NCJ Number
141062
Journal
Journal of Criminal Justice Education Volume: 3 Issue: 2 Dated: special issue (Fall 1992) Pages: 165-181
Date Published
1992
Length
17 pages
Annotation
The curriculum transformation literature from women's studies is used as a model for including feminist perspectives into criminal justice curricula.
Abstract
Feminist perspectives have had major impacts on theoretical and curricular developments in a wide range of academic fields. However, despite the significant volume of feminist scholarship and research in criminology over the past decade, these perspectives do not appear to have had much effect on criminal justice education. McIntosh developed a model that proposes five stages in curricular development: (1) womanless; (2) exceptional women succeeding according to the male standard; (3) women as problem, anomaly, or absence; (4) women as half the human experience; and (5) full integration. In designing courses that correspond to the third and fourth phases of this model, criminal justice educators should focus on the seven objectives. These are (1) emphasis on women's status, (2) valuing women's perspective and experience, (3) praxis, (4) countering male bias in scholarship, (5) valuing women's self-determination, (6) inclusiveness of other forms of oppression in feminism, and (7) feminist pedagogy. The problems involved in accomplishing these objectives will probably include instructors' lack of background and resistance to change. 48 references