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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.