The most dangerous kind of girl involvement with gangs is one where the girls are just sort of hanging around the gang… — Meda Chesney-Lind Boys 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… — Meda Chesney-Lind Available Copy Share Image
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 Boys 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… — Meda Chesney-Lind Attention 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… — Meda Chesney-Lind Boys 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… — Meda Chesney-Lind 80s 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… — Meda Chesney-Lind Ability Copy Share Image
The girls go to the gang in order to get protection from victimization that's occurring in their lives. And also it's a… — Meda Chesney-Lind Family 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… — Meda Chesney-Lind Family 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… — Meda Chesney-Lind Attention 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… — Meda Chesney-Lind Action Copy Share Image
If we socialized boys like girls, we would have a much lower crime rate in America. — Meda Chesney-Lind America Copy Share Image
Girls begin to have second thoughts about the violence. Studies show they feel a considerable amount of guilt about it. They feel… — Meda Chesney-Lind Amount Copy Share Image
