Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence

Chris Rasche, Ray Paternoster
1996 Correspondence, ASC annual meeting activities   unpublished
It has been about 25 years since scholarly concerns about the absence of research on women and crime-and possible bias in the substance of criminology-began to really surface in the literature in the early 1970s. It was also in the mid-1970s that growing numbers of women scholars, researchers and educators began to gather at American Society of Criminology meetings. Informal conversations among these women ultimately led to the formation of the ASC Women's Caucus, which eventually became the
more » ... ision on Women and Crime in 1984. This panel is devoted to an assessment of the effects of almost a quarter century of active participation by women in a discipline widely regarded as having been "male-dominated" in almost every respect. Has
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