A school of criminology, developed from the late 1960s into the 1970s and associated principally with Meda Chesney-Lind, holding that mainstream criminology had historically ignored or misrepresented women both as offenders and as victims. It centers gender as a core analytic category, and its early advocates for women's equality were met, in Chesney-Lind's own account, by threatening images meant to discourage the movement. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Core ClaimSourced to the subject's own accountMainstream criminology historically ignored or misrepresented women as both offenders and victims; feminist criminology centers gender as a core analytic category, examining how patriarchy and gendered social control shape women's pathways into crime and their treatment by the justice system. 1 Standing CritiqueSourced to the subject's own accountThe standpoint epistemology underlying much of the school has itself been criticized for overgeneralizing women's experience, treating results drawn from some women as though true of all women. 1 Disputed
Origin YearSourced to the subject's own accountThe school developed gradually across the late 1960s and 1970s rather than on one founding date; 1976 marks Carol Smart's Women, Crime and Criminology, a landmark work of the movement rather than its sole origin. Connections
Associated With
Feminist criminology shares critical criminology's structural, radical lineage, while its own literature also documents tension with a critical and Marxist criminology that was largely silent on gender.
Source Wikipedia: Feminist School of Criminology
Prostitution, Offenses Feminist criminology's pathways scholarship traces women's entry into offenses such as prostitution to prior victimization; the cited passage on incarcerated women's own narratives names poverty, addiction, homelessness and sexual abuse as the recurring backdrop.
Source Wikipedia: Feminist School of Criminology
Developed By
Source Wikipedia: Carol Smart
Source Wikipedia: Freda Adler
Source Wikipedia: Feminist School of Criminology
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Feminist School of Criminology
History section
threatening those who aspire for equality with the images of the witch, the bitch, and the whore.
Standpoint epistemology section
Standpoint epistemologies have been criticized for overgeneralizing women, accepting the above results as true for all women.
In Group: Critical, Feminist and Left Realist Criminology, Lead
The feminist school of criminology is a school of criminology developed in the late 1960s and into the 1970s as a reaction to the general disregard and discrimination of women in the traditional study of crime.
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Wikipedia: Freda Adler
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