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255 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 255 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Sibylle Artz, is Full Professor in Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria. Her research focuses on children and youth who use aggression and violence, particularly girls who use violence. After first working in frontline child and youth care for more than 20 years, she became an academic in the 1990s and has since published more than 50 refereed articles, written two books, Feeling as a Way of Knowing (1994) and Sex, Power and the Violent School Girl (1997), and coedited a third book, Working Relationally with Girls (2004), with Dr. Marie Hoskins. She was chosen in 1998 as Academic of the Year by the Confederation of University Faculty Associations of British Columbia, and in 2004, received the Award of Distinction for Research from the McCreary Youth Foundation of Vancouver. In 2008, she was selected for a Leadership Victoria Award for her many years of community-based research. Marion Brown, PhD, is Assistant Professor and Field Education Research Faculty at the Dalhousie University School of Social Work in Nova Scotia, Canada. Her research in the area of critical girlhood studies focuses on the construction of the female subject, with recent research on the use of violence by girls living in institutional settings. Eve S. Buzawa is Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Rochester, and her master’s and doctoral degrees from the School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University. Dr. Buzawa’s research interests and publications encompass a wide range of issues pertaining to policing, violence, and domestic violence. She has authored and edited numerous books and monographs. Her most recently published book, Domestic Violence: The Criminal Justice Response, will be coming out in its fourth edition shortly. In addition, she is coeditor with Evan Stark of a four-volume set, Violence Against Women in Families and Relationships: Making and Breaking Connections, published in 2009 with Praeger/Greenwood. She has served as a principal investigator on several federally funded research projects that involved working closely with numerous police agencies 256 FIGHTING FOR GIRLS throughout the country, as well as other criminal justice and community agencies. She is experienced at working with police, criminal history, and survey data. In addition, she has administered and been involved in a variety of police training projects. She is past president of the Society of Police and Criminal Psychology, past president of the Northeast Association of Criminal Justice Sciences, and past board member for the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Julie A. Cederbaum is Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include primary and secondary HIV prevention; social work and public health practice with families; and interventions with families and youth. Her most recent work examined mother-daughter communication about abstinence and safer sex. Specifically, she targeted understanding the differences in mother communication and daughter HIV-risk behaviors between HIV-positive and HIVnegative mother-daughter dyads. Dr. Cederbaum received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, her MPH from the University of Pennsylvania, her MSW from UCLA, and her BA from Drew University. Meda Chesney-Lind, PhD, is Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Nationally recognized for her work on women and crime, she is the author of Girls, Delinquency and Juvenile Justice, The Female Offender: Girls, Women and Crime, Female Gangs in America, Invisible Punishment, and Girls, Women and Crime, published in 2004. She has just finished a book on trends in girls’ violence, entitled Beyond Bad Girls: Gender, Violence and Hype. She received the Bruce Smith, Sr. Award “for outstanding contributions to Criminal Justice” from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences in April 2001. She was named a fellow of the American Society of Criminology in 1996 and has also received the Herbert Block Award for service to the society and the profession from the American Society of Criminology. She has also received the Donald Cressey Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency for “outstanding contributions to the field of criminology,” the Founders award of the Western Society of Criminology for “significant improvement of the quality of justice,” and the University of Hawaii Board of Regent’s Medal for “Excellence in Research.” Finally, Chesney-Lind has been included among the scholars working with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s Girls Study Group. In Hawaii, she...

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