ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the ways in which race, class and gender have been included within radical and critical criminology. We begin with the idea that the class-based perspective central to radical criminology has given way to a broader perspective (critical criminology) that makes a greater attempt to include race and gender issues along side class concerns. We attempt to build upon this transformation in criminological thought by: (1) linking race, class, and critical criminology to life course or life history research; (2) connecting race, class and gender to the types of choices that are structured into people's lives; (3) demonstrating life course and structured choice effects by reviewing data on income, wealth, and power disparities that arise from race, gender and class inequality; and (4) finally, by examinating how race, class and gender intersect to affect the production of crime. Let us begin this journey with a brief history of radical/critical criminology.
