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Review: Confronting the `Malestream': The Contribution of Feminist Criminologies

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Published date01 June 2007
AuthorFinola Farrant
DOI10.1177/02645505070540020603
Date01 June 2007
Subject MatterArticles
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looked after by social services. This highlights the competing tensions between
justice and welfare approaches and poses some thought-provoking questions
regarding the realities of practice in this area.
In spite of the shortcoming of this type of book, which by its nature can only
touch on the knowledge required, it does provide a comprehensive introduction
which would motivate the enthusiastic student to explore more detailed writing on
the related subjects. Having graduated myself three years ago and having decided
to enter the social work profession to work with vulnerable young people, I would
have been very pleased to have had this book. Its accessibility, however, is also
its downfall and more detailed discussion and guidance, particularly on assess-
ment frameworks and the impact of adversities on young people, would have
enhanced the longer term value of this book.
Richard Martin
Social Worker
Derbyshire County Council
Confronting the ‘Malestream’:
The Contribution of Feminist
Criminologies
Alisa Stevens
Issues in Community and Criminal Justice,
Napo, 2006; pp 92, £10.00, pbk
ISBN 10: 0–901617–22–9;
ISBN 13: 978–0–901617–22–4
This, the seventh monograph in the ICCJ series, manages
an intriguing feat. It is simultaneously both an interesting
and frustrating read. It is interesting because of the focus upon the relationship
between feminism and the criminological discipline. This relationship, as Stevens
notes, has been a somewhat rocky affair. An uneasy alliance between the theor-
etical and political aims of feminism and the traditional and masculinist concerns
of criminology, has led to claims that this relationship is incompatible, undesirable
and one-sided. That feminism has done most of the ‘giving’ to criminology is an
issue explored throughout this well-written monograph.
The body of the narrative covers a range of issues that provide a useful overview
of feminist theory in relation to first and second wave feminism; and on the impact
feminist...

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