@article{10336/30683,
author = {Alonso, Laura},
author = {Loaiza, Lara},
author = {Suárez, Natalia},
author = {Castellanos, Diana},
author = {Cárdenas, Juan Diego},
url = {https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/30683},
abstract = {In Latin America, the participation of women in organized crime has been in the shadow of academic analysis and public debate, given the male dominance in the different illegal economies and the tendency to see criminal activity as a “man's thing” . However, a more detailed examination of drug trafficking, human trafficking and migrant smuggling, based on the gender lens, allows us to appreciate the different roles that women play. After examining different documents, data and information obtained in the field, this investigation, carried out by the Colombian Observatory of Organized Crime of InSight Crime and the Universidad del Rosario, complicates the roles of women within organized crime and questions the tendency to represent women only as victims or in some cases as perpetrators. From cooks and scrapers to owners of drug empires or human smuggling and trafficking networks, women operate in a versatile way and move across a broad spectrum of roles, challenging the existing gender-based division of labor while coexisting with criminal organizations that continue to impose a patriarchal model. Through the description of these roles, the development of two case studies on women and gangs in El Salvador and human trafficking and migrant smuggling on the Colombian-Venezuelan border in Cúcuta, and the construction of profiles of some of the largest protagonists of organized crime in recent times, the investigation takes on the face of a woman. The document also analyzes the use of violence by women, a characteristic commonly attributed to men and male behavior, but which is also a tool used by women in some organized crime structures. Based on the foregoing, as well as an examination of the main factors that lead women to enter organized crime, a series of recommendations are developed to local and national governments and authorities aimed at addressing a phenomenon that, in addition from under-analyzed, it is in full growth.},
keywords = {Mujeres criminales},
keywords = {Genero y crimen organizado},
keywords = {Roles de la mujer en el crimen organizado},
keywords = {Narcocultura},
keywords = {Liderazgo criminal femenino},
keywords = {Economía de la criminalidad},
keywords = {Mujeres delincuente en latinoamerica},
keywords = {Mujeres en las pandillas de El Salvador},
title = {Mujeres y crimen organizado en América Latina: más que víctimas o victimarias},
publisher = {Universidad del Rosario},
publisher = {Insight Crimen},
keywords = {Criminal women},
keywords = {Gender and organized crime},
keywords = {Roles of women in organized crime},
keywords = {Narcoculture},
keywords = {Female criminal leadership},
keywords = {Economy of crime},
keywords = {Women offenders in Latin America},
keywords = {Women in the gangs of El Salvador},
}