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Feminist approaches to criminology.
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LAW 423 CRIMINOLOGY FEMINIST APPROACHES TO CRIMINOLOGY Woman, the eternal dark continent of Western culture, is the blind spot of criminological theory. The criminological complex seems content to keep women in the place of beggars at the banquet, feasting on crumbs.1 Traditionally the feminist approach to criminology, similar to the approach in other disciplines of the positivistic sciences, has been one of critique and construction. The feminist critique of classical criminology has focused first on the marginalisation of women in its studies and secondly on the contention that when women are studied, it is in a particularly limited and distorting fashion. Attempts to construct a distinctly feminist criminology have been made with use of methodologies including empiricism and standpoint theory. However, these theories have received criticism for their essentialist assumptions and universal claims. The feminist criminological theories detailed in this opinion have resulted from these criticisms and focus on postmodern ideas which...
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