While reading chapter eleven of Introduction to Criminology, one of the theories that I’ve read was the Feminist Criminology. Feminist criminology was emerged during the 1970s which was evolved by liberal feminists with the realization that gender was ignored from criminology theory. It was hard to understand why it was ignored seeing as gender played a big part of criminal behavior. This led to feminists realizing the limitation of criminological perspective, which didn’t examine the issue of either race or gender thus “Early feminist criminologists demanded that analyses of crime include consideration of gender in ways that had not occurred before.” (Schram, 2014)
Many of foundations of feminist criminology go all the way back to Cesare …show more content…
In her essay Dorie Klein, a criminologist, stated that feminist criminologist have to address three major challenges: to continue to search for the scientific basis of theories of men’s and women’s criminal behavior, to re-examine gender and racial/ethnic biases in the social sciences, and to develop a new definition of crime. In their article “Feminism and Criminology” Kathleen Daly and Meda Chesney-Lind explained the feminist criminology movement in the United States around the time and provided five elements that help distinguish feminist from other forms of social and political analysis. These five elements are: (1) Gender is not a natural fact but a complex social, historical, and cultural product; it is related to, but not simply derived from, biological sex differences and reproductive capacities, (2) Gender and gender relations order social live and social institutions in fundamental ways, (3) Gender relations are constructs of masculinity and femininity are not symmetrical but are based on an organizing principle of men’s superiority and social and political-economic dominance over women, (4) Systems of knowledge reflect men’s views of the natural and social world; the production of knowledge is gendered, and (5) Women should be at the center of intellectual inquiry, not peripheral, invisible, or appendages to men (Schram, 2014). The five elements helped further the examination of women delinquent behavior and understanding female criminality and gender- specific programming, which is are programs targeted to juvenile girls. Whether or not there could be feminist criminology, Daly and
Many of foundations of feminist criminology go all the way back to Cesare …show more content…
In her essay Dorie Klein, a criminologist, stated that feminist criminologist have to address three major challenges: to continue to search for the scientific basis of theories of men’s and women’s criminal behavior, to re-examine gender and racial/ethnic biases in the social sciences, and to develop a new definition of crime. In their article “Feminism and Criminology” Kathleen Daly and Meda Chesney-Lind explained the feminist criminology movement in the United States around the time and provided five elements that help distinguish feminist from other forms of social and political analysis. These five elements are: (1) Gender is not a natural fact but a complex social, historical, and cultural product; it is related to, but not simply derived from, biological sex differences and reproductive capacities, (2) Gender and gender relations order social live and social institutions in fundamental ways, (3) Gender relations are constructs of masculinity and femininity are not symmetrical but are based on an organizing principle of men’s superiority and social and political-economic dominance over women, (4) Systems of knowledge reflect men’s views of the natural and social world; the production of knowledge is gendered, and (5) Women should be at the center of intellectual inquiry, not peripheral, invisible, or appendages to men (Schram, 2014). The five elements helped further the examination of women delinquent behavior and understanding female criminality and gender- specific programming, which is are programs targeted to juvenile girls. Whether or not there could be feminist criminology, Daly and