After reviewing the early feminist critiques of the discipline and the empirical emphases of the 1970's and early 1980's, we appraise current issues and debates in three areas: building theories of gender and crime, controlling men's violence toward women, and gender equality in the criminal justice system. We invite our colleagues to reflect on the androcentrism of the discipline and to appreciate the promise of feminist inquiry for rethinking problems of crime and justice. (Publisher abstract)