“Mostly male and American”: The reporting of women and crime scholarship in introductory criminology textbooks

Female scholars often criticize the field of criminology for being male‐dominated. We study this claim by examining if the dissemination of published research findings in criminology is affected by gender. A study of prominent women and crime scholars shows that recent criminology textbooks, when compared to women and crime publications, are more likely to cite and to discuss male researchers than females. Because textbook authors also largely ignore the contributions of women and crime scholars who reside outside the United States, we argue that the reporting of women and crime scholarship in the books is “mostly male and American.”

Keywords:

• Female scholars
• feminist critique
• social construction
• criminologists

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