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gender entrapment theory  

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  • Gender entrapment theory is a specific micro-level theory that attempts to explain the involvement of battered African American women in crime. Gender entrapment directly refers to the process that African American women who commit illegal activities undergo in response to the threat of violence they receive from their intimate male partners. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race and Crime; Gender Entrapment Theory]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-VH5C53F0-9

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