Feminist Criminology and Perspectives on Crime Feminist criminology involves the study of the ways in which gender influ

Feminist Criminology and Perspectives on Crime

Feminist criminology involves the study of the ways in which gender influences offending, victimization and responses to crimes in the criminal justice system. It criticizes traditional criminology theories as missing women structures and as making the male behavior as a norm. The relationship between patriarchy, gender inequality, and social structures and the ways in which women become involved in crime as well as how they are treated by the legal structures are of specific interest to feminist scholars. They also explore other topics like gendered violence, economic marginalization, and the combination of race, classes and sexuality in determining the results of justice (Burgess Proctor, 2022). In general, the role of feminist criminology is to ensure that women are visible in crime studies and bring more justice policies to more levels of equality.

Liberal feminism focuses on equality of rights and opportunities. It explores the existence of inequality of treatment through discrimination of education, employment, and the law system and promotes reform in the existing institutions. Radical feminism pays attention to patriarchy as the foundation of the oppression of women and draws verbal emphasis on male violence, in particular, sexual assault and domestic violence. According to Marxist or socialist feminism, the criminalization of women is correlated to capitalism and economic disparity, and the offending patterns of women are determined by poverty and the state of labor exploitation. Intersectional feminism insists that gender interrelates with race, class, and other identities and generates distinctive criminal and justice participation experiences (Potter, 2015). Both views give clear explanations on the effects that structural inequalities have on crime and justice 

References

Burgess Proctor, A. (2022). Feminist pathways perspectives on women’s crime. Feminist Criminology, 17(2), 123 to 140.

Potter, H. (2015). Intersectionality and criminology: Disrupting and revolutionizing studies of crime. Critical Criminology, 23(1), 93 to 110.