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.

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

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 often through gang membership. They find an ability to do masculinity in a way that reasserts their importance in a society that mostly ignores them. For girls, they're coming out of more damaged backgrounds. Their families are often the reason they get propelled into gang membership.

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

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.

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 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.