Meda Chesney–lind

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Meda Chesney–lind

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Bachelors Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara

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Girls, delinquency, and juvenile justice (1991) (887)
Invisible punishment : the collateral consequences of mass imprisonment (2002) (666)
The female offender girls, women, and crime (2013) (595)
Girls' Crime and Woman's Place: Toward a Feminist Model of Female Delinquency (1989) (555)
Feminism and criminology (1988) (530)
Patriarchy, Crime, and Justice (2006) (284)
“JUST EVERY MOTHER'S ANGEL” (1995) (244)
CRIMINALIZING VICTIMIZATION: THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF PRO-ARREST POLICIES FOR GIRLS AND WOMEN (2002) (179)
VISITORS AS VICTIMS Crimes Against Tourists in Hawaii (1986) (176)
Judicial Paternalism and the Female Status Offender (1977) (172)
Gender Bias and Juvenile Justice Revisited: A Multiyear Analysis (2001) (160)
"Women and Crime": The Female Offender (1986) (154)
Women Under Lock and Key: A View from the Inside (1983) (144)
Judicial Enforcement of the Female Sex Role: The Family Court and the Female Delinquent (1973) (138)
Girls Troubles, Girls' Delinquency, and Gender Responsive Programming: A Review (2008) (125)
From invisible to incorrigible: The demonization of marginalized women and girls (2006) (122)
Global Risk Indicators and the Role of Gender in a Juvenile Detention Sample (2006) (110)
Girls in Jail (1988) (105)
Women, crime, and the criminal justice system (1978) (88)
Women In Prison: Inside the Concrete Womb (1996) (85)
Violence by teenage girls: Trends and context (2011) (75)
Juvenile Delinquency: The Sexualization of Female Crime (1974) (71)
Patriarchy Matters (2007) (66)
Transformative Feminist Criminology: A Critical Re-thinking of a Discipline (2013) (65)
Violence against women on public transport in Nepal: sexual harassment and the spatial expression of male privilege (2014) (61)
A reformulation and partial test of the power control theory of delinquency (1991) (61)
Girls, Gangs and Violence: Anatomy of a Backlash * (1993) (57)
Gangs and delinquency (1994) (54)
Beyond Bad Girls: Gender, Violence and Hype (2007) (53)
Patriarchy, Prisons, and Jails: A Critical Look at Trends in Women's Incarceration (1991) (51)
Female Gangs in America: Essays on Girls, Gangs and Gender (2000) (51)
Latina girls speak out: Stereotypes, gender and relationship dynamics (2014) (50)
The Female Offender (1997) (50)
Policing Girlhood? Relational Aggression and Violence Prevention (2007) (47)
Gender Matters (2001) (45)
Are Girls Getting More Violent? (2001) (43)
Are Girls Getting Tougher, or Are We Tougher on Girls? Probability of Arrest and Juvenile Court Oversight in 1980 and 2000 (2011) (41)
Challenging Girls' Invisibility in Juvenile Court (1999) (40)
Girls’ Violence: Beyond Dangerous Masculinity (2008) (40)
Girls and Violence (1987) (38)
Talking Story with Hawaii's Youth (2001) (37)
On the Basis of (1996) (35)
Discounting Women: Context Matters in Risk and Need Assessment (2009) (29)
Girls, Women, and Crime: Selected Readings (2013) (29)
Appearance and Delinquency: A Research Note (1994) (27)
Girls and Status Offenses: Is Juvenile Justice Still Sexist? (1987) (26)
Thoughts on Feminist Mentoring: Experiences of Faculty Members from Two Generations in the Academy (2006) (25)
Representations of Gangs and Delinquency: Wild in the Streets?. (1997) (25)
Dramatic Cures for Juvenile Crime (1983) (25)
Relationship Power, Control, and Dating Violence Among Latina Girls (2012) (24)
Girls and Violence : Is the Gender Gap Closing ? (2004) (24)
Doing Violence to Women: Research Synthesis on the Victimization of Women (1998) (24)
Media Misogyny : Demonizing “Violent” Girls and Women (2017) (21)
Criminology, Gender, and Race (2016) (19)
Growing up mean: Covert aggression and the policing of girlhood (2005) (18)
Female offenders: Paternalism reexamined. (1987) (17)
Dating Violence Victimization Among Asian American and Pacific Islander Youth in Hawai‘i (2008) (16)
"You got to do so much to actually make it": Gender, Ethnicity, and Samoan Youth in Hawai'i (2006) (16)
“She's Way Too Good to Lose”: An Evaluation of Honolulu's Girls Court (2011) (16)
Gender and Race Differences in Delinquent Careers (1993) (14)
Under Lock and Key: Trauma, Marginalization, and Girls' Juvenile Justice Involvement (2010) (14)
"Everything Just Going Down the Drain." Interviews with Female Delinquents in Hawaii. Report No. 319. (1985) (13)
Women and the Criminal Justice System : Gender Matters (2001) (13)
Ethnicity and Gender Issues (2001) (12)
Gender, Delinquency, and Youth Justice (2015) (11)
The Relationship Between Gender and Practitioners' Fear in Working with High-Risk Adolescents (2000) (10)
Girls, Violence, and Delinquency (2001) (10)
Running the Gauntlet: Understanding Commercial Sexual Exploitation and the Pathways Perspective to Female Offending (2016) (10)
Beyond Bad Girls: Feminist Perspectives on Female Offending (2007) (10)
Contextualizing women's violence and aggression: Beyond denial and demonization (1999) (10)
“Someone’s been in the house:” A tale of burglary and trial by media (2015) (9)
The context of girls' violence: Peer groups, families, schools, and communities (2009) (8)
Feminist criminology in an era of misogyny† (2020) (8)
The Meaning of Mean (2002) (8)
Policing Women’s Bodies: Law, Crime, Sexuality, and Reproduction (2017) (8)
Media Representations of Domestic Violence (2017) (8)
Changing Course: Preventing Gang Membership: Chapter 9. How Can We Prevent Girls From Joining Gangs? (2013) (8)
Diversion and Neighborhood Delinquency Programs in Open Settings (1987) (7)
Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself (1997) (7)
Patriarchy, Abortion, and the Criminal System: Policing Female Bodies (2017) (7)
Campus Crime Beat: The Challenges of Doing Feminist Criminology in the Academy (2012) (6)
Global War on Girls? Policing Girls’ Sexuality and Criminalizing Their Victimization (2015) (6)
Silence and the criminalization of victimization: on the need for an international feminist criminology (2013) (5)
Female Status Offenders and Justice Reforms: An International Perspective (1982) (5)
Girls, Gangs and Violence (1997) (5)
Women’s Incarceration in the United States (2017) (5)
Drugs, Violence and Women's Crime (1997) (4)
Arrest Trends, Gang Involvement, and Truancy in Hawaii: An Interim Report to the Twenty- Second Hawaii State Legislature (2004) (3)
Constructions of Honor-Based Violence: Gender, Context and Orientalism (2018) (3)
Just Every Mother's Angel: An Analysis of Ethnic and Gender Variation in Youth Gang Membership (Reprinted from Gender and Society Article) (1997) (3)
Sexual harassment in academia: Students' reactions to unprofessional behavior (1992) (3)
Race and Sex Discrimination in the Academy. (1995) (3)
Cops, lies, and videotape: Police reform and the media in Hawaii (2018) (3)
Sentencing Women to Prison: Equality Without Justice 1 (2019) (2)
Toward a Smaller, Smarter Correctional System for Hawaiʻi (2020) (2)
Reflections on an Accidental Career (2000) (2)
Some comments on the national survey on woman abuse in Canadian university and college dating relationships (1993) (2)
THE SAVED and the DAMNED: RACIAL/ETHNIC DIFFERENCES in MEDIA CONSTRUCTIONS of FEMALE DRUG OFFENDERS (2015) (2)
Abortion Politics and the Persistence of Patriarchy (2019) (2)
Silence and the criminalization of victimization (2013) (1)
Criminalizing Women: Global Strategies for Denying Female Victimization (2016) (1)
Book Reviews : Men Who Rape, A. Nicholas Groth, with H. Jean Birnbaum. Pp. 227. New York, Plenum Press, 1979. $15 (1981) (1)
Gender and Crime (2009) (1)
Equity with a Vengeance (1997) (1)
Girls’ Violence and Juvenile Justice (2011) (1)
Book review: James W Messerschmidt, Gender, Heterosexuality, and Youth Violence (2013) (1)
Girls' Troubles and “Female Delinquency” (2013) (1)
Jill McCorkel, Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment (2014) (1)
An Overview of Safety Challenges In Hawaii's Public Schools (2003) (0)
Book Reviews (1989) (0)
Correspondence Related to DWC news in The Criminologist newsletter, 1992-1993. (2017) (0)
Girls, gangs, violence, and justice (2018) (0)
Hawaii movement illustrates the importance of video evidence and gender violence in police reform (2017) (0)
Policing Sex in the Sunflower State: The Story of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women by Nicole Perry (2022) (0)
Book Review: Barbara Owen, James Wells, and Joycelyn Pollock, In Search of Safety: Confronting Inequality in Women’s Imprisonment (2017) (0)
Book reviews (1991) (0)
Keynote Address, Critical Criminology and Justice Studies Conference 2010 Honolulu: Classrooms or Cells1 (2011) (0)
Book Review (2006) (0)
Women and the Griminal Justice System : Gender Matbrs (2016) (0)
Correspondence related to Division Newsletter, 1986-1990 (2017) (0)
Incarcerated Female: A Growing Population (2013) (0)
Are Girls Going Wild in the New Millennium? Facts and Myths about Girls' Aggression and Violence (2010) (0)
Book Review: The Big Push: Exposing and challenging the persistence of patriarchy (2019) (0)
Trends in Women's Crime (2013) (0)
Time to Think about Patriarchy? (2020) (0)
James Ptacek, Battered Women in the Courtroom: The Power of Judicial Response (2001) (0)
The Juvenile Justice System and Girls (2013) (0)
The Impact of Patriarchy on the Women's Experiences as Workers in the Criminal Justice System (2010) (0)
Transformative Feminist Criminology: A Critical Re-thinking of a Discipline (2013) (0)
Book Reviews (1998) (0)
Gender Differences in Predictors of Detention: Results from the Hawaii Study (2007) (0)
Women, Prison and Crime (1992) (0)
“At-Risk” Latina Girls Speak Out: Traditional Gender Roles, Sexuality, and Relationship Dynamics (2011) (0)
Correspondence related to Nominations and Elections, 1991-94. (2017) (0)
Gendered Punishment Regimes: Girls' and Boys' Experience of Detention (2010) (0)
Running the Gauntlet: Understanding Commercial Sexual Exploitation and the Pathways Perspective to Female Offending (2016) (0)
Giving Everyone a “Fair Go” (2000) (0)
Book Review: Canadian Criminal Justice (1991) (0)
VOLUME II: GENDER, ETHNICITY, AND (2005) (0)
Correspondence Committee. 1990-1999. Women and Publication Patterns in Criminal Justice Journals. (2017) (0)
From Bad to Worse (2000) (0)
Book Review: Violence against Women: Myths, Facts, Controversies (2012) (0)
Gender Matters in Juvenile Justice (2010) (0)
Fighting for Girls (2017) (0)
Book Reviews (2004) (0)
Book Reviews : The Changing Roles Of Women In The Criminal Justice System: Of fenders, Victims And Professionals edited by Imogene Moyer. Waveland Press, Inc., 1992. Second edition. 367 pp. paper (1991) (0)
Book Review: No Safe Haven: Stories of Women in Prison (1999) (0)
Are Girls Tougher, or are We Tougher on Girls? (2009) (0)
Girls, gangs, violence, and justice: an overview (2018) (0)
A critical examination of girls' violence and juvenile justice (2018) (0)
Book Review: Inner lives: Voices of African American women in prison (2006) (0)
Female “Deviance” and Pathways to Criminalization in Different Nations (2020) (0)
Girls Gone Wild (2013) (0)
Correspondence: DWC Nominations and Elections, 1991-94. (2017) (0)
Correspondence: 1986-1990 Division Newsletter Planning (2017) (0)
Correspondence: Committee for DWC Nominations and Elections, 1991-1995. (2017) (0)
Book Review: Susan Dewey, Bonnie Zare, Catherine Connolly, Rhett Epler, and Rosemary Bratton, Outlaw Women: Prison, Rural Violence, and Poverty in the American West (2020) (0)
Critical Criminological Methods (2021) (0)