Race, Gender, and Class in Criminology: The Intersection. Schwartz, Martin D., Milovanovic, Dragan, Bosworth, Mary. Race, Gender & Class. New Orleans: 1998. Vol. 5, Iss. 2, p. 167.
The current article is a perfect source of information about race, gender and class in criminology. The article touches upon the issues of traditional schools of critical criminology, depicts the role of the three phenomena – race, gender and class – in its demystifying and analysis (167).
The authors also ponder on the topic of various oppressions based on each of the phenomena and try to offer certain ways of overcoming these oppressions and centralizing the marginal social, racial and gender groups. The intended audience of this article is the people who study criminology as students, and the scholars who are concerned with it as professionals. Thus, the relevance of the article to my topic is evident, because the article considers the most important aspects of criminology: “The subject matter of this anthology — race, gender, and class — is a critical one for criminology” (167).
The article, moreover, possesses such helpful features as precise presentation of information, strong theoretical basis and support by specific examples from criminology. The conclusions made by the authors of the article are adequate to its plot and continue to examine the most important aspects in modern criminology. Furthermore, the authors conclude by the necessity to define precisely the terms of race, gender and class for the use of criminology. I am strongly convinced that the current article is a helpful source of information about race, gender and class in criminology which is my topic. I highly evaluate the manner of data presentation and theoretical basis of this work and see it as one of the main sources in this topic.