Feminism and Criminology (eBook)

Ngaire Naffine (Autor)

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2018
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-7456-8327-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This much-needed book is a concise and accessible account of the contribution of feminist thinking to the study of crime. Tracing the intellectual history of criminology from its scientific foundations in the nineteenth century to its recent encounters with postmodernism, Naffine discusses the ways in which the discipline has established its priorities and values, and shows how men became and remain the central interest of the discipline. Criminologists, she argues, are still reluctant to engage with feminist scholarship which questions their agenda.

Naffine argues that for several decades feminists from a variety of disciplines have been studying crime, producing increasingly refined and sophisticated understandings of the phenomenon. Their interests have ranged widely, from the effects of masculinity and femininity on the propensity to offend, to the ways in which class and race affect the gender dimension of crime. They have pursued difficult questions about the nature of knowledge and the meanings of human behaviour in men and women.

Naffine analyses the treatment of women offenders by the criminal justice system, and women as victims of crime - especially violent crime - and argues for a different understanding of sexual relations between men and women within the crime of rape. Finally, she examines how feminist detective fiction can enliven and enhance the study of crime.

Provocative and well-argued, this timely book will be welcomed by students and researchers in women's studies, gender studies, criminology, sociology and law.

Ngaire Naffine is the author of Feminism and Criminology, published by Wiley.

Inhalt

Introduction.

Part 1: A Feminist History of Criminology. .

1. The Scientific Origins of Criminology.

2. The Criminologist as Partisan.

3. Examining our Frames of Reference: Realism to Derrida.

Part 2: Effecting Change.

4. Reinterpreting the Sexes (through the Crime of Rape).

5. Relocating the Sexes (through Crime Fiction).

6. An Ethical Relation.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.

Rezensionen

"This is both a significant and intelligent contribution to the
transformation of criminology by one of the most challenging
feminist theorists working in the field." Carol C. Smart,
University of Leeds

"This thought-provoking book challenges the dominant
criminological tradition from a feminist perspective. But it is
more than a polemical argument about what is omitted and silenced
in that tradition. It is both an intellectual history of
criminology, told in an accessible way and a book of feminist
jurisprudence that will be of interest to students and scholars
working in that area. The book offers a new way of seeing, a new
paradigm for feminist criminology, addressed to criminologists in
general, inviting them to break out of the prison of their own
masculine standpoints and conventional scholarship." Katherine
O'Donovan, University of London

"The book provides an excellent synthesis of ideas relating to
the relationship between feminism and criminology ... essential ...
for its detailed exploration of the intellectual relationship
between feminism and criminology ... Extremely important in
stimulating critical thinking about current directions and
reflections in feminism and criminology." International
Law

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.3.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: accessible account • Book • Century • concise • contribution • Crime • Criminal Proceedings • Criminology • Discipline • Encounters • feminist • Intellectual history • Law • muchneeded • naffine • nineteenth • Postmodernism • priorities • Rechtswissenschaft • Scientific Foundations • Strafverfahren • Study • Ways
• ISBN-10: 0-7456-8327-4 / 0745683274
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-8327-0 / 9780745683270