... and criminological and justice theories. Feminist criminology is made up of many different theories; there is no one feminist criminology and it is believed by many that the term "feminist criminology" should be abandoned. To find out what effect feminist criminology on domestic violence has made, it is important to look at various feminist theories that have been developed around this area of crime. As stated before, there is no one feminist criminology; therefore each theory may have had a different contribution to how the problem of crime is now understood. Radical feminist criminology has described male violence against women as a 'unitary phenomenon' (Edwards, 1987)2. Radical feminists have described violence by men towards women as the "basis of men's control over women"3. To understand domestic violence as a problem of crime, the construction of masculinity must be examined in a sexist society. From this, it is believed that this society ...

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