Feminist Criminology

Feminist Futures ? Imagining a ‘european’ Feminist Criminology

Michele Burman, from the University of Glasgow, made a contribution to the 2012 Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, in the category “Crime and Society,” under the title “Feminist Futures ? Imagining a ‘european’ Feminist Criminology”. Here is the abstract: The recent formation of the ESC Gender, Crime and Justice Working Group gives pause to consider whether there is potential for the development of a distinctive yet ‘truly European’ feminist criminology, and in particular whether feminist criminology can offer appropriate theoretical and conceptual frameworks to interrogate the linkages between diverse, yet inter-related, inequalities and crime as encountered across different European states. The paper engages with a series of questions about the relevance of feminist approaches: How feasible is the idea of a European feminist criminology? What opportunities exist for the advancement of feminist criminology in Europe? In the past, feminist criminologists have adapted and applied concepts and arguments and methodologies from outside criminology to research and analyse the gendered nature of crime and responses to it. How might developments from the broader feminist movement achieve relevance and assist in forging new criminological fusions and interchanges across the changing political and economic landscape of Europe? What is/ might be the influence of feminism on criminological research agendas, and criminal justice policy and practice in Europe? This paper offers an opportunity to reflect on what might lie ahead.[rtbs name=”criminology”]

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• “Feminist Futures ? Imagining a ‘european’ Feminist Criminology”, by Michele Burman (Proceedings)