NCJ Number
122722
Journal
International Journal of the Sociology of Law Volume: 18 Issue: 1 Dated: (February 1990) Pages: 1-18
Date Published
1990
Length
18 pages
Annotation
The three traditional approaches used in feminist criminology are less useful than a transgressive approach, which can be developed as an agenda for both men and women.
Abstract
The traditional approaches focus on unequal treatment, the nature of female criminality, and women as victims. In contrast, the transgressive approach goes outside the usual approaches of both criminology and feminist criminology. The three strategies that together make up a transgressive criminology are reflexivity, deconstruction, and reconstruction, as shown by an analysis of the policing of the sexuality of females. The analysis also suggests that an agenda for transgressive criminology should include studies that focus on women only, on the total lives of women and not just on their criminality, on the reasons that males are overrepresented among criminals, on the common assumptions regarding crime and gender, and on the experiences of women's political struggles in other countries. Notes and 78 references.