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Revisión K

Vol. 15 No. 2 (2023): Julio - Diciembre

Female Criminality: An Approach to the State of the Art

DOI
https://doi.org/10.69664/kav.v15n2a13
Submitted
December 5, 2023
Published
2023-12-25

Abstract

Women are part of transnational organizations dedicated to drug trafficking and human trafficking, gangs, and maras in which they can play different roles at all levels of the hierarchical structure. The reasons for entry include: the conditions of inequality and poverty, which shape certain biographical trajectories in which the saving option of criminal work appears; the forms of socialization associated with patriarchal culture; the idea of sacrifice and abnegation typical of "romantic love;" and the changes of times. Finally, literature highlights a set of social tensions associated with the rise of women in the world of crime.

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