Citation

Moran LJ. Fem. Leg. Stud. 2010; 18(3): 315-319.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10691-010-9161-2

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Abstract

The fate and future of feminist engagements with criminology is the common agenda of these two books. Adrian Howe's monograph, Sex, Violence and Crime: Foucault and the 'Man' Question, explores that agenda by way of mapping the ongoing marginal position of feminist scholarship within criminology despite the fundamental challenges that feminist scholars have made against various dominant criminological schools of thought. The collection edited by Maureen Cain and Adrian Howe has a different approach. It is made up of 11 essays that collectively address the discipline of criminology through an examination of the intersection of gender, globalization and crime. Both books in their different ways seek to put gender issues on the criminological map. Sex, Violence and Crime argues for the general importance of a Foucault-informed feminist engagement with criminology. Women, Crime and Social Harm: Towards a Criminology for the Global Era offers a discrete, substantive disciplinary interventio...

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