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Meda Chesney-Lind Biography

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Meda Chesney-Lind is a prominent scholar in the field of Hawaiian cultural and social studies. Born in 1947, she is known for her in-depth research on the indigenous Hawaiian culture.

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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.”

People Thinking Stills Pay Attention Favors Fallen Gang

Author:Meda Chesney-Lind

“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.”

Social Deals Attention Violence Groups Involved Drug Concern Trade Cracks 80s Gang Cocaine Flare Social Groups Flare Up

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“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.”

Way Different Reason Problem Girl Community Ability Boys Importance Gender Solve Backgrounds Coming Out Masculinity Gang Membership Marginalized

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“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.”

Order Girl Protection Rejected Gang Rejecting Victimization

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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.”

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

Girl Differences Boys Violent Gang

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

Ifs America Girl Boys Crime Rate Crime Rates

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“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Care Action Consequence Violent

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“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.”

Want Feels Shows Girl Study Violence Amount Guilt Apologizing Second Thoughts

Author: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.”

Different Girl Boys Violence Prevention

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“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.”

Kind Girl Boys Dangerous Males Gang Involvement Hanging Around Kind Of Girl

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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.”

Way Feels Trying Kind Girl Violence Males Lacking Powerless

Author: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 women who engage in nontraditional behavior - the hysteria that often surrounds girls in these groups - is almost as interesting as the behavior itself.”

Girl Interesting Attention One Thing Groups Behavior Reactions Pay Attention Surround Gang Hysteria

Author:Meda Chesney-Lind

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