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This 10 page paper traces the impact the feminist movement has had on understanding why crimes are committed, who is the criminal, and who is the victim. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
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While the contention has only recently been explored, gender is an important element in crime as well. As Davies (2008) observes "the salience of gender in understanding all
matters connected to crime, offending, social harm, criminal victimization and justice has been established over the last 30 years" (207). The feminist movement has been an important element in
that establishment. This is not surprising given that feminism has impacted practically every other facet of American life. The field of Criminology is no exception to this rule.
Feminist criminology has advanced several key theories in criminology. Two of the more interesting are liberal feminist theory and radical feminist theory. As will be seen below,
however, these two theories actually blend and intermingle with several others. The criminology theory which emerged with the feminist movement actually diverged
into a number of different branches such as liberal, radical, Marxist, socialist, and postmodernist feminism. The different branches of feminism can be separated by slight difference in their general
approaches to solving societal inequalities: 1. Liberal feminism is characterized by operating with existing
social structures to accomplish its goal or illuminating womens problems, improving opportunities, and overall transforming their role in society (Feminist Criminology, 2006). 2.
Radical feminism concentrates on an examination of the societal mechanisms which resulted in women occupying subservient roles in the first place (Feminist Criminology, 2006).
3. Marxist feminism takes economics into consideration when examining the various inequalities of a patriarchal societal (Feminist Criminology, 2006). 4.
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