Meda Chesney-Lind
Biographic Data
| ID | 266366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meda Chesney-Lind |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meda |
| FAMILY NAME | Chesney-Lind |
| SIGNATURE | CHESNEY-LIND M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 184 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Féminisme et criminologie (1988)
Dans la dernière décennie, le monde académique a connu un déferlement de recherches féministes. Les théories, les pédagogies et les méthodes de recherche ont été remises en cause dans toutes les disciplines (par exemple, Abel, Abel, 1983 ; Bowles, Klein, 1983 ; Culley, Portuges, 1985 ; DuBois et al., 1985 ; Griffin, Hoffman, 1986 ; Harding, Hintikka, 1983 ; Klein, 1987 ; Sherman, Beck, 1979 ; Spender, 1981 ; Stanley, Wise, 1983). Le champ de la p…
Policing Sex in the Sunflower State: The Story of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women by Nicole Perry
Studying the history of girls’ and women’s imprisonment is a vital but often neglected area of feminist criminology. A proper understanding of the current patterns, practices, and challenges of female incarceration requires placing these issues in their historical context, as Perry does in this important book. In the tradition of Nicole Hahn Rafter’s Partial Justice: Women, Prisons, and Social Control (Piscataway, New Jersey, 1990), Perry’s histo…
The Value of Hawaiʻi 3: Hulihia, the Turning
“Hulihia” refers to massive upheavals that change the landscape, overturn the normal, reverse the flow, and sweep away the prevailing or assumed. We live in such days. Pandemics. Threats to ʻāina. Political dysfunction, cultural appropriation, and disrespect. But also powerful surges toward sustainability, autonomy, and sovereignty. The first two volumes of The Value of Hawaiʻi ( Knowing the Past, Facing the Future and Ancestral Roots, Oceanic Vi…
Patriarchy, Abortion, and the Criminal System: Policing Female Bodies
This paper argues for a broader consideration of the issue of abortion—one that stresses the centrality of the denial of reproductive rights in the patriarchal policing of women’s bodies and their sexuality. Globally, the estimates of abortion-related deaths in 2014 ranged from 22,500 to 44,000, and countless women are injured or left infertile by seeking illegal abortions. We briefly review international trends regarding abortion politics and th…
Policing Women’s Bodies: Law, Crime, Sexuality, and Reproduction
As we consider the election of Donald Trump as President Elect of the United States, there is perhaps no better time to reflect on the role of the state, and particularly the criminal system, in th
Global War on Girls? Policing Girls’ Sexuality and Criminalizing Their Victimization
This article briefly explores the disconnect between the global discourse on girls’ issues, which really focuses on girls’ rights, and most particularly their right to be free from victimization, and the American focus on girls, which is far more concerned with bad or violent girls. Specifically, the article reviews the increase in girls’ arrests in the United States for offenses like simple assault and the concomitant increase in girls’ share of…
Jill McCorkel, Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment
Latina girls speak out: Stereotypes, gender and relationship dynamics
Violence against women on public transport in Nepal: Sexual Harassment and the Spatial Expression of Male Privilege
Violence against women in public space is a serious, worldwide problem. Essentially, as women move from lives confined to the domestic sphere, their very spatial mobility might be perceived to be a form of defiance and deviance. This article uses a mixed method approach to explore sexual harassment and assault in public transport in Kathmandu, Nepal. Survey data were gathered from 238 college-age women to explore the frequency, type, and seriousn…
Girls, Women, and Crime: Selected Readings
Written by leading scholars in the field, this compilation of journal articles on the female offender surveys four major areas: female criminality; female juvenile delinquents; women as offenders; and women in prison
The Female Offender: Girls, Women, and Crime
'The Female Offender' challenges the long-standing tradition of male-dominated criminology theory and research which has taken little or no account of gender differences
Transformative Feminist Criminology: A Critical Re-thinking of a Discipline
Campus Crime Beat: The Challenges of Doing Feminist Criminology in the Academy
One of the persistent problems with academic life is that one is encouraged to tell the truth, whether in research, the classroom, or the department meeting. For feminists, graduate school in particular stresses the importance of meticulously documenting girls' and women's lives, which have been rendered invisible by virtually all fields. Although these days the idea of truth is contentious, in the real world in which feminist academics and femin…
Relationship Power, Control, and Dating Violence Among Latina Girls
We drew on the theory of gender and power and grounded theory methodology to explore how 18 Latina girls conceptualized power and control within their heterosexual dating relationships. Our findings indicate that boys/men used a number of strategies to control girls, including: regulating appearances and behaviors; cheating and threatening to cheat; and physical and sexual violence. Girls used a variety of strategies to resist these attempts to c…
“She's Way Too Good to Lose”: An Evaluation of Honolulu's Girls Court
This research evaluates the efficacy of a gender-specific, problem-solving court for girl offenders. Official statistics, interview data, and focus group data are utilized to determine whether the court is achieving its stated goals of reducing recidivism, risky behaviors, and confinement for the girls who attend this court program. The present research demonstrates that the program does seem to be effective in terms of reducing both recidivism a…
Discounting Women: Context Matters in Risk and Need Assessment
Patriarchy Matters: Toward a Gendered Theory of Teen Violence and Victimization
This article explores the role that the sex–gender system plays in shaping both the violence and victimization of girls. Taking first the issue of girls' violence, the article argues that steep increases in girls' arrests are not the product of girls becoming more like boys. Instead, forms of girls' minor violence that were once ignored are now being criminalized. Shifting gears, the article explores how “gender-neutral” relabeling of girls' vict…
Thoughts on Feminist Mentoring: Experiences of Faculty Members from Two Generations in the Academy
The Female Offender: Girls, Women, and Crime
Talking Story with Hawaii's Youth: Confronting Violent and Sexualized Perceptions of Ethnicity and Gender
This study reports qualitative data collected between December 1997 and May 1998 regarding ethnic and gender identity among at-risk youth in Hawaii. The data were derived by conducting 13 focus group interview sessions with a diverse sample of adolescents (N = 58) at various youth centers. Findings suggest that identity development theories expand their frameworks beyond the notions of ethnicity and gender. Theoretical frameworks must also incorp…
Giving Everyone a “Fair Go”: A Profile of the Work of Christine Margaret Alder
Reflections on an Accidental Career
Female Gangs in America: Essays on Girls, Gangs and Gender
Challenging Girls' Invisibility in Juvenile Court
Despite the fact that girls account for one of four arrests of juveniles, discussions of delinquency and juvenile justice generally ignore young women and their problems. A review of the nature of female delinquency as well as the juvenile justice system's long-documented bias against girls suggests that careful consideration of girls' issues would shed considerable light on the shortcomings of the juvenile justice system as a whole. Specifically…
On the Basis of: The Changing Face of Harassment and Discrimination in the Academy
This study examines complex relationships between sex, race and overtly harassing or discriminatory experiences within an ethnically diverse university population. A stratified random sample of students (N = 926) at a large western state university were surveyed about their experiences of “protected class” forms of discrimination in the previous year. Findings indicate that despite the racial diversity of the student population at the university,…
Just Every Mother's Angel: An Analysis of Gender and Ethnic Variations in Youth Gang Membership
Few studies of gangs have explored both ethnic and gender variations in the experience of gang membership. Based on an analysis of interviews with 48 youth from a number of ethnic gangs in Hawaii, this article explores boys' and girls' reasons for joining gangs. The results suggest that although gang members face common problems, they deal with these in ways that are uniquely informed by gender and ethnicity. The interviews also confirm that exte…
Latina girls speak out: Stereotypes, gender and relationship dynamics
Visitors as victims crimes against tourists in Hawaii
Women and Crime: The Female Offender
Transformative Feminist Criminology: A Critical Re-thinking of a Discipline
Challenging Girls' Invisibility in Juvenile Court
Despite the fact that girls account for one of four arrests of juveniles, discussions of delinquency and juvenile justice generally ignore young women and their problems. A review of the nature of female delinquency as well as the juvenile justice system's long-documented bias against girls suggests that careful consideration of girls' issues would shed considerable light on the shortcomings of the juvenile justice system as a whole. Specifically…
Violence against women on public transport in Nepal: Sexual Harassment and the Spatial Expression of Male Privilege
Violence against women in public space is a serious, worldwide problem. Essentially, as women move from lives confined to the domestic sphere, their very spatial mobility might be perceived to be a form of defiance and deviance. This article uses a mixed method approach to explore sexual harassment and assault in public transport in Kathmandu, Nepal. Survey data were gathered from 238 college-age women to explore the frequency, type, and seriousn…
Relationship Power, Control, and Dating Violence Among Latina Girls
We drew on the theory of gender and power and grounded theory methodology to explore how 18 Latina girls conceptualized power and control within their heterosexual dating relationships. Our findings indicate that boys/men used a number of strategies to control girls, including: regulating appearances and behaviors; cheating and threatening to cheat; and physical and sexual violence. Girls used a variety of strategies to resist these attempts to c…
Girls, Gangs and Violence: Anatomy of a Backlash
Talking Story with Hawaii's Youth: Confronting Violent and Sexualized Perceptions of Ethnicity and Gender
This study reports qualitative data collected between December 1997 and May 1998 regarding ethnic and gender identity among at-risk youth in Hawaii. The data were derived by conducting 13 focus group interview sessions with a diverse sample of adolescents (N = 58) at various youth centers. Findings suggest that identity development theories expand their frameworks beyond the notions of ethnicity and gender. Theoretical frameworks must also incorp…
Discounting Women: Context Matters in Risk and Need Assessment
Thoughts on Feminist Mentoring: Experiences of Faculty Members from Two Generations in the Academy
Some comments on the national survey on woman abuse in Canadian university and college dating relationships
Judicial Paternalism and the Female Status Offender: Training Women to Know Their Place
Criticism of the juvenile court's jurisdiction over the status offender consistently neglects one important aspect of the issue. As a product of the court's history of extralegal paternalism, status offenses have involved the system in the maintenance of traditional family norms, which require greater obedience and chastity from females than from males. The enforcement of status offenses has created a de facto double standard of juvenile justice …
Women, Crime and the Criminal Justice System
Women Under Lock and Key: A View from the Inside
sumably inspired by the women’s movement, she was beginning to seek equality in the underworld just as her more conventional counterparts were pursuing their rights in more acceptable arenas. These accounts generally relied on two types of evidence to support the notion of a relationship between the women’s rights movement and increasing female criminality: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) statistics showing dramatic increases in the number …
Visitors as victims crimes against tourists in Hawaii
Women and Crime: The Female Offender
Street Woman
Feminism and criminology
In this essay we sketch core elements of feminist thought and demonstrate their relevance for criminology. After reviewing the early feminist critiques of the discipline and the empirical emphases of the 1970s and early 1980s, we appraise current issues and debates in three areas: building theories of gender and crime, controlling men's violence toward women, and gender equality in the criminal justice system. We invite our colleagues to reflect …
Girls' Crime and Woman's Place: Toward a Feminist Model of Female Delinquency
This article argues that existing delinquency theories are fundamentally inadequate to the task of explaining female delinquency and official reactions to girls' deviance. To establish this, the article first reviews the degree of the androcentric bias in the major theories of delinquent behavior. Then the need for a feminist model of female delinquency is explored by reviewing the available evidence on girls' offending. This review shows that th…
Girls, delinquency, and juvenile justice
Devoted solely to the topic of female delinquency and the treatment of young girls by the juvenile justice system. This text reveals the special problems of delinquent girls by considering the impact that growing up female in a patriarchal society has had on their development. It explores the relevance of classic theories of delinquency as applied to female juveniles, and discusses the contemporary reality of the juvenile justice system
Sexual harassment in academia: Students' reactions to unprofessional behavior
Victimization of students on campus remains an important and neglected area of research for criminal justice educators. This study explores gender differences in definitions, attitudes, and judgments of offensiveness of behaviors that fall within the “grey area” of sexual harassment. A random sample of undergraduate students completed questionnaires designed to assess sexual harassment stereotypes. A subsample of these participants also completed…
Some comments on the national survey on woman abuse in Canadian university and college dating relationships
Girls, Gangs and Violence: Anatomy of a Backlash
Just Every Mother's Angel: An Analysis of Gender and Ethnic Variations in Youth Gang Membership
Few studies of gangs have explored both ethnic and gender variations in the experience of gang membership. Based on an analysis of interviews with 48 youth from a number of ethnic gangs in Hawaii, this article explores boys' and girls' reasons for joining gangs. The results suggest that although gang members face common problems, they deal with these in ways that are uniquely informed by gender and ethnicity. The interviews also confirm that exte…
On the Basis of: The Changing Face of Harassment and Discrimination in the Academy
This study examines complex relationships between sex, race and overtly harassing or discriminatory experiences within an ethnically diverse university population. A stratified random sample of students (N = 926) at a large western state university were surveyed about their experiences of “protected class” forms of discrimination in the previous year. Findings indicate that despite the racial diversity of the student population at the university,…
Challenging Girls' Invisibility in Juvenile Court
Despite the fact that girls account for one of four arrests of juveniles, discussions of delinquency and juvenile justice generally ignore young women and their problems. A review of the nature of female delinquency as well as the juvenile justice system's long-documented bias against girls suggests that careful consideration of girls' issues would shed considerable light on the shortcomings of the juvenile justice system as a whole. Specifically…
Giving Everyone a “Fair Go”: A Profile of the Work of Christine Margaret Alder
Reflections on an Accidental Career
Female Gangs in America: Essays on Girls, Gangs and Gender
Talking Story with Hawaii's Youth: Confronting Violent and Sexualized Perceptions of Ethnicity and Gender
This study reports qualitative data collected between December 1997 and May 1998 regarding ethnic and gender identity among at-risk youth in Hawaii. The data were derived by conducting 13 focus group interview sessions with a diverse sample of adolescents (N = 58) at various youth centers. Findings suggest that identity development theories expand their frameworks beyond the notions of ethnicity and gender. Theoretical frameworks must also incorp…
The Female Offender: Girls, Women, and Crime
Thoughts on Feminist Mentoring: Experiences of Faculty Members from Two Generations in the Academy
Patriarchy Matters: Toward a Gendered Theory of Teen Violence and Victimization
This article explores the role that the sex–gender system plays in shaping both the violence and victimization of girls. Taking first the issue of girls' violence, the article argues that steep increases in girls' arrests are not the product of girls becoming more like boys. Instead, forms of girls' minor violence that were once ignored are now being criminalized. Shifting gears, the article explores how “gender-neutral” relabeling of girls' vict…
Discounting Women: Context Matters in Risk and Need Assessment
“She's Way Too Good to Lose”: An Evaluation of Honolulu's Girls Court
This research evaluates the efficacy of a gender-specific, problem-solving court for girl offenders. Official statistics, interview data, and focus group data are utilized to determine whether the court is achieving its stated goals of reducing recidivism, risky behaviors, and confinement for the girls who attend this court program. The present research demonstrates that the program does seem to be effective in terms of reducing both recidivism a…
Campus Crime Beat: The Challenges of Doing Feminist Criminology in the Academy
One of the persistent problems with academic life is that one is encouraged to tell the truth, whether in research, the classroom, or the department meeting. For feminists, graduate school in particular stresses the importance of meticulously documenting girls' and women's lives, which have been rendered invisible by virtually all fields. Although these days the idea of truth is contentious, in the real world in which feminist academics and femin…
Criminology (29 works) · Sociology (27 works) · Psychology (25 works) · Political science (21 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (15 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (7 works) · Economic Justice (6 works)