If you socialize people to care about each other and care about relationships, they tend to be much … - Meda Chesney-Lind

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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 consequences of their actions more.

Care, People, Socialize, Think, Thinking

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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.

Girl, Male, Males, Mimic, Trying, Violence

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, then there was a great deal of public attention on gangs and a great deal of concern about what was going on in these social groups.

Concern, Drug, Flare Up, Groups, Particularlythe, Violence

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.

60S, Attention, Existed, Pay, People, Thinking

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 male gang.

Boys, Girl, Girls, Involvement, Males

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

Boys, Different, Girl, Girls, Prevention, Violence