Feminist Theories of Criminology

Canadian Journal of Communication

This special issue presents a series of papers by scholars who participated in a workshop entitled ‘Men's Groups: Challenging Feminism’,1 which was held at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, 26‐27 May 2014. The workshop was organised by Susan B Boyd, Professor of Law and Chair in Feminist Legal Studies at the UBC Faculty of Law, and was sponsored by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at UBC, the Peter A Allard School of Law, the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies at UBC, and the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law. The aim of the workshop was to bring together feminist scholars from multiple disciplines and multiple national contexts to explore a source of resistance to feminism that has been largely overlooked in scholarly research: the growing number of nationally situated and globally linked organisations acting in the name of men's rights and interests which contend that men are discriminated against in law, education and government funding, and that feminism is to blame for this. This special edition presents eight papers inspired by the workshop, authored by scholars from Canada, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden and the United States. A second special issue comprised of eight other papers inspired by the workshop was published in the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law as volume 28(1) in 2016.

Criminology, 1989

Feminist research has expanded beyond its origins in Women's Studies to influence the more traditionally bounded academic disciplines. Criminology has not been immune to these excursions. This paper presents an overview of feminist theory/methods and its applications within select areas of crime and justice studies. Points of intra-theoretical divergence as well as directions for future feminist contributions are noted. * My thanks to Kathleen Daly, Nicole Hahn Rafter, and N. Craig Smith for their insightful comments on a draft of this paper. I was assisted in my revisions by the criticisms of three anonymous reviewers. All of the above are to be commended for their assistance, but none is responsible for the ideas and arguments contained herein. 1. This is not to suggest that biological reductionism is absent in studiedtheories of male criminality. Such explanations of male crime abound (e.g., Wilson and Herrnstein, 1985). However, with the demise of phrenology, social factors replaced biology as key CRIMINOLOGY VOLUME 27 NUMBER 4 1989 605 606 SIMPSON seemed-whether good or bad-could never be like a man. These observations are not new, but they reflect a different voice, a feminist voice, that has been added to the criminological discourse. The purpose of this review essay is to introduce feminist criminology and its intellectual parent, feminism, to the uninitiated reader. It would be presumptuous to suggest that all relevant studies and arguments about gender and crime are included here. Such an extensive review is more appropriate for a book, and depending on the topic, it has likely already been done and done well (e.g., Eaton,

This article argues that professional literature on national security in Israel, especially during the second Intifada (2000-4), reinforced the invisibility of a range of insecurities informing the lives of women and members of marginalized groups. The authors discuss the problematic of using 'gender' without a feminist perspective and examine the challenges of incorporating the latter into quantitative studies of security, then briefly present their research on women under a situation of political turmoil in Israel to offer intersectionality as a possible resolution. Instead of focusing on (and reifying) differences between women and men, this study located complexity in variations among women by intersecting different social locations, different types of violence and different types of knowledge. The discussion highlights the contribution of intersectionality to overcoming essentialist explanations of women's insecurities during armed conflicts. keywords: feminist theory ✦ gender ✦ political sociology ✦ victim of violence ✦ violence

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Understanding Violence Context and Practice in the Human Services, 2013

Critical Criminology

This article responds to claims advanced by "gender critical" feminists, most recently expressed in a criminological context by Burt (2020) in Feminist Criminology, that the Equality Act-a bill pending in the United States Congress-would place cisgender women at risk of male violence in sex-segregated spaces. We provide legal history, empirical research, and conceptual and theoretical arguments to highlight three broad errors made by Burt and other trans-exclusionary feminists. These include: (1) a misinterpretation of the Equality Act; (2) a narrow version of feminism that embraces a socially and biologically deterministic view of sex and gender; and (3) ignorance and dismissal of established criminological knowledge regarding victimization, offending patterns, and effective measures to enhance safety. The implications of "gender critical" arguments for criminology, and the publication of such, are also discussed.

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy

Gisella Lopes Gomes Pinto Ferreira reviews Criminologia Feminista: Teoria Feminista e Críticas às Criminologias [Feminist Criminology: Feminist Theory and Critiques of Criminologies]