Feminist Criminology
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Feminist Criminology is an innovative journal that is dedicated to research related to women, girls, and crime within the context of a feminist critique of criminology. Published five times a year by SAGE Publications as the official journal of the Division on Women and Crime of the American Society of Criminology, this international publication focuses on research and theory that highlights the gendered nature of crime.
The feminist critique of criminology incorporates a perspective that the paths to crime differ for males and females. Therefore, research that uses sex as a control variable often fails to illuminate the factors that predict female criminality. Feminist Criminology provides a venue for articles that place women in the center of the research question, answering different questions than the mainstream approach of controlling for sex.
Feminist Criminology features research utilizing both quantitative and qualitative methodology and includes insightful topics such as
- Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Diversity in the Study of Women and Crime
- Cross-Cultural / International Perspectives on Women and Crime
- Women Working in the Criminal Justice Profession
- How Women Offenders Are Treated in the Criminal Justice System
- Girls and Women as Victims
- Feminist Theories of Crime
- Girls, Women and the Justice System
The main aim of Feminist Criminology is to focus on research related to women, girls and crime. The scope includes research on women working in the criminal justice profession, women as offenders and how they are dealt with in the criminal justice system, women as victims, and theories and tests of theories related to women and crime. The feminist critique of criminology incorporates a perspective that the paths to crime differ for males and females, thus research that uses sex as a control variable often fails to illuminate the factors that predict female criminality. This journal will highlight research that takes a perspective designed to demonstrate the gendered nature of crime and responses to crime. The main focus of the journal will be empirical research and theory, although the editor welcomes practice-oriented manuscripts.
| Lisa Pasko | University of Denver, USA |
| Vera Lopez | Arizona State University, USA |
| Jennifer Cobbina | Michigan State University, USA |
| Alesha Durfee | Saint Louis University, USA |
| Katherine Irwin | University of Hawaii-Manoa, USA |
| Lidia Nuño | Texas State University, USA |
| Jane Palmer | University of Southern Queensland, Australia |
| Hillary Potter | University of Colorado Boulder, USA |
| Nawal H. Ammar | Rowan University College of Humanities and Social Sciences, USA |
| Valerie Anderson | University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA |
| Elaine Arnull | Bucks New University/University of Wolverhampton, UK |
| Rosemary Barberet | John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA |
| Stephanie Bonnes | University of New Haven, USA |
| Lisa Broidy | University of New Mexico, USA |
| Meda Chesney-Lind | University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA |
| Molly Dragiewicz | Griffith University, Australia |
| Venessa Garcia | New Jersey City University, USA |
| Loraine Gelsthorpe | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Veronica Herrera | California State University-Fullerton, USA |
| Michelle Hughes Miller | University of South Florida, USA |
| Nancy Jurik | Arizona State University, USA |
| Karen Joe Laidler | The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China |
| Andrea Leverentz | University of Massachusetts Boston, USA |
| Kayla Martensen | University of New Mexico, USA |
| Cecilia Mejivar | University of California - Los Angeles, USA |
| James W. Messerschmidt | University of Southern Maine, USA |
| Merry Morash | Michigan State University, USA |
| Tara Opsal | Colorado State University, USA |
| Nicole E. Rader | Mississippi State University, USA |
| Valli Rajah | John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA |
| Sheetal Ranjan | Montclair State University, USA |
| Sukhman Singh | The University of Connecticut, USA |
| Jillian J. Turanovic | Florida State University, USA |
| María B. Velez | University of Maryland, USA |
| Sara Wakefield | Rutgers University, USA |
| Nancy Wonders | Northern Arizona University, USA |
| Christine Leavitt | Arizona State University, USA |
Manuscript submission guidelines can be accessed on Sage Journals.