ABSTRACT
This chapter takes stock of key developments in feminist criminologies over the last fifty to sixty years. It provides a summary of distinctive approaches undertaken by feminist researchers on topics related to crime, justice and criminology. The chapter examines a body of transgressive feminist scholarship influenced by French feminism that called for the outright rejection of criminology as a masculinist knowledge. A third body of feminist scholarship took inspiration from post-modernism and post-colonialism criticising feminist criminology's universalisation of women. Key conceptual shifts in feminist criminology have tended to mirror the shifts in feminist theory more broadly, from liberal, socialist, post-colonial and postmodern feminist thought. From the 1990s feminist scholars called for transgressive knowledge about women, gender and crime to be generated from outside what they saw as the hopelessly phallocentric discipline of criminology. In 2013, Henne and Troshynski point to the problematic nature of simply deploying intersectionality in a domestic politic, of emptying it of its post-colonial and geo-political importance.
