Imperfect Victims

Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism Volume 8
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-520-39112-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 296 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 428 g

Reihe: Gender and Justice

A profound, compelling argument for abolition feminism—to protect criminalized survivors of gender-based violence, we must dismantle the carceral system.
 
Since the 1970s, anti-violence advocates have worked to make the legal system more responsive to gender-based violence. But greater state intervention in cases of intimate partner violence, rape, sexual assault, and trafficking has led to the arrest, prosecution, conviction, and incarceration of victims, particularly women of color and trans and gender-nonconforming people. Imperfect Victims argues that only dismantling the system will bring that punishment to an end. 
 
Amplifying the voices of survivors, including her own clients, abolitionist law professor Leigh Goodmark deftly guides readers on a step-by-step journey through the criminalization of survival. Abolition feminism reveals the possibility of a just world beyond the carceral state, which is fundamentally unable to respond to, let alone remedy, harm. As Imperfect Victims shows, abolition feminism is the only politics and practice that can undo the indescribable damage inflicted on survivors by the very system purporting to protect them.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goodmark, Leigh

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

1. The Criminalization of Survival
2. Youth
3. Arrest and Prosecution
4. Punishment and Sentencing
5. Reconsideration and Clemency
6. Abolition Feminism

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Leigh Goodmark is Marjorie Cook Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law and the author of Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence and A Troubled Marriage: Domestic Violence and the Legal System.