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![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 traditional views of femininity even though they are gang members. The girls can be [seen] as sexually available, but not the good girl that you want to take home to your family, even by young men in the gangs Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/820/819992/819992.webp "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 traditional views of femininity even though they are gang members. The girls can be [seen] as sexually available, but not the good girl that you want to take home to your family, even by young men in the gangs Picture Quote #1")
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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 Quotes)
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 often rejected from and rejecting their families (Meda Chesney-Lind Quotes)
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 Quotes)
If we socialized boys like girls, we would have a much lower crime rate in America (Meda Chesney-Lind Quotes)
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 (Meda Chesney-Lind Quotes)
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 to apologize (Meda Chesney-Lind Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 (Meda Chesney-Lind Quotes)
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 (Meda Chesney-Lind Quotes)
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 traditional views of femininity even though they are gang members. The girls can be [seen] as sexually available, but not the good girl that you want to take home to your family, even by young men in the gangs (Meda Chesney-Lind Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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. (Meda Chesney-Lind Quotes)