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This is the most important book on feminist criminology since Carol Smart's pioneering text, Women, Crime and Criminology, first published in 1976. Feminist Criminology is a timely review of the diverse contributions of feminist perspectives to the once gender blind discipline of criminology. This book is a comprehensive yet concise and sophisticated overview of the contribution of feminist perspectives to criminology since the early 1970s. It addresses what lessons have been learnt and what new directions lie ahead in a world where the relevance of feminism is constantly challenged. I commend this book to all students of criminology, serious scholars of crime and justice, as well as practitioners, as gender is still one of the strongest predictors of crime and violence in society today. Read this book to find out why.

Professor Kerry Carrington, School of Justice,
Queensland University of Technology

Claire Renzetti has written a remarkable book on feminist criminology that needed to be written, showing how far we've come, but also, where we still need to go. Feminist Criminology is interdisciplinary, as it should be, given that criminology and feminism are interdisciplinary. I can't imagine anyone better suited to capture the historical, legal, sociological, and psychological aspects as Renzetti, and she has done so in a manner not only easy to consume, but hard to stop reading.

Professor Joanne Belknap, Institute of Behavioral Sciences,
University of Colorado

Claire M. Renzetti has a fl air for illuminating a variety of feminist theoretical positions and approaches used to look at criminology. This welcome book explores the diversity of feminist criminological theories, emerging concepts, and their transformative potential for research, practice, and knowledge production. Scholars, teachers, and students will gain valuable insight into how to include gender, race, and class into their analyses as well as how to use feminist criminology to create meaningful public policy.

Professor Susan L. Miller, Sociology and Criminal Justice,
University of Delaware

FEMINIST CRIMINOLOGY

Feminist criminology grew out of the Women's Movement of the 1970s, in response to the male dominance of mainstream criminology which meant that not only were women largely excluded from carrying out criminological research, they were also barely considered as subjects of that research.

In this volume, Claire M. Renzetti traces the development of feminist criminology from the 1970s to the present, examining the diversity of feminisms which have developed:

• liberal feminist criminology
• Marxist, radical, and socialist feminist criminologies
• structured action theory
• left realism
• postmodern feminism
• black/multiracial feminist criminology

She shows how these perspectives have made a great impact on the discipline, the academy, and the criminal justice system, but also highlights the limitations of this influence. How far has feminist criminology transformed research and knowledge production, education, and practice? And how can feminist criminologists continue to shape the future of the discipline?

Claire M. Renzetti is the Judi Conway Patton Endowed Chair in the Center for Research on Violence Against Women, and Professor of Sociology, at the University of Kentucky. She is editor of the journal Violence Against Women; co-editor of the Interpersonal Violence book series for Oxford University Press; and editor of the Gender, Crime and Law book series for Northeastern University Press. Her recent research focuses on religiosity and intimate partner violence, and the provision of services for domestic sex traffi cking victims.

KEY IDEAS IN CRIMINOLOGY

SERIES EDITOR: TIM NEWBURN is Professor of Criminology and Social Policy, Director of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics and President of the British Society of Criminology. He has written and researched widely on issues of crime and justice.

Key Ideas in Criminology explores the major concepts, issues, debates, and controversies in criminology. The series aims to provide authoritative essays on central topics within the broader area of criminology. Each book adopts a strong individual line, constituting original essays rather than literature surveys, and offers lively and agenda setting treatments of its subject matter.

These books will appeal to students, teachers and researchers in criminology, sociology, social policy, cultural studies, law, and political science.

Titles in the series:

Penal Populism
John Pratt

Rehabilitation
Tony Ward and Shadd Maruna

Security
Lucia Zedner

Surveillance
Benjamin Goold

Genocidal Crimes
Alex Alvarez

Public Criminology?
Ian Loader and Richard Sparks

Contemporary Critical Criminology
Walter S. DeKeseredy

Feminist Criminology
Claire M. Renzetti

Sentencing
Ralph Henham

Crime News
Chris Greer

Policing
Michael Kempa and Clifford Shearing

FEMINIST CRIMINOLOGY

Claire M. Renzetti

First published 2013
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2013 Claire M. Renzetti

The right of Claire M. Renzetti to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Renzetti, Claire M.
Feminist criminology / Claire M. Renzetti.
pages cm. (Key ideas in criminology)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Criminology. 2. Feminism. 3. WomenCrimes against.
I. Title.
HV6030.R45 2013

364.082dc23

2012046500

ISBN: 978-0-415-38143-7 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-415-38142-0 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-93031-1 (ebk)

Typeset in Garamond 3
by RefineCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk

To the members of the Division on Women and Crime of the American Society of Criminology: I am thankful for your collegiality over these many years and, even more, I am grateful for your friendship.

CONTENTS

This book began to take shape in 2004. I was asked to participate on a Past President's Panel on the Present and Future Status of Criminology at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology (ASC). My talk focused on the extent to which feminist criminologists had succeeded in reforming, if not revolutionizing, mainstream criminology. While noting important changes to the field, I nonetheless emphasized the limited nature of this progress, hoping to cajole those in attendance besides my many friends from the ASC Division on Women and Crime who had come to support me to move beyond merely tolerating feminist criminology and criminologists and instead incorporate gender, race, and class analyses into

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