Courses Regularly Taught

WS 318: Women and Social Policy [sample syllabus]
WS 362: Sociology of Gender
WS 435: Women and Crime [sample syllabus]
WS 613: Feminist Methods [sample syllabus]

Research Areas

Meda Chesney-Lind is a nationally known criminologist whose areas of specialization include female delinquency, programming for girls in the juvenile justice system, women and crime and issues of women's imprisonment. She is currently working on a book challenging the notion that today's girls are more violent and "mean" than girls in previous decades. She has also been working at both the state and national levels to address issues of more gender responsive programming for girl and women offenders.

Representative Publications

"From invisible to incorrigible: The demonization of marginalized women and girls" With Michelle Eliason (University of Iowa). Crime Media Culture. Volume 2, no. 1, pp. 29-47. 2006

"Girls and Violence: Is the Gender Gap Closing" Applied Research Forum, National Eletronic Network on Violence Against Women.

"Patriarchy, Crime, and Justice: Feminist Criminology in an Era of Backlash." Feminist Criminology. (January 2006). pp. 1-21.