Abstract
Intersectionality, coined by Crenshaw (1989), is a framework utilized across a broad range of social sciences to explore how individuals within multiple systems of oppression have unique experiences and responses to those experiences. Within the study of crime, intersectionality has primarily been utilized by feminist criminologists to identify how and why women with different social statuses or from different racial or ethnic backgrounds have different levels of criminal involvement and experiences with victimization. This article briefly reviews the state of research utilizing intersectionality frameworks to examine crime and victimization.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition |
| Publisher | Elsevier Inc. |
| Pages | 663-669 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780080970875 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780080970868 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 26 2015 |
Scopus Subject Areas
- General Social Sciences
Keywords
- Class
- Classifications of intersectionality
- Criminal offending
- Doing identity
- Feminist criminology
- Gender
- Intersectionality
- Methods
- Oppressions
- Race
- Victimization
