Chesney-Lind, Meda

Meda Chesney-Lind is Professor of Women s Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Hawaii, and a B.A. Summa Cum Laude from Whitman College. She has served as Vice President of the American Society of Criminology and president of the Western Society of Criminology. Nationally recognized for her work on women and crime, her books include "Girls, Delinquency and Juvenile Justice", "The Female Offender: Girls, Women and Crime", "Female Gangs in America", "Invisible Punishment", "Girls, Women and Crime", and "Beyond Bad Girls: Gender Violen...