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Feminist Criminology: Gain, Loss and Backlash
Article first published online: 6 DEC 2007
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00052.x
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Moore, D. (2008), Feminist Criminology: Gain, Loss and Backlash. Sociology Compass, 2: 48–61. doi: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00052.x
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- Issue published online: 6 DEC 2007
- Article first published online: 6 DEC 2007
- Sociology Compass 2/1 (2008): 48–61, 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00052.x
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Abstract
Surviving the inevitable process of innovation, critique and response that accompanies conceptual invention, feminist criminology is now a rich and diverse field of scholarship and political activism. This article follows the main threads of feminist criminological thought (empirical, standpoint and post-modern), outlining the tensions and connections between each. I then consider the political ground gained and lost by feminist criminologists, paying careful attention to the ways in which feminist ideas have been co-opted by governing authorities and also considering the current climate of backlash against feminist ideas in both criminal justice policy and the academy.