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- Publisher
- SAGE
- Copyright
- © The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology and Authors, 1989
- ISSN
- 0004-8658
- eISSN
- 1837-9273
- DOI
- 10.1177/000486588902200303
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Infanticide is an important and historically prevalent crime. It is also a “female”crime. The challenge for feminist criminological theory is to account for infanticidewithout falling into the trap of “essentialising” the offence and itsperpetrators.Two current broad feminist theoretical positions (the androgynous approach and thesocial control perspectives) are applied to infanticide. It is argued that theirexplanatory usefulness is limited since both in various ways distort the “true”dimensions of the crime. The inability of these current perspectives to account forinfanticide raises serious questions about their general applicability for feministcriminological theory.
Journal
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE
Published: Sep 1, 1989