The girls go to the gang in order to get protection from victimization that's occurring in their lives. And also it's a place to be, because they're often rejected from and rejecting their families. — Meda Chesney-Lind Copy Share Image
Girls often feel very powerless in their lives and their families, and they kind of mimic the male violence as a way to try and get some of that male power that they see lacking in their own lives. — Meda Chesney-Lind Copy Share Image
The most dangerous kind of girl involvement with gangs is one where the girls are just sort of hanging around the gang boys or… — Meda Chesney-Lind Copy Share Image
The gang may be a safer place than home, but it's not without its problems. In some instances, especially in the Latino community, the boys have very traditional views of femininity even though they are gang members. The girls can be [seen] as sexually available, but not the good girl that you want to take home to your family, even… — Meda Chesney-Lind Copy Share
One of the differences between boy gangs and girl gangs is for girls it's much more relational and much less violent. — Meda Chesney-Lind Copy Share Image
There's only one thing worse than not paying attention to girls in gangs - it's paying attention to girls in gangs. The public reaction… — Meda Chesney-Lind Copy Share Image
Violence among boys is so valorized and so encouraged that you have to do things different in violence prevention with boys than with girls. — Meda Chesney-Lind Copy Share Image
When some of the gangs got involved with the drug trade, particularlythe crack cocaine trade, and the lethal violence started to flare up in… — Meda Chesney-Lind Copy Share Image
Girls come to the gang for very different reasons than boys. For boys in marginalized communities, they have a gender problem, and they solve it often through gang membership. They find an ability to do masculinity in a way that reasserts their importance in a society that mostly ignores them. For girls, they're coming out of more damaged backgrounds. Their… — Meda Chesney-Lind Copy Share
The girls go to the gang in order to get protection from victimization that's occurring in their lives. And also it's a place to… — Meda Chesney-Lind Copy Share Image
Girls often feel very powerless in their lives and their families, and they kind of mimic the male violence as a way to try… — Meda Chesney-Lind Copy Share Image
In the '60s and '70s, people didn't pay a lot of attention to gangs. I think gangs still existed, but gangs had fallen out… — Meda Chesney-Lind Copy Share Image
If you socialize people to care about each other and care about relationships, they tend to be much less violent and tend to think… — Meda Chesney-Lind Copy Share Image
If we socialized boys like girls, we would have a much lower crime rate in America. — Meda Chesney-Lind Copy Share Image
