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…

- 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 of criminological favor.

- 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 to girls and …

- 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 it ofte…

- 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 about the conseque…

- 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 even being part of the…

- 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 and want …

- 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 and get some of that male…

- 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