Evaluation

• Feminists criticise based on it being ‘gender blind’ and focusing on male criminality at the expense of female criminality
• Romanticises wc criminals as ‘robin hoods’
• Taylor et al: ignores effects on the working class victims
• Hopkins Burke 2005: too generalistic to explain crime and too idealistic to be useful in tackling crime
• Hall et al 1978: used critical criminology to explain the moral panic over muggings
• Walton 1998 and Young 1998: combatted the ‘correctionalist bias’ and called for greater tolerance of diversity in behaviour 
• Correctionalist Bias: the assumption that sociology’s role is simply to find ways of correcting deviant behaviour