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"Walklate (1998: vi) suggests Feminism and Criminology may be contradictions in terms. To what extent do you agree with her?
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Name: Gareth James Lewis Student Reg. Number: 804992 Module Code: CJS 2011 Module Title: Criminology 2 Module Leader: Adrian Barton "Walklate (1998: vi) suggests Feminism and Criminology may be contradictions in terms. To what extent do you agree with her? "Criminology is an applied discipline which, searches for the causes of crime in order to eradicate the problem" (Muncie et al., 2001:453). It is a term used to include a multitude of topics and approaches and revolves around the central question of 'what causes crime'? Feminism is the theory of the political, economic and social inequality of the sexes and is an organised activity on behalf of women's rights and interests. However from a criminological perspective it has many more definitions and takes on many subcategories, for example; liberal feminism, radical feminism, socialist feminism and postmodern feminism to name the four identified by Walklate (1998). As this essay title is particularly diverse it...
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