CURRICULUM VITA
MEDA CHESNEY LIND
Women’s Studies Program
University of Hawaii at Manoa 51-451 Haahaa Street
Honolulu, HI 96822 Post Office Box 600
ph. 808-956-6313 Kaaawa, Hawaii 96730
fax. 808-956-9616 808-237-7036
e-mail: meda@hawaii. edu
EDUCATIONAL HISTORY:
Undergraduate: B.A. Summa Cum Laude, Sociology, 1969
Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington
Graduate: M.A. Sociology, 1971
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
Ph.D. Sociology, 1977
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
AREAS OF TEACHING AND RESEARCH SPECIALIZATION
Criminology with a specific focus on girls' delinquency
and women's crime; issues of girls' programming and women's
imprisonment; youth gangs; the sociology of gender with an
emphasis on women and systems of social control; and victimization of women and girls.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
1994-present: Professor, Women's Studies Program, University of Hawaii at Manoa
1998-present: Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Criminal Justice, University of Illinois,
Chicago
1990-1993: Director, Women's Studies Program, University of Hawaii at Manoa
1986-1994: Associate Professor, Women's Studies Program, University of Hawaii at Manoa
1982-present: Graduate Faculty, University of Hawaii at Manoa
1979-1992: Assistant to Associate Researcher, Youth Development and Research Center,
University of Hawaii at Manoa.
1973-1985: Sociology Instructor (Range V), Honolulu Community College
GRANTS AWARDED
1993-2003: Youth Gang Response System Evaluation
These grants allow continued work on the evaluation of Hawaii's Youth Gang Response System. They continue analysis of interviews with current youth gang members, and permit continued research on the self-reported delinquency and gang membership of youth at risk in Hawaii. They also fund the outcome assessment of key programs within the Youth Gang Response System. Contract supervised by the Office of Youth Services, State of Hawaii. Meda Chesney-Lind, Principal Investigator.
Grant Amount: $100,000.00 (FY 1993-95), $100,000 (FY 1995-1997); and $100,000 (FY 1997-1999). $134,000 (FY 1999-2001), $134,000 (FY 2001-2003).
1999-2000: Gender Specific Services in Hawaii
This grant will explore the continuum of services currently provided to female adolescents in the State of Hawaii, with a specific focus on girls in the juvenile justice system. Contract supervised by the Office of Youth Services, State of Hawaii. Meda Chesney-Lind, Principal Investigator.
GRANT AMOUNT: $37,000.00
1997-1998: Juvenile Robbery Project
This grant funds basic research into the dimensions of juvenile robbery in the City and County of Honolulu. Arrests of youth for this relatively serious offense have risen in recent years. Contract with the Office of the Attorney General. Meda Chesney-Lind, Principal Investigator. Grant Amount: $10,860.00.
1997-1999: Development of the Hawaii Informed Prevention System
This grant funds the development of the Hawaii Informed Prevention System for better selection and evaluation of drug and violence prevention programs. Morris Lai: Principal Investigator, Meda Chesney-Lind, James Brandon, and Beth Pateman, Co-Principal Investigators. Source of Award: U.S. Department of Education. Grant Amount: $422,121.00.
1996-1999: Hawaii Girl's Project
This grant funds basic research on the needs of Hawaii's girls, particularly girls at risk of becoming involved in the juvenile justice system. The grant also supports a series of fora on girls needs and girls services. Contract funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Challenge grant program. Funds administered by the Office of Youth Services, State of Hawaii. Meda Chesney-Lind, Principal Investigator.
Grant Amount: $50,000.00. Extension through 1999, $14,000.00
1992: Youth Gang Response System Evaluation
This one year grant continued work on the evaluation of Hawaii's Youth Gang Response System. It supported the gathering of qualitative data on the characteristics and motivations of youth involved in gang activity in Hawaii. Contract was with the Office of Youth Services, State of Hawaii. Meda Chesney-Lind, Principal Investigator.
Grant Amount: $37,079.00
1990: Youth Gang’s In Hawaii: An Evaluation
This is a two year grant established baseline data on the dimensions of the youth gang problem in the State of Hawaii. Also involved in the grant was an assessment and evaluation of the State of Hawaii’s Youth Gang Response System. Meda Chesney-Lind, Principal Investigator. These funds were allocated to the University of Hawaii at Manoa during the 1990 Legislative Session ( Act 189 "Relating to Youth Gangs").
Grant Amount: $66,000.00
1990: Activities for Youth at Risk: Strengthening Recreational Opportunities in the City and County of Honolulu
This two year grant permitted the Center for Youth Research to conduct a study of the activities offered to youths between 13 and 18 years of age by the Department of Parks and Recreation for the City and County of Honolulu in the following communities: Ewa Beach/Makakilo; Waianae/Nanakuli; Waipahu; Kaneohe/Kailua/Waimanalo; Kalihi; Palolo; and Wahiawa. All of these communities were identified in the PAL study (described below) as one’s with serious youth problems. The grant will also allow the Center for Youth Research to assist the Department of Parks and Recreation, City and County of Honolulu, in the planning and development of programs for youth at risk. These funds were allocated to the Department of the Attorney General for distribution to the Center for Youth Research, University of Hawaii at Manoa during the 1990 Legislative Session (Act 189 "Relating to Youth Gangs"). Meda Chesney-Lind, Principal Investigator.
Grant Amount: $50,000.00.
1989: High Risk Youth and the Police Activities League: An Assessment
This grant from the City and County of Honolulu was designed to identify Oahu communities where disadvantaged and/or alienated youth are present; review existing organized recreational programming for those communities and determine where those opportunities for organized recreation are insufficient; consider alternative means of servicing the at risk youth in those communities; review the need for expansion of new Police Activity League (PAL) programming in these communities; and review the feasibility and cost of expanding PAL programming into these communities. Meda Chesney-Lind, Principal Investigator.
Grant Amount: $10,000.00
1989: Cross-Cultural Aspects of Sexual Harassment (co-principal investigator with Alison Adams)
This research project was designed to study both prevalance and reporting of sexual harassment at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. A particular focus of the research were gender and cultural differences in the definition of sexual harassment, the degree of victimization, and the willingness of victims to report sexual harassment in academic settings. Grant Amount: $6,000
1987: Child Sexual Abuse: Development Stage, Life Change, Social Support, and Coping
Grant received from the Research Relations Fund to explore the dimensions of the sexual assault trauma in children by reviewing the growing literature on children's victimization and merging these findings with existing models of child development.
1980: Ho iki Project
A grant to develop a core of pre-collegiate courses for students whose cultural and/or educational background ill-prepared them for college-level work. Grant from the U.H. President's Educational Improvement Fund.
1977-1978: Pilot Project to Reduce Sex Stereotyping in Vocational Education
The grant was a competitive one, awarded to one Hawaii community college to conduct a pilot project to explore the reduction of sex stereotyping in vocational education at the post-secondary level. Grant Amout: $10,000.
1976-1977: The World of Work
A grant to develop a series of courses specifically designed to meet the needs of Honolulu Community College's vocational-technical students was received from the U.H. President's Instructional Improvement Fund.
AWARDS
2001: Bruce Smith, Sr. Award for Outstanding Contributions to Criminal Justice,
Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
2000: Major Achievement Award, Division of Critical Criminology, American Society of
Criminology
1999: Honorary Member, Golden Key National Honor Society, University of Hawaii
1997: Cressey Award, National Council on Crime and Delinquency
1997: Alumna of Merit, Whitman College
1996: Herbert Block Award for Outstanding Services to the Society and the Profession,
American Society of Criminology
1996: Fellow, American Society of Criminology
1995: Headliner, Honolulu Professional Chapter, Women in Communications
1994: Distinguished Scholar Award, Division on Women and Crime, American Society
of Criminology
1994: University of Hawaii Board of Regent's Medal for Excellence in Research
1992: Michael J. Hindelang Award for the most Outstanding Scholarship to Criminology from the American Society of Criminology for Girls, Delinquency and
Juvenile Justice
1992: Paul Tappan Award for Outstanding Contributions to Criminology, Western
Society of Criminology
1988: Fellow, Western Society of Criminology
1987: Named one of the "Ten Who Made a Difference, 1987" by the
Honolulu Star Bulletin.
1969: Honors in Sociology at graduation,Whitman College
1968: Phi Beta Kappa, Whitman College
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Chesney-Lind, Meda and John Martin Hagedorn (eds). Female Gangs in America: Essays on Gender, and Gangs. Lakeview Press, 1999.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. The Female Offender: Girls, Women and Crime. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Inc., 1997. Chapter Five, "Trends in Women's Crime" was reprinted in Crime and Criminals: Contemporary and Classic Readings in Criminology. Frank R. Scarpitti and Amie L. Nielson (eds). Los Angeles: Roxbury, 1999.
Chesney-Lind, Meda and Randall G. Shelden. Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice: Second Edition. Wadsworth: Belmont, 1998. First Edition, 1992.
Journal Articles:
Mayeda, David T. Meda Chesney-Lind, and Jennifer Koo. "Talking Story with Hawaii's Youth: Confronting Violent and Sexualized Perceptions of Ethnicity and Gender" Forthcoming, Youth and Society.
Okamoto, Scott K. and Meda Chesney-Lind. “The Relationship Between Gender and Practitioners’ Fear in Working with High Risk Youth.” Forthcoming Child and Youth Care Forum.
Chesney-Lind, Meda and Scott Okamoto. "Gender Matters: Patterns in Girl's delinquency and Gender Responsive Programming." Forthcoming, Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice.
Chesney-Lind, Meda and Vickie Paramore. "Are Girls Getting More Violent?: Exploring Juvenile Robbery Trends." Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Vol. 17, No. 2, May 2001, pp 142-166.
MacDonald, John M. and Meda Chesney-Lind. "Gender Bias and Juvenile Justice Revisited: A Longitudinal Analysis" Crime and Delinquency Vo. 47, No. 2, April, 2001, pp. 173-195.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Challenging Girls' Invisibility in the Juvenile Court" The Annals. Ira Schwartz (ed.). Vol. 564, July, 1999.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Contextualizing women's violence and aggression: Beyond denial and demonization" (Editorial). Behavior and Brain Sciences 1999, 22(2), 222.
Wundersitz, Joy and Meda Chesney-Lind. "Giving Everyone a 'Fair Go': Biography of Christine Margaret Alder." Women and Criminal Justice. Vol. 11 (2), 1999.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "What To Do About Girls? Promising Perspectives and Effective Programs." The ICCA Journal on Community Corrections. December, 1998, pp. 30-32.
Chesney-Lind, Meda, Hal Pepinski, and Dianne Martin. "A Conversation on the Future of Feminist Criminology." Contemporary Justice Review. Vol.1, pp. 495-511, 1999.
Perrone, Paul and Meda Chesney-Lind. "Media Representations of Gangs and Delinquency: Wild in the Streets?" Social Justice. Vol. 24, No. 4 (1997), pp. 96-117.
Hippensteele, Susan, Meda Chesney-Lind and Rosemary Veniegas. "On the Basis Of...: The Changing Face of Harassment and Discrimination in the Academy." Women and Criminal Justice Vol. 8 (1), 1996, 3-26.
Joe Laidler, Karen A and Meda Chesney-Lind. "Running Away from Home:
Rhetoric and Reality in Troublesome Behavior." Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice Vol. 12, No. 2, May, 1996.
Hippensteele, Susan and Meda Chesney-Lind. 1995. "Race and Sex Discrimination in the Academy: Rethinking Campus Ethnoviolence" Thought and Action. Vol 11: 2, pp. 43-66.
Joe, Karen and Meda Chesney-Lind. 1995. "Just Every Mother's Angel: An Analysis of Ethnic and Gender Variations in Youth Gang Membership." Gender and Society Vol. 9:4 (August): pp. 409-431. This article appears in Brian MacLean (ed). Criminology Reader. Toronto: Copp Clark Longman Publishers, 1996, pp. 155-183, and Criminology at the Crossroads: Feminist Readings in Crime and Justice. Kathleen Daly and Lisa Maher, New York: Oxford Press, 1998, pp. 87-109.
Chesney-Lind, Meda, Anna Rockhill, Nancy Marker, Howard Reyes. 1994. "Gangs and Delinquency: Validating Police Impressions." Crime, Law and Social Change Vol. 21:pps. 201-228.
Rosenbaum, Jill and Meda Chesney-Lind. 1994. "Appearance and Delinquency: A Research Note." Crime and Delinquency Vol. 40: No. 2: pps. 250-261.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. 1993. "Girls, Gangs, and Violence: Re-inventing the Liberated Female Crook." Humanity and Society. Vol. 17: 3, pps. 321-344. This article will also reprinted in The International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice & Penology. David Nelken and Gerald Mars (eds). Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. Forthcoming.
Shelden, Randall and Meda Chesney-Lind. 1993. “Gender and Race Differences in Delinquent Careers.” Juvenile and Family Court Journal. Vol. 44, No. 3, pps. 73-90.
Hippensteel, Susan, Alison K. Adams, and Meda Chesney-Lind. 1992. "Sexual Harassment in Academia: Student Responses to Unprofessional Behavior." The Journal of Criminal Justice Education. Special Issue: Women and Criminal Justice Education. Vol. 3, No. 2: 315-330.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Patriarchy, Prisons, and Jails: A Critical Look at Trends in Women's Incarceration." The Prison Journal. Vol. 51: 1 (Spring-Summer, 1991): 51-67.
Morash, Mary and Meda Chesney-Lind. "A Reformulation and Partial Test of the Power-Control Theory of Delinquency." Justice Quarterly, Vol. 8: 3 (September, 1991): 347-377.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Female Status Offenders and the Double Standard of Justice: An International Problem." International Review of Criminal Policy. Nos. 39-40, 1990, pp. 105-112.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Girls' Crime and Woman's Place: Toward a Feminist Model of Female Delinquency." Crime and Delinquency. 35: 1 (January 1989):5-29. This article also appeared in an anthology, Annual Editions: Criminal Justice 1990/91. Guilford: Dushkin Publishing Group, Spring, 1990, pps. 170-178.
Daly, Kathleen and Meda Chesney-Lind. "Feminism and Criminology." Justice Quarterly 5: 4 (December, 1988) 101-143. This article also appeared, in edited form, in Laura Kramer, The Sociology of Gender. New York: St. Martins Press, 1991, pps.-410-428, and in full in Peter Cordella and Larry Siegel, Readings in Contemporary Criminological Theory. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996 and Criminological Theory: Past to Present, Francis Cullen and Robert Agnew (eds). Los Angeles: Roxbury, 1999.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Girls in Jail." Crime and Delinquency 34 (April, 1988):150-168. This article also appeared in William E. Thompson and Jack E. Bynum (eds.) Juvenile Delinquency: Classic and Contemporary Readings. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1991, pps. 523-537.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Girls and Status Offenses: Is Juvenile Justice Still Sexist?" Criminal Justice Abstracts.20 (March, 1988):144-165.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Women and Crime: A Review of the Literature on the Female Offender." Review essay for Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Vol. 12:1 (Autumn, 1986):78-96. Reprinted in Gender, Crime and Feminism. Ngaire Naffine (ed.), Brookfield, VT: Dartmouth Publishing, 1995.
Chesney-Lind, Meda and Ian Y. Lind. "Visitors as Victims: Crimes Against Tourists in Two Hawaii Counties." Annals of Tourism Research. Vol. 13 (1986): 167-191.
Ghali, Moheb and Meda Chesney-Lind. "Sex Bias and the Criminal Justice System: An Empirical Investigation." Sociology and Social Research. Vol. 70:2 (January, 1986): 164-171.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Sexist Juvenile Justice: A Continuing International Problem." Resources for Feminist Research. Vol. XIV, No. 4. (Dec./Jan., 1985/1986): 7-9.
Chesney-Lind, Meda and Noelie Rodriguez. "Women Under Lock and Key: A View from the Inside." The Prison Journal, 63:3 Autumn-Winter, 1983): 47-65.
Buckner, John and Meda Chesney-Lind. "Dramatic Cures for Juvenile Crime: An Evaluation of a Prisoner-Run Delinquency Program." Criminal Justice and Behavior. Vol. 10:2 (June, 1983): 227-247.
Hancock, Linda and Meda Chesney-Lind. "Female Status Offenders and Juvenile Justice Reforms: An International Perspective." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. 15 (June), 1982: 109-122.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Judicial Paternalism and the Female Status Offender: Training Women to Know their Place." Crime and Delinquency, April, 1977, Vol. 23, No. 2, pps. 121-130. Note: This article has appeared in Critical Perspectives on Juvenile Justice: The Children of Ishmael edited by Barry Krisberg and James Austin and published in 1978 by Mayfield Publishing Co. It has also appeared in Richard Allison (Ed.), Status Offenders and the Juvenile Justice System, National Council on Crime and Delinquency: Hackensack, 1978, and Women and Crime in America. Edited by Lee Bowker, New York: Glencoe, 1981.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Juvenile Delinquency: The Sexualization of Female Crime." Psychology Today. July, 1974: 43-46. This article has been published in Bobbs-Merrill Co.'s Readings in Criminal Justice and has also been translated into Spanish for use in Psychology Today's Spanish affiliate.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Judicial Enforcement of the Female Sex Role: The Family Court and the Female Delinquent." Issues in Criminology. Vol. 8:2 (1973):51-70.
Chapters in Books:
Bloom, Barbara and Meda Chesney-Lind. "Women in Prison: Vengeful Equity." Forthcoming, It's a Crime: Women and the Criminal Justice System. Roselyn Muraskin (ed). Forthcoming: Prentice Hall.
Kemph-Leonard, Kimberly, Meda Chesney-Lind and Darnell Hawkins. "Ethnicity and Gender Issues.” Child Delinquents: Development, Interventions, and Service Needs Rolf Loeber and David P. Farrington (eds). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2001, 247-272.
Chesney-Lind, Meda and Karlene Faith. "What About Feminism? Engendering Theory-Making in Criminology." Explaining Criminals and Crime: Essays in Contemporary Criminological Theory. Ray Paternoster and Ronet Bachman (eds). Los Angeles: Roxbury Press, 2001, pp. 287-302..
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Out of Sight/Out of Mind: Girls and the Juvenile Justice System." Women, Crime and Justice: Contemporary Perspectives. Lynne Goodstein and Claire Renzetti (eds). Los Angeles: Roxbury, 2001, pp. 27-43.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Girls, Violence and Delinquency: Popular Myths and Persistent Problems" Youth and Justice (Handbooks of Law and Social Science), Susan O. White, ed., Plenum Press, 2001, pp. 135-158.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "What to do about Girls." Assessment to Assistance: Programs for Women in Community Corrections. Maeve McMahon (ed). Lanham, MD: American Correctional Association, 2000.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Media Misogyny: Demonizing 'Violent' Girls and Women. Jeffrey Ferrel and Neil Websdale (eds). Making Trouble: Cultural Representations of Crime, Deviance, and Control. Jeff Ferrell and Neil Websdale (eds). New York: Aldine, 1999, pp. 115-141.
Chesney-Lind, Meda and Marilyn Brown, "Girls and Violence: An Overview." Youth Violence: Prevention, Intervention, and Social Policy. Daniel J. Flannery and C. Ron Huff (eds). Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Press, 1999, pp. 171-200.
Websdale, Neil and Meda Chesney-Lind, "Doing Violence to Women," Masculinities and Violence, Lee H. Bowker, ed. Research on Men and Masculinities Series, Sage Publications, 1998, pp. 55-82.
Chesney-Lind, Meda and Barbara Bloom. "Feminist Criminology: Thinking about Women and Crime." Thinking Critically About Crime. Brian MacLean (ed.): Vancouver: Collective Press, 1997.
Bloom, Barbara, Marilyn Brown, and Meda Chesney-Lind. "Mentally Ill Women on Probation and Parole." The Challenge of Community Corrections: Caring for Persons with Mental Illness on Probation and Parole, Art Lurgio (ed). Seattle: National Coalition for Mental and Substance Abuse Health Care in the Justice System. 1996, pp. 51-77.
Chesney-Lind, Meda, Randall G. Shelden, and Karen A. Joe, "Girls, Delinquency, and Gang Membership," Gangs in America, Second Edition, C. Ronald Huff, ed. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1996, pp. 185-204.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Sentencing Women to Prison." in Race, Gender and Class in Criminology: The Intersection. Martin D. Schwartz and Dragan Milovanovic, eds. New York: Garland Press, 1996, pp. 127-140.
Chesney-Lind, Meda and Joycelyn Pollock-Byrne. "Women's Prisons: Equality with a Vengence." in Women, Law and Social Control. Joycelyn Pollock-Byrne and Alida Merlo (Eds.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Rethinking Women's Imprisonment: A Critical Examination of Trends in Women's Incarceration." in Women, Crime, and Criminal Justice. Barbara Raffel Price and Natalie Sokoloff (Eds.). New York: McGraw Hill, 1995. pp. 105-117.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Girls, Delinquency and Juvenile Justice: Toward a Feminist Theory of Young Women's Crime." in Women, Crime, and Criminal Justice. Barbara Raffel Price and Natalie Sokoloff (Eds.). New York: McGraw Hill, 1995, pp. 71-88.
Immarigeon, Russ and Meda Chesney-Lind. “Women’s Prisons: Overcrowded and Overused” in Its a Crime: Women and Justice. Roslyn Muraskin and Ted Alleman (Eds.). New York: Prentice Hall, 1993, pp. 242-259.
Federle, Katherine and Meda Chesney-Lind. "Special Issues in Juvenile Justice: Gender, Race and Ethnicity." in Ira M. Schwartz, ed. in Juvenile Justice and Public Policy: Toward a National Agenda. Lexington: Lexington Books, 1992: pp. 165-195.
O'Donnell, Clifford R., Michael J. Manos and Meda Chesney-Lind. "Diversion and Neighborhood Delinquency Programs: A Social Network Interpretation." in Behavioral Approaches to Crime and Delinquency: A Handbook of Application, Research and Concepts. Edward K. Morris and Curtis J. Braukmann (Eds.). New York: Plenum Press, 1987.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Female Offenders: Paternalism Re-Examined." Women, the Courts and Equality. Laura L. Crites and Winifred Hepperle (Eds.). Newbury Park: Sage, 1987.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Girls and Violence: An Exploration of Sex Differences in Serious Delinquent Behavior." Childhood Aggression and Violence: Sources of Influence, Prevention and Control. David H. Crowell, Ian M. Evans and Clifford O'Donnell (Eds.), New York: Plenum, 1987.
Hancock, Linda and Meda Chesney-Lind. "Juvenile Justice Legislation and Gender Discrimination." Juvenile Delinquency in Australia. Alan Borowski and James Murray (Eds.). Australia: Methuen, 1985.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Guilty By Reason of Sex: Young Women and the Juvenile Justice System." Natalie J. Sokoloff and Barbara Raffel Price (Eds.). The Criminal Justice System: An Anthology on Women Offenders, Victims and Workers. New York: Clark Boardman, Ltd., 1982 (this book was reprinted four times).
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "From Benign Neglect to Malign Attention: A Critical Review of Research Trends in Female Delinquency." Justice for Young Women: Close-Up on Critical Issues. Sue Davidson, (Ed.). Tucson: New Directions for Young Women, 1982.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Re-Discovering Lilith: Misogyny and the 'New' Female Criminal", in The Female Offender. in Curt Taylor Griffiths and Margit Nance, (Eds). Vancouver: Criminology Research Centre, Simon Fraser University, 1980: pp. 1-36.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Young Women in the Arms of the Law," in Women, Crime and the Criminal Justice System, Lee Bowker (Ed.), Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1978. This chapter has been reprinted in Teenage Women in the Juvenile Justice System: Changing Values. Ruth Crow and Ginny McCarthy, (Eds.).Tucson: New Directions for Young Women, 1979.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Chivalry Re-examined: Women and the Criminal Justice System," in Lee Bowker (Ed.), in Women Crime and the Criminal Justice System, Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1978.
National Policy Monographs:
Chesney-Lind, Meda. 1997. What About Girls? Hidden Victims of Congressional Juvenile Crime Control. Policy Report. Justice Policy Institute. Washington, D.C.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. 1996. "Women in Prison: Punishing Victims as Penal Policy." Critical Criminal Justice Issues: Task Force Reports from the American Society of Criminology. Washington, D.C.: National Criminal Justice Reference Service, summary p. 70 (longer report also available from NCJRS/NCJ 158904).
Chesney-Lind, Meda and Wayne Matsuo. Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice in Hawaii. Philadelphia: Center for the Study of Youth Policy, January, 1995.
Bloom, Barbara, Meda Chesney-Lind, and Barbara Owen. Women in California Prisons: Hidden Victims of the War on Drugs. San Francisco: Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, 1994.
Immarigeon, Russ and Meda Chesney-Lind. Women’s Prisons: Overcrowded and Overused. San Francisco: National Council on Crime and Delinquency, 1992.
Book Reviews in National Journals:
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Review of Battered Women in the Courtroom: The Power of Judicial Response. by James Ptacek. Boston: Northeastern University Press. 1999. Forthcoming, Crime, Law and Social Change.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Review of Harsh Punishment: International Experiences of Women's Imprisonment Sandy Cook and Sue Davies (editors) (1999). Women's Review of Books. Vol XVII, No. 5, February, 2000, pg. 3. Also reprinted in Curious Rooms: A Literary Journal. Christine Japely, editor. Issue #2, forthcoming.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Review of Sex, Power, and the Violent School Girl, by Sibylle Artz (1998). Violence and Victims. Forthcoming.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Review of No Safe Haven: Stories of Women in Prison by Lori Girshick (Autumn, 1999). Criminal Justice Review. Vol. 24: 2, pp. 211-212.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Review of When She Was Bad: Violent Women and the Myth of Innocence by Patricia Pearson. Women and Criminal Justice Vol 10 (4), 1999.
Chesney-Lind, Meda and Susan Hippensteele. Review of Sexual Assault on Campus by Martin Schwartz and Walter DeKeseredy. Justice Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 2, June, 1998, pp. 367-372.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Review of Nothing Bad Happens to Good Girls by Esther Madriz for Women's Review of Books. December, 1997, p. 17.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Review of Delinquent Daughters by Mary Odem. Social Pathology. Vol 3, No. 2.pp. 136-139.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Review of The Tailhook Report by Office of the Inspector General. St. Martins Press, for Journal of Social Anarchism. No.20 (1995): 77-81.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Review of The Changing Roles of Women in the Criminal Justice System. by Imogene Moyer (ed.). Criminal Justice Policy Review. Forthcoming.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. 1994. Review Essay of Karlene Faith, Unruly Women: The Politics of Resistence Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1993. and In Conflict with the Law: Women and the Canadian Criminal Justice System. Vancourver: Press Gang Publishers, 1993. The Criminologist. Vol. 19, No. 6: pps. 22-23.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. 1993. Review of Women and Crack Cocaine. by James Inciardi, Dorothy Lockwood, and Anne E. Pottieger. The Criminologist. Vol. 18 (5): pps. 19-20.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Review of Partial Justice: Women, Prisons, and Social Control by Nicole Hahn-Rafter. Women and Criminal Justice 4:1 (1992), pp. 177-181.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Review of Domestic Violence: The Criminal Justice Reponse by Eve S. Buzawa and Carl G. Buzawa. American Journal of Criminal Justice. 16: 2 (1992): 159-161.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Review of Women, Prison and Crime by Joycelyn Pollack-Byrne, Criminal Justice Review. 17: 163-165, 1992..
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Review of Policing Domestic Violence by Susan S. M. Edwards. Crime, Law and Social Change. 15: 157-160, 1991.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Review of Canadian Criminal Justice by Curt T. Griffiths and Simon Verdun-Jones for Internation Criminal Justice Review. Volume 1, 1991.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Review of Capitalism, Patriarchy and Crime by James Messerschmidt for Gender and Society. 3:1 (March, 1989): 132-134.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Review of Educating the Reflective Practitioner by Donald A. Schon for Thought and Action 4 (Spring, 1988):131-134. An abbreviated version of this appeared in Teaching and Learning 2:5 (February 1989):1-6.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Review of Street Women by Eleanor Miller for Contemporary Sociology: An International Journal of Reviews 16:3 (May, 1987):379-380.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Review of Prisons in Canada by Luc Gosselin. Montreal, Black Rose Books, 1982 for Journal of Social Anarchism. Vol. 4:1 (1984): 33-36.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Review of the Struggle to be Human: Crime Criminology and Anarchism by L. Tifft and D. Sullivan for Journal of Social Anarchism. Vol. 3:1, 1982.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Review of Women in the Criminal Justice System by Clarice Feinman, Criminal Justice History. Vol. III, 1982: 183-185.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Review of Men Who Rape by A. Nicholas Groth and H. Jean Birnbaum, Crime and Delinquency. January, 1981: 143-145.
Articles in National News Journals, Newsletters, and Magazines:
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Are Girls Closing the Gender Gap in Violence."Criminal Justice. American Bar Association. Vol 16: 1. Spring, 2001, pp.18-23.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "What About Girls? Delinquency Programming as if Gender Mattered." Corrections Today. February, 2001, pp.38-45.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Women and the Criminal Justice System:
Gender Matters" Topics in Community Corrections. Annual Issue 2000. U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Corrections, pp. 7-10.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "The Forgotten Offender: Women in Prison." Corrections Today. December, 1998, pp.66-73.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. 1997 (Winter). "Feminism and Critical Criminology: Toward a Feminist Praxis" The Critical Criminologist, Vol. 7, No. 2 and 3, pp. 2-4.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. 1997. "Equity with a Vengeance." Women's Review of Books. Vol XIV. Nos. 10-11. July, pp 5-6.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Putting the Brakes on the Building Binge." Corrections Today. August, 1992, pps. 30-34.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Young Women and Delinquency." The World and I. April, 1990. pps. 481-485.
Immarigeon, Russ, and Meda Chesney-Lind. " Alternatives to Prison are Few but Effective." New Directions for Women. March/April, 1990. pg. 10.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Doing Feminist Criminology." The Criminologist. 13 (July-August, 1988):1,16-17. An abbreviated version of this essay appears in John E. Farley, Introduction to Sociology. Prentice-Hall, 1992, pp. 230-231.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Women's Prison Reform in Hawaii: Trouble in Paradise." Jericho. 43 (Spring, 1987): 7-8.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Guilty by Virtue of Sex." Youth Forum. Vol. 2, No. 4, Special Issue, 1978, p. 3.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Juvenile Delinquency: The Sexualization of Female Crime." Psychology Today. July, 1974: 43-46. This article has been published in Bobbs-Merrill Co.'s Readings in Criminal Justice and has also been translated into Spanish for use in Psychology Today's Spanish affiliate.
Comments, Research Notes, and Introductions:
Chesney-Lind, Meda. 2000. "Reflections on an Accidental Career." Women and Criminal Justice. Vol. 11. No. 4, pp. 3-4.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Foreword. Female Offenders: Critical Perspectives and Effective Solutions. Ruth Zaplin (ed). Gaithersburg, Maryland: Aspen Publishers, Inc. 1998.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Foreword. 1997. Crime Control and Women: Feminist Implications of Criminal Justice Policy. Susan L. Miller (ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Preface. 1995. International Perspectives in Criminology. Nicole Hahn Rafter and Frances Heidensohn (eds.). Buckingham: Open University Press.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Foreword. 1995. Women in Prison: Revised Edition by Katherine Watterson. Boston: Northeastern University Press.
Hippensteele, Susan, Meda Chesney-Lind, and Rosemary Veniegas. 1993. "Comment on 'The Incidence and Prevalance of Woman Abuse in Canadian University and College Dating Relationships: Preliminary Results of a National Survey'." Journal of Human Justice. Vol. 4:2, pp. 67-72.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "An Overview." Thought and Action 3 (Fall, 1987): 3-7.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Introduction. Justice for Young Women: Close-Up on Critical Issues. Sue Davidson (Ed.). Tucson: New Directions for Young Women, 1982.
Manuscripts in Preparation:
Chesney-Lind, Meda and Marc Mauer (eds). Collateral Damage: The Social Impact of Mass Incarceration. Forthcoming The New Press.
Christine Alder and Meda Chesney-Lind. Different Not Difficult: Working with Girls.
Book Manuscript under contract with Wadsworth. In process.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. The Female Offender: Girls, Women and Crime. Second Edition. Under contract with Sage Publications. In process.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Remember the Ladies: Effective Programming for Female Offenders. Monograph in preparation for the International Community Corrections Association. Harry Allen. Series Editor.
Chesney-Lind, Meda and Sibylle Artz. “Girls and Violence.” Chapter in preparation for Handbook on Violence, Linda Rapp-Paglicci, Allen R. Roberts, John S. Wodarski (eds).
Chesney-Lind, Meda. “Unruly Girls and Women: An Overview of Female Criminality.” Forthcoming, Blackwell Companion to Criminology, Colin Sumner (ed.).
Articles in Local News Journals, Newsletters, and Magazines:
Johnson, David and Meda Chesney-Lind. "Does Hawaii Really Need Another Prison." Honolulu Advertiser. March 29, 1998, B-4.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Building More Prisons Won't Make Hawaii Better." Honolulu Star-Bulletin, February 6, 1998, A-21.
Perrrone, Paul and Meda Chesney-Lind. "Media Presentations of Juvenile Crime in Hawaii: Wild in the Streets? Crime Trend Series. Vol. 6, Issue 1, Dept. of the Attorney General, Crime Prevention and Assistance Division, February, 1998.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Justice for Young Criminals: First, Let's Separate Crime Myths from Facts." Honolulu Advertiser. August, 17, 1997, B6
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Prostitution: Harsh Penalties Don't Help Society; the Real Victims are Young Women" Honolulu Star Bulletin March 6, 1995, A-9.
Sophia, Catherine and Meda Chesney-Lind. "Course Evaluations and Instructional Development: Faculty Views. OFDAS Reports. Honolulu: Office of Faculty Development and Academic Support, 1994.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Data Indicate Women Receive Fewer Benefits" Honolulu Star Bulletin August 15, 1994, A-11.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Troubled Kids Need Services--Not Prosecution." Honolulu Star Bulletin January 1, 1993, A-25.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Thoughts on Feminist Teaching." In Celebration of Teaching. University of Hawaii: Center for Teaching Excellence, 1991.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "There’s a Better Way to Treat Women Prisoners." Honolulu Star Bulletin. March 9, 1990, pg. A-17.
SERVICE IN REGIONAL AND NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Offices Held:
1995-1997 Member, Steering Committee, Division on Critical Criminology, American
Society of Criminology
1993-1994: Vice President, American Society of Criminology
1992-1993: Vice President-elect, American Society of Criminology
1992: President, Western Society of Criminology
1989-1991 Chair, Women and Crime Division, American Society of Criminology
1988-1990: Executive Counselor, Women and Crime Division, American Society of
Criminology
1987-1991: Executive Counselor, Western Society of Criminology
Committee Memberships:
2000-2001: Program Committee, American Society of Criminology
2000- present : Member, Taskforce on Girls in the Justice System, Am. Bar Assn.
1999-2000: Nominating Committee, American Society of Criminology
1999-2000: Advisory Committee, Juvenile Law Clinic, University of Florida
1998-1999: Nominating Committee, American Society of Criminology
1997-1998: Nominating Committee, American Society of Criminology
1996-1997: Area Coordinator, Program Committee, American Society of Criminology
1996-Present Member, Justice Policy Institute, Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice
1995-Present Technical Expert Group, Female Adolescents, CSAP
1995-1997: Member, Statewide Policy Committee, American Society of Criminology
1994-1995: Program Committee, American Society of Criminology
1994-Present Chair, Ethics Committee, American Society of Criminology
1993-Present Chair, Discipline Advisory Committee in Criminology, Council for
International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright Scholar Program)
1993-Present Member, Gangs Working Group, National Institute of Justice
1993-1994: Fellows Committee, American Society of Criminology
1989-1990: Committee on Nominations, American Society of Criminology
1988-1989: Distinguished Scholar Committee, Crime, Law and Deviance Section,
American Sociology Association
1988-1989: Fellows Committee, American Society of Criminology
1987: Program Committee, American Society of Criminology
1986-1987: Fellows Committee, American Society of Criminology.
1985-1986: Fellows Committee, Division on Women and Crime, ASC.
1981-Present: Center Associate, National Resource Center, Girls Clubs of America.
1978-1983: Member, National Advisory Board to the Federally funded New Directions Advocacy Project
Editorial Board Memberships:
Series Editor, Women and Criminal Justice, SUNY University Press
Women and Criminal Justice, Deputy Editor
Charter Member (1984-1987), Review Panel, Thought and Action
Crime and Delinquency
Criminology
Criminal Justice
Theoretical Criminology
Journal of Research on Crime and Delinquency
Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice
Journal of Social Anarchism
Justice Quarterly
Western Criminology Review
Referee:
American Journal of Criminal Justice
Aggressive Behavior
Annals of Tourism Research
Criminal Justice Review
Criminology
Economic and Social Research Council, United Kingdom
Gender and Society
Gender Issues
Journal of Crime and Justice
Journal of Gambling Behavior
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
Journal of Quantitative Criminology
Justice Quarterly
Law and Society
National Science Foundation
Psychology of Women Quarterly
Signs
Social Problems
Sociological Spectrum
Theoretical Criminology
Violence and its Victims
Women and Criminal Justice
Consultant:
National Institute of Corrections, Member, Planning Group, Critical Issues in Managing Women Offenders
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Gender Specific Training
National Institute of Justice
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Female Adolescent TAG
National Criminal Justice Commission
United Nations, Criminal Justice Branch
Restitution Education, Specialized Training and Technical Assistance (RESTTA) Program
Memberships:
American Society of Criminology
Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
Western Society of Criminology
Center for Research on Women
Hawaii Sociological Association
Hawaii Criminal Justice Educators Association
Sociologists for Women in Society
INVITED PRESENTATIONS TO REGIONAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS
Chesney-Lind, Meda. “Remember the Girls: Keeping Female Adolescents on the Public Agenda.” Eleventh Annual Minnesota Conference on Adolescent Females. April 19-20, Minnetonka, Minnesota.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Women's Lives, Women's Crimes" Women Offenders: Through the Eyes of a Child: Minnesota Symposium. Minneapolis, Minnesota. September 20, 2000.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Framing the Issues: Girls and Gangs" Princess or Predator: We are Not Who You Say We Are: Chicago Conference on Girls and Violence. Northeastern Unversity, Chicago, Illinios. May 22, 2000.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Girls, Violence, and Delinquency" Reckless Lecture, Ohio State University. Columbus, OH. May 17, 2000.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Women's Pathways to Crime." Plenary Presentation to the National Symposium on the Female Offender. Office of Justice Programs. Washington, D.C. December 13-15, 1999.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Trends in Women's Imprisonment and Policy Implications: National Institute of Corrections Workshop" for Eight National Workshop on Adult and Juvenile Female Offenders. Chicago, Illinois. September 12-15, 1999.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Women in Prison: A National Perspective." Keynote Presentation. North Carolina Conference on Women in Prison. Museum of the New South. Charlotte, North Carolina. October 13-14, 1998.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "What to Do About Girls." Presented to the Research Conference, "What Works: Women and Juvenile Females in Community Corrections" International Community Corrections Association Annual Meeting, Arlington, Virginia, Sept. 27-30, 1998.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Girls, Women and Crime." Lansdowne Lecturer, University of Victoria, May 12, 1998, Victoria, British Columbia.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Girls and Violence" Presley Lecture Series, Robert Presley Center for Crime and Justice Studies, University of California, Riverside, March 9, 1998, Riverside, California.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Girls, Gangs and Juvenile Justice." National Conference on Women. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, September 21-24, 1997. Phoenix, Arizona.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Gender Specific Alternatives and Perspective for Cook County Juvenile Offenders." Presentation to the Cook County Board of Commissioners and the Juvenile Female Offender Project. Chicago, Illinois, April 25, 1997.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Girls and Juvenile Justice." Presentation to Working with Young Women in Juvenile Justice and Related Areas: A Participative Conference. Melbourne, Australia, July 10-11, 1995.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "And the Girls Disappear...Programming for Girls at Risk." Keynote presentation, Minnesota Conference on Adolescent Females, April 21, 1995. This presentation was also given to the Hawaii Conference on Adolescent Females, June 21, 1995.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Who is the Female Juvenile Offender." Presentation to the Gender-Specific Services and Technical Assistance Workshop. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, July 27, 1994.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Women in Prison." Presentation to the Critical Issues in Managing Women Offenders Course. National Institute of Corrections, July 11, 1994.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Feminist Praxis" Keynote address presented at the Western Association of Sociology and Anthropology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, April 15, 1993.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Girls and Delinquency." Keynote Presentation, Come Into the Sun: A Conference on Young Women in Conflict with the Law, San Francisco, CA, October 14, 1992.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Girls, Delinquency and Social Control." Public Presentation, Sponsored by the Criminology Department and Community Services Victoria, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, July 23, 1992
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Girl's Delinquency and Services for Girls: An Overview." Testimony presented to the Special Hearing on Girls' Services and Juvenile Justice, Subcommittee on Human Resources, Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives, March 16, 1992.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Patriarchy, Prisons and the Control of Women" Invited paper to be presented at a special thematic session or plenary session of the American Society of Criminology Meetings, San Francisco, California, November, 1991.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Patriarchy and Prisons." Invited presentation at an International Feminist Conference on Women, Law and Social Control, Montreal, Canada, July, 1991.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Public Attitudes towards Juvenile Justice: A Reaction Statement" Paper presented at Rethinking Juvenile Justice: A National Seminar. Spring Hill Conference Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June, 1982.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "From Benign Neglect to Malign Attention: A Critical Review of Research Trends in Female Delinquency." Paper presented at "Who Speaks for Young Girls Today?" A National Seminar on the Needs of Young Women, Smith College, July, 1981.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Re-Discovering Lilith: Misogyny and the 'New' Female Criminal", invited presentation to "The Female Offender: An International Symposium," January 29 - February 2, 1979, Vancouver, Canada.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Young Women in the Arms of the Law," Paper presented at the National Conference, Changing Values: Teenage Women in the Juvenile Justice System, Tucson, Arizona, November 3-6, 1977.
Technical Reports and Local Monographs:
Chesney-Lind, Meda, Konia Freitas, and Nancy Marker. Programs Matter: Girls' Offenses and Gender Specific Programming in Hawaii. Honolulu: Center for Youth Research, July 2000, Report No. 408.
Chesney-Lind, Meda, David Mayeda, Jennifer Koo,Scott Okamoto, Nancy Marker, Konia Freitas, and Vickie Paramore. An Inquiry into Youth Crime and Violence in Hawaii: Interim Report to the Twentieth Hawaii State Legislature. Honolulu: Center for Youth Research, March 2000, Report No. 406.
Chesney-Lind, Meda, Konia Freitas. Working with Girls: Exploring Practitioner Issues, Experiences, and Feelings. Honolulu: Center for Youth Research, June 1999, Report No. 403.
Chesney-Lind, Meda, David Mayeda, Scott Okamoto, Vickie Paramore, and Nancy Marker:
Delinquency and Gangs in Honolulu, Vol 1: Prevelance, Vol 2: Response, Vol. 3: Sourcebook, Honolulu: Center for Youth Research, February, 1999. Report No. 399.
Chesney-Lind, Meda, David Mayeda, and Vickie Paramore. Juvenile Robbery Arrests in Honolulu: An Overview. Honolulu: Crime Prevention and Justice Assistance Administration, Department of the Attorney General, January, 1999.
Chesney-Lind, Meda, Jennifer Koo, and David Mayeda. Issues of Gender and Ethnicity Among At Risk Youth in Hawaii: Identity, Ethnic Relations, Aspirations and Self-esteem. Honolulu: Center for Youth Research, September, 1998, Report No. 397.
Chesney-Lind, Meda, Jennifer Koo, Debbie Kato, and Katie Fujiwara Clark. Girls at Risk: An Overview of Gender-Specific Programming Issues and Initiatives. Honolulu: Center for Youth Research, April, 1998, Report No. 394.
Chesney-Lind, Meda, David Mayeda, Nancy Marker, Vickie Paramore, and Scott Okamoto. Trends in Delinquency and Gang Membership: An Interim Report to the Hawaii Legislature. Honolulu: Center for Youth Research, Report Number 393, February, 1998.
Chesney-Lind, Meda, Debbie Kato, Jennifer Koo, and Katie Fujiwara Clark. Girls at Risk: An Overview of Female Delinquency in the Fiftieth State. Honolulu: Center for Youth Research, September, 1997, Report No. 392.
Chesney-Lind, Meda, et al. Perspectives on Delinquency and Gangs: An Interim Report to Hawaii's State Legislature, 1996. Honolulu: Center for Youth Research, February, Report No. 382.
Chesney-Lind, Meda et al. Crime, Delinquency, and Gangs in Hawaii. A Report to the Eighteenth Hawai'i State Legislature. Honolulu: Center for Youth Research, January, 1995, Report No. 374. Reprinted by Hawaii Dept. of Education Resource Book on Culturally Fair Assessment for Minority Students.
Chesney-Lind, Meda et al. The Youth Gang Response System: A Process Evaluation. A Report to the Eighteenth Hawai'i State Legislature. Honolulu: Center for Youth Research, January, 1995, Report No. 375.
Chesney-Lind, Meda et al. Programs for Youth: Responding to Gangs in Hawai'i. A Report to the Eighteenth Hawai'i State Legislature. Honolulu: Center for Youth Research, January, 1995, Report No. 376.
Joe, Karen A., Meda Chesney-Lind, Rhonda Liu, and Anna Rockhill. Just Every Mother's Angel: Interviews with Hawaii Gang Members. A Report to the 17th Hawaii State Legislature. Honolulu: Social Science Research Institute, January 24, 1994. Reprinted by Hawaii Dept. of Education Resource Book on Culturally Fair Assessment for Minority Students.
Chesney-Lind, Meda and Anna Rockhill. Putting Juvenile Crime Trends in Perspective. Honolulu: Social Science Research Institute, July 15, 1993.
Rockhill, Anna, Meda Chesney-Lind, Joe Allen, Nestor Batalon, Elise Garvin, Karen Joe, and Michele Spina. Surveying Hawaii's Youth: Neighborhoods, Delinquency and Gangs. Honolulu: Social Science Research Institute, March 25, 1993.(accepted for reproduction, National Criminal Justice Reference Service, National Institute of Justice).
Chesney-Lind, Meda. et al. Gangs and Delinquency in Hawaii. Report to the Hawaii Legislature. January, 1992 (accepted for reproduction, National Criminal Justice Reference Service, National Institute of Justice).
Chesney-Lind, Meda. et al. An Evaluation of Act 189: Hawaii’s Response to Youth Gangs. January, 1992 (accepted for reproduction, National Criminal Justice Reference Service, National Institute of Justice).
Stern, Jeffrey, Meda Chesney-Lind, Nancy L. Marker, Valerie Song, and Karen MacAlpine. Strengthening Recreational Opportunities in the City and County of Honolulu: An Action Plan. November, 1991.
Karen MacAlpine Weller, Nancy Marker, Meda Chesney-Lind, Jeffrey Stern, Janet Yocum, and Clayton Mahuka. Faclitities Usage Report for the City and County of Honolulu Department of Parks and Recreation. June 30, 1991.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. et al. An Evaluation of Act 189: Hawaii’s Response to Youth Gangs. January, 1992 (accepted for reproduction, National Criminal Justice Reference Service, National Institute of Justice).
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Keith Kameoka, and Allison Yap. High Risk Youth and the Police Activities League. Center for Youth Research, Report No. 343, July, 1989. (accepted for reproduction, National Criminal Justice Reference Service, National Institute of Justice).
Response to Senate Resolution 148, House Draft One Requesting a Study of Youth Gangs. Report Submitted to the Fifteenth State Legislature, January 1989.
Daly, Jennifer. Alison K. Adams, and Meda Chesney-Lind. Child Sexual Abuse: An Annotated Bibiography. Center for Youth Rsearch, Report No. 342, February, 1989.
Chesney-Lind, Meda, Keith Kameoka, Jack Nagoshi, Miki McGarvey, Joann Tsuda, and Jan Nakamoto. Hawaii Risk Instrument: A Preliminary Report. Youth Development and Research Center, Report No. 330, August, 1986 (accepted for reproduction, National Criminal Justice Reference Service, National Institute of Justice).
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Raising the Drinking Age: A Brief Overview of the Data. Youth Development and Research Center, Report No. 327, June, 1986.
Chesney-Lind, Meda (Ed.). Preventing and Surviving Sexual Assault in Hawaii. Honolulu: City and County of Honolulu, 1985.
Koroki, Jan and Meda Chesney-Lind. "Everything Just Going Down the Drain: Interviews with Female Delinquents." Youth Development and Research Center, Report No. 319, October, 1985. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 273-696).
Chow, H., J. Kaku, L. Tsubota, Jack Nagoshi, Meda Chesney-Lind, Keith Kameoka, and Joyce Tanji. Contested Child Custody Issues on Oahu: A Social Work Perspective. Youth Development and Research Center, Report No. 316. May, 1985.
Lee, G. S. Moritsugu, Joyce Tanji, Jack Nagoshi, Meda Chesney-Lind, Keith Kameoka, and Joyce Tanji. Divorce in Hawaii. Youth Development and Research Center, Report No. 315, May, 1985.
Ikeda, Lisa, Meda Chesney-Lind, and Keith Kameoka. The Honolulu Anti-Truancy Program: An Evaluation. Youth Development and Research Center, Report No. 310, March, 1985.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Education and Delinquency in Hawaii: Some Thoughts on the Prevention of Crime. Youth Development and Research Center, Report No. 307, January, 1985.
Kawa'a, Pat, Jack Nagoshi, Keith Kameoka, and Meda Chesney-Lind. Project 75: Nine Year Follow-up. Youth Development and Research Center, Report No. 305, January, 1985.
Ignacio, Al, Eva Metz-Serrao, E. Wolcott-Yuen, Jack Nagoshi, Meda Chesney-Lind, Joyce Tanji, Keith Kameoka, and Stuart Nakamoto. Recidivism of the 1979 Adult Probation Population, Third Circuit Court, Hawaii. Youth Development and Research Center, Report No. 303, July, 1984.
Urieff, Pat, Jack T. Nagoshi, Meda Chesney-Lind, and Stuart Nakamoto. The Furlough Program: An Evaluation. Youth Development and Research Center. Report No. 298, May, 1984.
Nagoshi, Jack, Pat Zych, Meda Chesney-Lind, Joyce Tanji, and Stuart Nakamoto. Recidivism of Dischargees from the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility 1974-1878. Youth Development and Research Center, Report No. 296, April, 1984.
Chesney-Lind, Meda, Ian Y. Lind and Hasan Schaafsma. Salient Factors in Hawaii's Crime Rate. Youth Development and Research Center, Report No. 286, 1983.
Hernandez, Filberto, Linda Sakamoto, Jack Nagoshi and Meda Chesney-Lind. Recidivism: A Study of the 1974 Adult Probation Population. Youth Development and Research Center, Report No. 280, September, 1982.
Nagoshi, Jack T. and Meda Chesney-Lind. Trends in Juvenile Arrests, City and County of Honolulu. Youth Development and Research Center, Report, No. 272. April, 1982.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Ike Na Pa'ahao (The Experience of the Prisoners): Evaluation, Youth Development and Research Center, Report No. 258, March, 1981.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Motherhood As Option or Destiny: Pregnancy Decision-Making Among Childless Women. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Hawaii, 1977.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. Female Juvenile Delinquency in Hawaii. Unpublished Master's Thesis. Department of Sociology, University of Hawaii, 1971.
MAJOR PRESENTATIONS TO LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Girls Delinquency in Hawaii: An Overview" The Sale of Innocence: Examining Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Runaway Females on the Big Island.. October 13, 2000, Naniloa Hotel, Hilo.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Hawaii's Women Looking Forward, Looking Back" Hawaii Federation of Business and Professional Women and Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women. May 6, 2000, Radisson Waikiki Prince Kuhio Hotel.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Women and HIV: the Risky Intersection" Aids Educators' Quarterly Meeting. October 29, 1999, American Red Cross.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Girls, Sexuality and Risk--a 90s Perspective" Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii Annual Meeting. January, 1999, YWCA of Hawaii.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Girls and Gender in Hawaii" Ka Mana o na Kaikamahine: The Power of Girls, sponsored by the Hawaii Girls Project. October 29, 1998, Tokai University.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Crime and Imprisonment in Hawaii" Legislative Briefing, House and Senate Judiciary Committees. January, 1998. Sponsored by the ACLU of Hawaii.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Hawaii's Youth Gangs" National Association of Social Work, Hawaii Chapter. Stopping Violence: The Social Work Response. March 24, 1995.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Girls and Gangs in Hawaii." Hawaii Women Lawyers Women's Forum, April 29, 1994.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Strengthening Our Voices." Luncheon Address to the Statewide Women's Conference 1993. Sponsored by the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, December 4, 1993.
Rockhill, Anna, and Meda Chesney-Lind. "Gangs and Delinquency: the Hawaii Experience." Paper presented to the Hawaii Sociological Association, March 20, 1993.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Women in Prison in Hawaii: the Case for Decarceration." Presentation made to Update on Women and the Law: Women's Legal Rights in Hawaii--Women's Prison Issues in Hawaii. Sponsored by Hawaii Women Lawyers, September 25, 1992.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. “Streetkids and HIV.” Presentation to the Governor’s Committee on HIV/AIDS, State of Hawaii, May 22, 1992.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. “An Evaluation of Hawaii’s Response to Youth Gangs.” Presentation to Gang Response System Workshop. February 26, 1992. A similar, but shortened version of this presentation was made to the Hawaii Sociological Association Meetings, March 21, 1992.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. “Hawaii”s Youth Problems.” Presentation to the System of Care Seminar, December 16, 1991.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. “Coping With Sexual Harassment in the Workplace. Presentation to Hawaii Women Lawyers, November 15, 1991.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Youth Gangs in Hawaii: An Overview of the Problem." Presentation to the Hawaii Association of School Librarians and the Hawaii Library Association, October 6, 1990.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Alternatives to Incarceration in Hawaii." Presentation made to the Annual Meeting of the Hawaii Correctional Association, September 13, 1990.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Prisons or Progress for Hawaii’s Women" Presentation made to the First Unitarian Church of Honolulu, July 8, 1990. This presentation was based largely on testimony presented a joint hearing of the Committee on Human Services and the Commitee on Health of the House of Representatives, State of Hawaii on March 7, 1990.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Nature and Extent of Hawaii’s Gang Problem." Presentation to the House Working Group on Youth Issues, Hawaii State Legislature, November, 1989. A revised version of this presentation was given to the Office of Youth Services, State of Hawaii, Youth Gang Retreat, Kuilima, Hawaii, January 10-11, 1990. This presentation has also been given to several other policy making and community bodies.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "An Overview of Troubled/Alienated Youth." Kalani High School Parent Community Networking Center-Sponsored Panel Discussion, Troubled Youth: In the Home, School, and the Courts, March 22, 1989.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "An Overview of the Problem of Rape in Hawaii." Presented as part of a series of panels organized by Chaminade University entitled Crime: Its Prevention, the Victims, December 8, 1988.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Rape in Paradise" Short television spot prepared for the League of Women Voters's "Speak out, Hawaii" series. Taped and shown by KFVE-TV, August, 1988.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Sexual Harassment in the Academy: an Overview of the Dimensions of the Problem." Colloquium presentation, Department of Sociology and Sociologists for Women in Society, October 6, 1988.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Girls in Trouble: A Feminist Perspective." Presentation made to U.H. Child Development Interest Group, September 27, 1988.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Beyond Cinderella: Women, Love, and Modern Marriage." Presentation given to the University of Hawaii Clerical Council, April 14, 1988.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "The Reagan Years: A Feminist Assessment." Presentation made at the University of Hawaii at Hilo's Women's History Month symposium, March 7, 1988.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Girls' Victimization and Female Delinquency: A Neglected Relationship." Presentation given at the Annual Convention of the Hawaii Psychological Association, December 4, 1987.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Feminism and Criminology: Transforming the Study of Crime." Presentation given at a University of Hawaii Colloquium organized by the Sociologists for Women in Society, November 24, 1987.
Chesney-Lind, Meda and Susan Chandler. "Feminization of Poverty." Presentation to the National Association of Social Workers Hawaii/Alaska Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 4-6, 1987.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Sexual Abuse of Girls and Women's Crime." Presentation made at a panel I was asked to organize on the topic "The Role of Sexual Abuse of Girls in the Oppression of All Women." YWCA Brown Bag Seminar, April 29, 1987.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Juvenile Restitution - An Idea Whose Time Has Come." Presentation made to Juvenile Restitution Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 27, 1987.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. “The Female Offender.” Presentation to the Hawaii Correctional Association, January 31-31, 1986.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "Education and Delinquency: Some Thoughts on the Prevention of Crime." Presentation made to the Hawaii Correctional Association, January 10, 1985.
Chesney-Lind, Meda and Barbara Mickey. "Hawaii's Women Look Forward." Presentation given to the 7th Annual Maui Women's Conference, October, 1983.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "The Family in Perspective." Presentation given to the Annual Meeting of the Maui Mental Health Association, November, 1982.
Chesney-Lind, Meda. "The Plight of Women in the Criminal Justice System." Schutter Foundation Legislative Symposium, December, 1981.
SERVICE IN UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
Local Offices Held and Committee Membership:
2000-2003: Member, Research Council, University of Hawaii
2000-2002: Member, Faculty Senate, University of Hawaii
1999-2001: Member, Juvenile Justice State Advisory Council, State of Hawaii
1999-2000: Member, Prevention Policy Board, YMCA of Oahu, Leeward Branch
1998-1999: Member, Hawaii Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Dept. of Health, State
of Hawaii
1999: Member, University-wide Advisory Committee on Honorary Degrees
1999: Member, Advisory Committee, Hawaii's State Strengthening Project, Hawaii Cooperative Extension Service
1998-1999: Member, Procurement Committee, Unversity of Hawaii
1997-2001: Member, Principal Investigators Advisory Committee, University of Hawaii
11997- Girls Advisory Board, Boys and Girls Clubs of Honolulu
1997-2000: Board Member, University of Hawaii Professional Assembly
1994-1996: Board Member, Hale Ho'Omaka Na Wahine
1993-1995: Faculty Senate, University of Hawaii at Manoa
1992-1994: UH Commission on the Status of Women (ex officio)
1989-1990: Secretary, Board of Directors, John Howard Association of Hawaii
1989-1990: Advisory Board, Hawaii Youth Project of the National Center on
Institutions and Alternatives
1988-1989: Chair, Executive Committee, Faculty of Arts and Science
1987: Faculty Senate Special Committee on Sexual Harassment
1987: Vice-chair, Executive Committee, Arts and Sciences Faculty Senate
1987: Safety Taskforce, Decisions '87: Strategies for a Stronger Community
1986-1988: Advisory Committee, University of Hawaii Alumni Affairs Office
1983-1986: Research Council, University of Hawaii.
1983-1986: Board of Directors and Executive Committee,University of Hawaii Professional Assembly
1983-1991: Honolulu County Committee on the Status of Women
1982-1983: Board of Directors, Young Women's Christian Association of Oahu
1981-1983: Clerk, Hawaii Area Executive Committee of American Friends Service Committee
1981-1982: President, Hawaii Sociological Association
1981-1982: John Howard Association, Long-Range Planning Committee
1979-1980: Committee on Administration, East Honolulu YWCA
1979-1980: Special Assistant to President Fujio Matsuda
1978-1980: Editorial Board, Ferity (a woman's newsletter), University YWCA
1978-1979: Chairperson, Faculty Council Executive Committee, Honolulu Community College
1972-1981: Board of Directors, John Howard Association of Hawaii
1970: President Harlan Cleveland's Preparatory Committee for University Governance