Maureen Cain

Maureen Cain (born 1938) is a British criminologists and professor.

Received

She received her bachelor's degree from London School of Economics in 1959, and she attained her PhD from the London School of Economics in 1969. After graduating from LSE, Cain became a professor.

Career

Cain's three main teaching posts have been:

• A professor and reader at Brunel University (1968–1979).
• The Chair of Sociology at The University of the West Indies (1987–1995).
• A Reader at the Law School at University of Birmingham (1995–2005 approximately) – where she still continues to supervise graduate students.

She has taught courses in Sociology of Law and Crime and Sociology of Law.

She was president of the British Society of Criminology from 2003 to 2006.

Description of research interests

Cain's interests have been as broad as looking and studying the major works of Marx & Engels "Sociology of Law" to looking into "Society and the Policeman's Role". Cain's more current teaching and research interests have come from her years in Trinidad teaching at The University of the West Indies. While in Trinidad she studied Women, Crime and Social Harms. Cain's original interest and her PhD dissertation was "Society and the Policeman's Role", which is noted for being ahead of its time in feminist criminology. Cain then moved away from criminology to look at "The main themes of Marx's and Engels' sociology of law" then she returned to a look into policing when she wrote "Racism, the police, and community policing: a comment on the Scarman Report”. Cain then wrote “Orientalism, Occidentalism and the sociology of Crime” and today she is about to publish a new book called “Globality, Crime and Criminology” due to be available for sale 30 July 2010.

Contributions to feminist criminology

Maureen Cain's biggest contribution to feminist criminology was her first contribution, “Society and the Policeman’s Role”. This has been noted as being “Ahead of its feminist time”. "Society and the Policeman's Role" is just one example of her contribution to feminist criminology and because of this initial and prolific contribution Maureen Cain can be considered a pioneer in the field of feminist criminology. Cain also looks at women's issues in many of her articles of Transgressions in Criminology as she looks at the historical treatment of men vs women and she brings up many political questions as to the level of rights surrounding feminism.

Bibliography of work

• Cain, M. (1973). Society and the Policeman's Role. London: Routledge and Keegan.
• Cain, M. & Hunt, A. (1979). Marx and Engels on Law. London, England: Academic Press.
• Cain, M. (1983). The International State. London: Academic Press.
• Cain, M. (1989). Growing up Good: Policing the behaviour of girls in Europe. London, England: Sage Publications.
• Cain, M. (1990). Towards Transgression: New Directions in Feminist Criminology. International Journal of Sociology of Laws, 252–273.
• Cain, M. (1993). Lawyers Works: Translation and Transgressions. London, England: Open University Press.
• Cain, M. (2000). Orientalism, Occidentialism and the Sociology of Crime. British Journal of Sociology, 239–260.
• Cain, M., & Wahidin, A. (July 2006). Ageing, Crime and Society. Devon, UK: Willian Publishing.
• Cain, M., & Howe, A. (November 2008). Women, Crime and Social Harm: Towards a Criminology for the Global Age. Oxford, England: Oxford Publishing.
• Cain, M. (31 July 2010). Globality, Crime and Criminology. London, England: Sage Publishing.