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Meda Chesney-Lind

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American criminologist who directed national attention to girls' delinquency and women's pathways into crime, a foundational figure in feminist criminology who works to find alternatives to women's incarceration.

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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account
1947 1
BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own account
Woodward, Oklahoma 1
NationalitySourced to the subject's own account
American 1
Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own account
A foundational figure in feminist criminology and the feminist pathways perspective on women's offending. 1
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1. Wikipedia: Meda Chesney-Lind
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Chesney-Lind works to find alternatives to women's incarceration and is an advocate for humanitarian solutions within the Hawaiian criminal justice system.
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Meda Chesney was born in Woodward, Oklahoma, in 1947
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Wikipedia: Feminist School of Criminology
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