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Feminist Methods and Sources in Criminology and Criminal Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2016

Adrian Howe
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Abstract

This article by Adrian Howe is based on a presentation given at the ‘Sources and Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice Conference’ in November 2015, jointly sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Education and the Socio-Legal Studies Association. She begins by querying whether there are indeed distinct feminist methods in the social sciences. She outlines the impact of what she calls the ‘methodical revolution’ on the criminology discipline, Foucault's contribution and Foucauldian methodologies deployed in criminological and criminal justice research.

Keywords

positivismfeminist methodsFoucaultproblematisationdiscourse analysisCarol SmartShakespeareverbatim theatre
Type
Sources and Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice Research
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , June 2016 , pp. 102 - 107
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2016. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 

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Footnotes

1 Maureen Cain's work on methodology was pivotal. See also her, ‘Towards Transgression: New Directions in Feminist Criminology’ (1990) 18 International Journal of the Sociology of Law 1Google Scholar.

2 O'Brien, R M, ‘Exploring the Intersexual Nature of Violent Crime’ (1988) 26 Criminology 154CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Ibid 160 (my emphasis).

4 Ibid 166–7.

5 Michel Foucault, ‘Prison Talk’ in C Gordon (ed) Power/Knowledge: Michel Foucault (Harvester Press, 1980).

6 David Matza, Delinquency and Drift (Wiley, 1964).

7 See Adrian Howe Punish and Critique: Towards a Feminist Analysis of Penality (Routledge, 1994).

8 See Adrian Howe Sex, Violence and Crime - Foucault and the Man’ Question (Routledge, 2008). See also Howe, , ‘Law out of Context (or: Who's Afraid of Sex and Violence in Legal Education) (2000a) 25 Alternative Law Journal, 274CrossRefGoogle Scholar and Howe, , ‘Postmodern Criminology and its Feminist Discontents’ (2000b) 33 Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 221CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

9 See further Adrian Howe, Sexed Crime in the News (Federation Pres,, 1998).

10 Quoted in Gandal, Keith, ‘Michel Foucault: Intellectual Works and Politics’ (1986) 67 Telos 127Google Scholar.

11 Foucault, ‘Two Lectures’ in Foucault, Society Must be Defended (Penguin, 2003) p 7.

12 Ibid 27–28.

13 Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction (Allen Lane, 1979) 11.

14 See Chapters two and three in Howe, Sex, Violence and Crime above n 8.

15 See eg the critique of masculinist criminology by Naffine, Ngaire, ‘Criminal Conversation’ (1995) VI Law and Critique 193CrossRefGoogle Scholar. See also Howe, , ‘Addressing Child Sexual Assault in Australian Aboriginal Communities—The Politics of White Voice’ (2009) 30 Australian Feminist Law Journal 41CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

16 See Caroline Ramazanoglu (ed) Up Against Foucault: Explorations of Some Tensions Between Foucault and Feminism (Routledge, 1993).

17 Carol Smart, Feminism and the Power of Law (Routledge, 1989) 88.

18 Smart, Carol, ‘Reflection’ (2012) 20 Feminist Legal Studies 161CrossRefGoogle Scholar at 162–16.Se Also Howe,

19 Smart, Carol ‘A History of Ambivalence and Conflict in the Discursive Construction of the ‘Child Victim’ of Sexual Abuse’ (1999) 8 Social & Legal Studies 391CrossRefGoogle Scholar at 392 and 407. See also Howe, , ‘Mastering Emotions or Still Losing Control?—Seeking Public Engagement with Sexual Infidelity Homicide’, (2013) 21 Feminist Legal Studies 141CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

20 Mitra, Charlotte, ‘Judicial Discourse on Father-Daughter Incest Appeal Cases’ (1987) 15 International Journal of the Sociology of Law 121Google Scholar; ‘Hilary Allen ‘Rendering them Harmless: The Professional Portrayal of Women Charged with Serious Violent Crimes’ in Pat Carlen and Anne Worrall (eds), Gender, Crime and Justice (Open University Press, 1987) 81. See also the research cited in chap 6 in Howe, Sex, Violence and Crime above n 8.

21 See eg Rosemary Hunter and Danielle Tyson, ‘The Implementation of Feminist Law Reforms: The Case of Post-Provocation Sentencing’ forthcoming.

22 ‘Othello on Trial—Engaging with the “Extra-Academic Outside World’, Queen Mary Human Rights Law Review forthcoming April 2016, ‘Dramatising Intimate Femicide—Petitions, Plays, Public Engagement (with a Shakespearean Gloss)’ (2014) 26 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 276CrossRefGoogle Scholar; ‘Mastering Emotions or Still Losing Control?—Seeking Public Engagement with Sexual Infidelity Homicide’ (2013) 21 Feminist Legal Studies 21 141CrossRefGoogle Scholar; ‘“Red Mist” Homicide—Sexual Infidelity and the English Law of Murder (Glossing Titus Andronicus)’ (2013) 3 Legal Studies 407Google Scholar; ‘Enduring Fictions of Possession—Sexual Infidelity and Homicidal Rage in Shakespeare and Late Modernity (glossing Othello)’ (2102) 21 Griffith Law Review 772Google Scholar; ‘A Right to Passions? Compassion's Sexed Asymmetry and a Minor Comedy of Errors’ (2012) 23 Law and Critique 83CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

23 I discuss Ingala Smith's work in Howe, ‘Fatal Love’ (2014) 2(1) Griffith Journal of Law and Human Dignity 4.

24 Radhika Sanghani, ‘Nearly half of British women killed by men die at the hands of partners’, The Telegraph, 12 February 2015.

25 Sylvia Walby et al, ‘Is Violent Crime Increasing or Decreasing? A New Methodology to Measure Repeat Attacks Making Visible the Significance of Gender and Domestic Relations’ British Journal of Criminology Advance Access published February 3, 2016. See also Walby, and Myhill, Andrew, ‘New Survey Methodologies in Researching Violence Against Women’ (2001) 41 British Journal of Criminology 502CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

26 Foucault, above n 11 at 7–8. See the extended discussion in Chapter 3 of Howe, Sex, Violence and Crime above n 8.