Boys Quote by Meda Chesney-Lind

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

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…

— Meda Chesney-Lind

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

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

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

Girls come to the gang for very different reasons than boys. For boys in marginalized communities, they have a gender problem, and they solve…

— Meda Chesney-Lind

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

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

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

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

If we socialized boys like girls, we would have a much lower crime rate in America.

— Meda Chesney-Lind

Girls begin to have second thoughts about the violence. Studies show they feel a considerable amount of guilt about it. They feel bad later…

— Meda Chesney-Lind