Committee Chair

Crittenden, Courtney A.

Committee Member

Hancock, Katelyn P.; Policastro, Christina N.

Department

Dept. of Criminal Justice and Legal Assistant Studies

College

College of Arts and Sciences

Publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Place of Publication

Chattanooga (Tenn.)

Abstract

Criminology has often been criticized for its lack of gender inclusivity and ‘androcentrism,’ particularly by feminist and queer criminologists who note that the field rarely uses separate measures of gender and sex assigned at birth or ones that extend beyond the binary, severely limiting the applicability of evidence-based, gender-responsive services in the criminal justice system. Other fields have adopted measures of gender that capture multiple identities and acknowledge the complexity of gender. However, it is unclear whether criminology has heeded these calls for inclusivity. Using a gender theory perspective, the current study analyzed 566 articles published between 2011 and 2020 from four criminological and criminal justice (CCJ) journals to explore the published studies’ gender operationalizations. Findings indicate that quality gender measurements are lacking, gender and sex assigned at birth are often conflated, and author and publication type are significant with regards to the inclusion of quality gender measurements.

Degree

M. S.; A thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Science.

Date

12-2023

Subject

Criminology--Research--Methodology; Criminal justice, Administration of--Research--Methodology

Keyword

Gender; Research Methodology; Criminology; Gender Measurement; Feminist Criminology; Gender Inclusivity

Document Type

Masters theses

DCMI Type

Text

Extent

vi, 59 leaves

Language

English

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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