An International Research Conference on Women, Law, and Social Control; July 1991, Montreal, Canada

直到最近，关于社会组织和犯罪的社会背景中的性别差异以及社会控制、刑罚实践和司法中的性别和性别偏见问题的研究还很少。这一领域的学术研究正在迅速发展，许多人认为这是当代犯罪学研究中最重要的进步之一。该研究的理论和政策贡献具有全球意义。然而，在这一领域工作的研究人员仍然是孤立的，很少有国际交流或协调。该奖项是为来自不同国家的学者召开国际科学会议，讨论犯罪、法律和社会控制中的性别问题而设立的。与会者将严格审查理论、方法和经验数据，努力理清性别假设和偏见、性别差异，以及妇女在不同法律和社会控制体系中的作用。此外，同样重要的是，本次会议旨在探讨以国际、非种族中心的方式引入性别观点对未来犯罪学研究和理论的影响。来自18个国家的大约30名与会者将出席定于1991年7月在加拿大蒙特利尔举行的会议。将编印一册经过编辑的论文，连同有关的会议讨论摘要。这次会议将提供一个独特的机会，汇集从国际角度对犯罪学领域性别概念的发现和解释。本次会议的成果将对科学研究的发展产生重大影响，拓宽该领域研究社会控制、越轨行为和犯罪的概念基础。

Until relatively recently, there has been little research on gender differences in the social organization and social contexts of crime and on issues of gender and gender bias in social control, penal practice, and the administration of justice. Scholarship in this area is growing rapidly and is recognized by many as making some of the most significant advances in contemporary criminological research. The theoretical and policy contributions of the research are of global importance. However, researchers working in this area remain isolated and there has been little international communication or coordination. This award is for an international scientific conference of scholars from different countries to discuss gender issues in crime, law, and social control. The conference participants will critically examine theory, methods, and empirical data in an effort to disentangle gender assumptions and biases, gender differences, and what is known about the role of women in different systems of law and social control. Further, and equally as important, the conference seeks to examine the implications for future research and theory in criminology of bringing gender perspectives to bear and doing so in an international, non-ethnocentric way. Approximately thirty participants from 18 countries will attend the conference to be held in Montreal, Canada in July 1991. An edited volume of papers, together with relevant summaries of conference discussions, will be produced. This conference will provide a unique opportunity to pool findings and interpretations, from an international perspective, on concepts of gender in the field of criminology. The products of this conference should have a major effect on the development of scientific research by broadening the conceptual base of what and how the field studies social control, deviance, and crime.