The first essay introduces the impact of the Women's Movement on criminal justice through the debates surrounding the criminalization of pornography in Canada. A group of publications focuses on the controversy about a female concept of law. Each of the four contributors directly or indirectly addresses the question of whether women offenders should be judged according to a female criminal code (separate from males) or whether they should strive for recognition of their rights and concerns within a single, common criminal code. The contributors agree that, despite the disagreements and difficult choices facing feminists, feminism has provided and will provide significant impulses to the study of criminology. A bibliographical survey of feminist publications and their effects on the criminal justice field concludes the issue.