Respond to the questions presented. Your initial response should be at least one paragraph in length.
You are a consultant called in to address the rise in female gang activity and violence. On what theory or theories would you base your intervention? Are the theories based on male delinquency sufficient? Are gender-based theories necessary?
The desire for stability, involvement, belief, and conformity can have a dark side. Consider how mechanisms of social control, narrowly conceived, can support new religious-political, and psychological cults or sects. How does social control theory help explain the attraction to Heavens Gate, the Aum Shinrikyo, the Order of the Solar Temple, or the Branch Davidians?
