Feminist Criminology in the Trump Era: A Call for Activist Research

• In Event: Understanding Women's Offending and Victimization: Feminist Criminology and Advocacy

Abstract

This presentation reviews the key importance of feminist criminology in what might be described as the Trump era. First and foremost, the field must stay true it’s roots which not only focuses on the centrality of gender as a key aspect of critical research but also foregrounds the need to engage in research that makes the social world more equitable. In this political time, this means a refocus on the assault on many aspects of women’s reproductive rights. It also means that we must conduct new research on the implications of involving the criminal justice system in other forms of inequality, particularly racial inequality. Issues like the criminalization of migration, and the explicit embrace of mass incarceration must be exposed as socially and politically toxic.

Author

• Meda Chesney-Lind, University of Hawaii at Manoa