The Meaning and Gendered Culture of Getting High: Gang Girls and Drug Use Issues

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey P. Hunt ◽  
Karen Joe-Laidler ◽  
Kristy Evans
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Illicit Drugs ◽  
Street Gangs ◽  
Gang Members ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
The Social ◽  
Female Gang Members ◽  
Gang Life

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 interviewed using both a quantitative and a qualitative interview schedule.

Effects of Case Management on Parolee Misconduct

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Longshore ◽  
Susan Turner ◽  
Terry Fain
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Case Management ◽  
Social Services ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Treatment Duration ◽  
Case Manager ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Abuse Treatment ◽  
Health Social Services

The Bay Area Services Network (BASN) provides case management, drug abuse treatment, and links to other health/social services for drug-involved parolees in the San Francisco Bay Area. In a quasi-experimental evaluation, the authors found no difference between BASN and comparison parolees in treatment duration, access to health/social services, drug use days, or criminal recidivism. However, mean scores for dose of case management (number of contacts with case manager) and treatment duration were low among BASN parolees overall. In analyses using BASN parolees only, the authors found those with a stronger case management dose reported fewer drug use days and property offenses. These findings persisted when self-reported abstinence motivation was controlled for as a proxy for self-selection. The effect of case management dose on drug use days was mediated by treatment duration. BASN case management may have had favorable effects on recidivism and drug use when delivered in a sufficient dose.

Cocaine, kicks, and strain: patterns of substance use in Milwaukee gangs

1998 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Hagedorn ◽  
Jose Torres ◽  
Greg Giglio
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Social Control Theory ◽  
Gang Members ◽  
Cocaine Use ◽  
Differential Association Theory ◽  
History Of ◽  
Family Variables ◽  
Female Gang Members

This study describes the patterns of substance use by male and female gang members in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from their teenage years in the 1980s into adulthood. Milwaukee gangs started out as one form of neighborhood-based drug-using peer group. There was much variation in drug use, and family variables explained little of the variation. Male gang members raised in families with a history of gang involvement and drug use were more likely than other gang members to use cocaine and to use it seriously. On the other hand, severe family distress was not related to onset, duration, or seriousness of cocaine use in either males or females. Cocaine use for both males and females increased in adulthood. It appears that the etiology of adult and adolescent drug use may differ. Neither social control theory nor differential association theory is well suited to explain the variations in gang drug use by age or gender.

The Reality and Myth of Weapons and Violence in Gang Life

2016 ◽  
pp. 847-867
Author(s):  
Timothy R. Lauger
Keyword(s):  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Social World ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Gang Members ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Real Element ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Gang Life

Weapons and violence are both real and mythic elements of gang life. Though violence is a real element of gang life, public perceptions about gangs may be exaggerated, invoking the idea of dangerous youth roaming the streets. The image of violent gang members is also embraced and used by youth on the streets to navigate their social world. Gang members often create personal and group-based myths by exaggerating their use of weapons and violence. This chapter examines the division between myth and reality in gang life. It reviews research to establish that weapons and violence are real elements of gang members' lives throughout the world. It further explores how myths emerge among gang members who have ample motivation for fictionalizing violence and weapons use. This chapter relies on the social psychological ideas of social constructionism, interpretive socialization, and identity to explain the existence of myths in gang life.

scholarly journals Capturing illicit drug use where and when it happens: an ecological momentary assessment of the social, physical and activity environment of using versus craving illicit drugs

Addiction ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 110 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth S. Linas ◽  
Carl Latkin ◽  
Ryan P. Westergaard ◽  
Larry W. Chang ◽  
Robert C. Bollinger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Ecological Momentary Assessment ◽  
Illicit Drugs ◽  
Illicit Drug ◽  
Illicit Drug Use ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ecological Momentary ◽  
Momentary Assessment

scholarly journals Public policies for confronting the use of illicit drugs: social perception in a community

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 1050-1058 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Margarete dos Reis ◽  
Anai Adario Hungaro ◽  
Magda Lúcia Felix de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Social Perception ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Illicit Drugs ◽  
Drugs Of Abuse ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Analysis Software ◽  
The Social ◽  
Statistical Analysis Software ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

This study aimed to identify the social perception regarding public policies for confronting the use of drugs of abuse in a community with high indicators of drug-related violence. This is descriptive and transversal research, undertaken in a community in the Northwest of Paraná, using a structured questionnaire administered to 358 inhabitants. The data were analyzed using the Statistical Analysis Software, with simple descriptive analyses being undertaken. Only 13.9% of the interviewees mentioned actions for preventing drug use and combating drug trafficking and violence in the community. The most important problems present in the community were the presence of drugs of abuse (24.9%), the weakness of health care (20.9%), and public safety (13.7%). The action referred to most as essential for combating drug use was increasing policing (55.3%). The interviewees' social perception points to unawareness of, or absence of, actions for preventing and combating drug trafficking in the community.

The Reality and Myth of Weapons and Violence in Gang Life

2016 ◽  
pp. 60-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy R. Lauger
Keyword(s):  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Social World ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Gang Members ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Real Element ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Gang Life

Weapons and violence are both real and mythic elements of gang life. Though violence is a real element of gang life, public perceptions about gangs may be exaggerated, invoking the idea of dangerous youth roaming the streets. The image of violent gang members is also embraced and used by youth on the streets to navigate their social world. Gang members often create personal and group-based myths by exaggerating their use of weapons and violence. This chapter examines the division between myth and reality in gang life. It reviews research to establish that weapons and violence are real elements of gang members' lives throughout the world. It further explores how myths emerge among gang members who have ample motivation for fictionalizing violence and weapons use. This chapter relies on the social psychological ideas of social constructionism, interpretive socialization, and identity to explain the existence of myths in gang life.

Computer Music Network

Leonardo ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 266-267
Author(s):  
Scot Gresham-Lancaster
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Computer Music ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Social Climate ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Type

The social climate and cultural atmosphere of the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 70's early 80's plus the emergence of the nascent microcomputer industry made for a social network and approach that fostered the creation of a new type of collaborative electronic music ensemble with techniques that have come to be known as “Computer Music Network”. A transformation from initial heterogeneous to a more homogeneous underlying paradigm has brought with it aesthetic questions about the reason and evolution of this new genre.

Asian American Youth, the Dance Scene, and Club Drugs

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 695-731 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Hunt ◽  
Kristin Evans ◽  
Eileen Wu ◽  
Alicia Reyes
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Club Drugs ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Social Events ◽  
Club Drug Use ◽  
Club Drug

The available research data on young Asian American drug use is relatively limited compared to the availability of research on other major ethnic groups. Today more published data have highlighted the extent to which drug use is significant and rising in Asian American communities. From our ongoing research on the social context of ecstasy and other club drug use in the San Francisco Bay Area, we analyze data from a total of 56 face-to-face interviews with young Asian American club and rave attendees. We explore the development of a distinctive Asian American experience, in order to understand the attraction of club drugs and the dance scene. We examine the specific social groupings in which they operate, the types of social events they attend, and the nature of their club drug use. We highlight some of the ways in which they construct and express their identities around these social groupings, in terms of ethnic and socio-cultural distinctions as well as other cultural commodities.

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