Criminology at the Crossroads

This anthology contains key works in criminology and law by well-known feminist scholars including Carol Smart Kristin Bumiller Hilary Allen Meda Chesney-Lind Kathleen Ferraro and Regina Austin. Themes include the construction of women in feminist legal and criminological discourses; the blurred boundaries of victimization and criminalization; masculinities and violence; and intersections of class-race-gender. Daly and Maher''s introduction gives a brief overview of the field past and present and analyses shifts in feminist thinking from the 1970s to the 1990s.