Criminology at the Crossroads

Thia anthology contains key works in criminology and law by well-known feminist scholars, including Carol Smart, Kristin Bumiller, Hilary Allen, Meda Chesney-Lind, Kathleen Ferraro, and Regina Austin. Themes include the construction of women in feminist, legal and criminological discourses; the blurred boundaries of victimization and criminalization; masculinities and violence; and intersections of class-race-gender. Daly and Maher's introduction gives a brief overview of the field, past and present, and analyses shifts in feminist thinking from the 1970s to the 1990s.

1: Kathleen Daly and Lisa Maher: Crossroads and Intersections: Building from feminist critique; Part I Women of Feminist, Legal, and Criminological Discourses; 2: Carol Smart: The woman of legal discourse; 3: Kristen Bumiller: Fallen angels: the representation of violence against women in legal culture; 4: Hilary Allen: Rendering them harmless: the professional portrayal of women charged with serious violent crimes; 5: Kerry Carrington: Postmodernism and feminist criminolgies: disconnecting discourses?; Part II Blurred Boundaries of Victimization and Criminalization; 6: Karen A. Joe and Meda Chesney-Lind: "Just every mother's angel": an analysis of gender and ethnic variations in youth gang membership; 7: Lisa Maher and Richard Curtis: Women on the edge of crime: crack cocaine and the changing contexts of street-level sex work in New York City; 8: Kathleen Daly: Women's pathways to felony court: feminist theories of lawbreaking and problems of representation; Part III Masculinities and Violence; 9: Patricia Yancey Martin and Robert A. Hummer: Fraternities and rape on campus; 10: Joyce E. Canaan: Is "doing nothing" just boys' play? Integrating feminist and cultural studies perspectives on working-class young men's masculinity; 11: Kenneth Polk: Masculinity, honour, and confrontational homicide; Part IV Crossroads and Intersections of Class-Race-Gender, Politics, and Justice; 12: Kathleen J. Ferraro: Policing woman battering; 13: Sherene Razack: What is to be gained by looking white people in the eye? Culture, race, and gender in cases of sexual violence; 14: Laureen Snider: Feminism, punishment, and the potential of empowerment; 15: Regina Austin: "The black community," its lawbreakers, and a politics of identification