Chapter 35: Gender and Victimization Risk among Young Women in Gangs; Miller

 Three Features of  Gender, Gangs, and Violence:

1. Gangs as Protection and Risk

 2. Gender and Status

 3. Devaluation and Victimization

 

Chapter 36: Russian Organized Crime in America; Rush and Scarpetti

Traditional Models of Organized Crime and Enterprise Theory

Traditional Model:

1. Family or Familial Ties

2. Ethnic Ties

3. Lifelong Commitment

4. Currency of Violence

5. Insulation

6. Vertical and Horizontal Differentiation

7. Police Corruption

8. Large in numbers (dozens)

Enterprise Model:

1. Entrepreneurial Organization

2. Shared Values and Interests rather than Family Ties

3. Smaller Size (15-20)

4. No Formal Hierarchical or Bureaucratic Structure

5. Shared Cultural Identity and Social System Origin

6. Currency of Economic Activity more than Violence

7. Pursue Activities presented by Demand Opportunistically with Minimal Risk

Progression of Criminal Organizations

1. Individual Criminal

2. Intra-Ethnic Gang Rivalry

3. Inter-Ethnic Gang Rivalry

4. Organized Criminal Accommodations

5. Ethnic Gang Criminal Supremacy

6. Decline and Fall of the Ethnic Gang

 

Chapter 38: Autoerotic Sexual Asphyxia; Turvey

Autoerotic Myths:

1. Age

2. Gender

3. Nudity

4. Transvestism

 

The Objective Criteria:

1. Specialized Mechanism

2. Privacy

3. Solo

4. Sexual Fantasy Aids

5. Dangerous Autoerotic Practice

6. Non- suicidal

 

Chapter 39: Lesbian Cruising; Bullock

Styles of Cruising

1. Strutter

2. Home Base Cruiser

3. Mingler

4. Ego Booster

5. Sojourner

6. Woman in Waiting

7. Game Player

~A break from the lesbian stereotypes