Female Gangs: A Focus on Research Bulletin

Methodological problems with many reports on female gangs are a key focus of this bulletin. It summarizes past and current research, considering reasons for membership, delinquency, and the influence of ethnicity and gender norms. The bulletin was authored by J. C. Moore and is hosted on the paperswithcode platform.

Use Cases

• Literature review on female gang membership based on summarized research.
• Analysis of delinquency and criminal activity patterns among female gang members.
• Study of how ethnicity and gender norms influence gang behavior.
• Assessment of long-term consequences of gang membership for females.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific, understudied demographic within criminology.
• Draws attention to programmatic and research needs for future work.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

J. C. Moore

Collection Method

Summarizes past and current research reports.