August 2023
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February 2023
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Champ pénal
March 2022
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Journal of Interdisciplinary History
August 2021
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Critical criminology is a theoretical perspective within criminology that urges the field to attend to structural inequalities such as class, race, and gender when considering both the nature of crime and the functioning of the criminal justice system. The explicit linkages between feminist criminology and critical criminology, especially the importance of “making the world more equitable,” make many of the insights of feminist methodology of relevance to the question of critical criminological methods. Those developing the classic sociological and criminological paradigms were deeply affected by the grinding poverty they observed in the urban slums of northern cities like Chicago. The founders of criminology almost completely overlooked women's crime, and they ignored, minimized, and trivialized female victimization. Critical criminologists, like our counterparts in the other sciences, need to be particularly mindful of the ways in which academic culture shapes the questions we ask in ways that tend to support inequality and the status quo.
May 2020
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Criminology
In this address I make the case for continuing to focus criminological research on gender, sexism, and racism within our lives and within our profession. I also provide a brief case study of a topic many would feel falls well outside our field: reproductive rights. Data are reviewed to reveal the impact of gender on the lives of women—notably the devaluation of work done by women, particularly if the work is deemed feminist. Afterward, recent data on the persistence of both sexism and racism in our field are reviewed. Despite gains made by women (notably in the membership of the field), the highest positions in our professional association are held by men, particularly by White men. Data on the importance of reproductive rights to women are then considered, notably the fact that nearly one third of women will need abortion services by the time they reach middle age. Finally, I review recent efforts by conservatives to recriminalize abortion, specifically through the passage of laws making abortion difficult to arrange, or even outlawing the provision of abortion services. These efforts directly involve the criminal justice system in the criminalization of women's bodies.
March 2019
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April 2018
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Affilia
January 2018
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January 2018
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In the 1990s, honor-based violence (HBV), and in particular honor killings, began receiving extensive international media attention. However, HBV includes a broad continuum of mechanisms used to control women and girls with varying levels of severity. Attention directed toward HBV has portrayed communities from South Asia, the Middle East and Northern Africa in culturally rigid ways, where Orientalist discourses fail to demonstrate diversity. This essay will draw on small group interviews conducted with 27 adolescent girls and young women from diverse Asian backgrounds living in Auckland, New Zealand. Findings will illustrate the varied ways that research participants and their families negotiate gender and gender violence, with some adhering to a range of cultural norms supporting HBV and others diverging from an HBV culture.
October 2017
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Theory in Action
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... Besides making the program available to adjacent counties, Hester also attributed this shift in racial and ethnic demographics to the increased presence of resource officers in schools after the pandemic (personal communication, July 2023). Notably, most Black girls in the arbitration program have a charge of assault and battery (i.e., fighting in school), which confirms existing research that suggests Black girls are disproportionately criminalized for their assertiveness and labeled as violent and aggressive (Chesney-Lind & Pasko, 2018;Stevens Andersen et al., 2018). I chose the media-making workshop theme Healing Scars and Bruises because I wanted to open up a conversation about the actual and metaphorical (i.e., physical, psychological, and cultural) wounds and obstacles in participants' lives. ...
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January 2018
... Feminist criminologists have brought attention to the intersectionality of experiences of marginalized girls in school punishment practices and in the juvenile justice system (Addington 2019;Chesney-Lind 1999;Crenshaw et al. 2015;Flores 2016;Hines-Datiri and Carter Andrews 2017;Morris 2016). Morris (2016) found that educators may be prompted to respond more punitively to Black girls who do not conform to traditional gender roles. ...
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July 1999
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
... White counterparts (see for example Brennan et al., 2015;Brennan & Vandenberg, 2009;Huckerby, 2003), but researchers have not considered whether or how the predominant visual elements of a story (i.e., the photograph, caption, or headline) may differ by a woman/girl perpetrator's race/ethnicity. ...
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January 2015
... One reason to interrogate the discipline itself is to reveal the extent to which forces like sexism and racism and their multiplicative effects and the devaluation of feminist work shape scholars' careers. Chesney-Lind (2020) shared Lee Bowker's experience; she described Lee as a very productive criminologist publishing much in the areas of penology and corrections who shifted to work on wife abuse. ...
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Feminist Theory
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May 2020
Criminology
... Histories and ongoing processes of settler colonialism continue to shape the experiences of Pacific Islander communities (Wright & Balutski, 2013). These communities also face drastic inequities and are racialized as inferior in localized contexts (Mayeda et al., 2006). ...
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January 2006
... This is not a new problem. The social control of women's sexuality and reproduction has a very long history and is a major feature of patriarchal societies like the U.S. (Chesney-Lind, 2019;Renzetti, Curran, & Maier, 2012). ...
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March 2019
... Instead, we showcase the complexity that characterizes migratory experiences and examine more insidious forms of violence defined as coercive control, which are common in intimate relationships regardless of ethnicity and religion. In fact, many Asian migrant youth have described their own family situations in which these honor-shame systems were not enforced (Mayeda, Vijaykumar, & Chesney-Lind, 2018), illustrating that within Asian communities, extensive diversity exists. Thus, we reject culture as the sole explanation of IPV and instead contend that dismantling patriarchy and violence against women requires deep cultural knowledge and context-specific sensitivity. ...
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January 2018
... Since CEDAW's creation and positioning, gender discrimination has been the most frequently cited purpose related to the denial of abortion. The prohibition and criminalisation would be deeply rooted in a cross-cutting patriarchal culture in the international human rights realm (Meda & Hadi, 2017;Sifris, 2014). From this point of view, restrictions on abortion would be a consequence of a male-centric organisation of social institutions imposing the policing of women's bodies. ...
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January 2017
Women & Criminal Justice
... The ability to decide to have an abortion, to use contraceptives, or other choices related to reproduction are exercises of legal agency-an element of legal capacitybecause they are decisions that have legal implications. The overregulation of women's bodies, in particular, has led to reproductive choices having significant legal implications for women (Kelly and Hoerl 2015;Chesney-Lind 2017;Simmonds 2019). However, even if women's bodies were not overregulated, choices regarding reproduction will likely always be exercises of legal agency because they virtually always involve some form of interaction with another individual, which almost always leaves open the potential for legal implications for the regulation of that relationship. ...
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January 2017
Women & Criminal Justice
... Politically, when any case of deadly police violence garners national attention, it generates considerable controversy (Chagnon, Chesney-Lind & Johnson, 2018) and the potential for a wide range of repercussions for police and society. This is true even in cases where the killing is ultimately found to have been justified. ...
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November 2016
Crime Media Culture An International Journal
