committing ‘masculine’ crimes, such as murder, theft, and or robbery. “It was often assumed that females did not take part in such behavior, so early researchers were not interested in the delinquency of female gang members” (Moore &Hagedorn, 2001). For the amounts of research that were issued, reports have analytical questioned whether or not female gangs are considered to be real or a parody of male groups. Now, rendering from Statistics Canada, “approximately 233,000 females were accused by police of having committed a Criminal Code offence in Canada. Females accounted for more than one quarter (28%) of youth (under 18 years of age) accused by police” (2009). Although males are convicted of felonies much more than the female species (StatsCan, 2013), the distinguishing fact remains. Females are capable of committing crimes just as the male species does; regardless of the content of the crime or the differentiating number between the two …show more content…
Anne Campbell’s examination advocates that female gang members are significantly much more disadvantaged in comparison to male gang members. She argues that females are for more probable to be originated from broken, unemployed, and both mentally and physically abusive families (1991). However, both Joan Moore and John Hagedorn have expanded into this argument indicating that male gang affiliates are customarily derived from the conventional working-class families, in comparison to female gang member who descend from abusive underclass families (1991). Mr. Finn-AageEbeson,and his colleagues have contended that males are far more probable to have joined a gang in order to obtain both money and power. While on the other hand, Ms. Kerryn Bell believes “that females join gangs because they have few options in very disadvantaged neighborhoods and they are seeking a familial peer group and emotionally fulfilling relationships that they do not find in other areas of their lives” (2007). Moreover, to generate a conclusion or distinction between both aspects of gang affiliation, Mr. Ebeson declared that one cannot determine the outmost decision on the gender difference in gang affiliation, simply because there are no gender differences in reasoning’s. Both males and females have merely testified that protection is the solitary foundation for affiliating themselves in gangs