Meda Chesney-Lind is Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Nationally recognized for her work on women and crime, her books include The Female Offender: Girls, Women and Crime (3rd edition, 2013), Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice (3rd edition, 2004), Female Gangs in America (1999), Invisible Punishment (2002), Beyond Bad Girls: Gender, Violence and Hype (2008), and Feminist Theories of Crime (2011).
Randall G. Shelden is Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. He is the author or co-author of 15 books. Besides three previous editions of
Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice (with Meda Chesney-Lind), his books include
Youth Gangs in American Society (4th edition, 2013),
Delinquency and Juvenile Justice in American Society (2nd edition, 2012),
Our Punitive Society (2010), and
Controlling the Dangerous Classes (2nd edition, 2008). He is co-editor of the online
Justice Policy Journal.
