If you socialize people to care about each other and care about relationships, they tend to be much less violent and tend to think about the conseque….

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 ….

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

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 of criminological favor..

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 ofte….

The most dangerous kind of girl involvement with gangs is one where the girls are just sort of hanging around the gang boys or even being part of the….

When some of the gangs got involved with the drug trade, particularlythe crack cocaine trade, and the lethal violence started to flare up in the '80s….

Violence among boys is so valorized and so encouraged that you have to do things different in violence prevention with boys than with girls..

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….

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 to girls and ….

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….

One of the differences between boy gangs and girl gangs is for girls it's much more relational and much less violent..

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