Subject: pedophilia studies
From: Marty Schwartz (schwartz@ohio.edu)
Date: Sat Jan 08 2000 - 15:09:31 CST
Further to what Jennifer says (and she is 100% correct), there has been a
disjunction in the categorization into little boxes of studies of sexual
aggression and critical criminology. I am a fair example. I have a body
of work labeled "critical criminology," which consists of such things as
articles on left realism. When I am evaluated as a critical criminologist
(such as a recent article in the Journal of Criminal Justice Education,
where the question was examined of how many times my work has been cited)
what is ignored is another piece of my life -- four or five books and more
than 40 journal articles and book chapters on violence against women
(including a couple of critical pieces on incest). It is not likely that I
run a schizophrenic existence -- critical for some articles, not for
others. It is the same me.
From my point of view, feminist work on pedophilia should automatically be
considered critical scholarship unless your analysis shows
otherwise. While there is less of this work than I would like, there is a
lot of it. People who do Marxist analyses of state legitimacy don't tend
to do this work, to be sure, but then again pedophilia scholars tend to do
lousy work on state legitimacy.
Marty Schwartz
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