Risk Behaviors Among Young Mexican American Gang-Associated Females : Sexual Relations, Partying, Substance Use, and Crime  

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Valdez, Avelardo ; Cepeda, Alice

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Adolescent Research (http://jar.sagepub.com/) vol. 18 no. 1 (Jan. 2003), page 90-106.
Topik: sexual relations; risk behaviours; gang; sexual relations; partying; crime
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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: JJ81.5 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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This research focuses on young mexican american girls who are not formal gang members yet participate in street based activities of amle gangs and engage in risk behaviours. These females comprise a large proportion asociated with male gangs in inner city neighborhoods than actual female gang members. Using a qualitative design, the article presents a typology of mexican american females that reveals a hierarchy based on exposure to four risk related activities : sexual relations, partying, substance use and crime. Findings illustrate how outcomes associated with these activities vary according to the girl's relationship to the male gang and status within the community. Also, regardless of their relationship to the gang, participation in these activities resulted in different degrees of negative outcomes. The study concludes that problems associated with these females must go beyond being viewed as individual problems but rather seen within the social, cultural and economic conditions of their environment.

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