The Pregnancy Police

Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-520-39107-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 296 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 230 mm x 153 mm, Gewicht: 410 g

Reihe: Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century

Decades before the overturning of Roe v. Wade, pregnant people faced arrest and prosecution for supposed crimes against the fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses they gestated. The Pregnancy Police investigates the legal arguments undergirding these prosecutions and sheds much-needed light on the networks of health-care providers, social workers, and legal personnel participating in this ongoing surveillance and punishment of pregnant people.

Drawing on detailed analyses of legislation, statements from prosecutors and law enforcement, and records from over a thousand arrest cases, Grace E. Howard traces the long history of state attempts to regulate and control people who have the capacity for pregnancy—from the early twentieth century's white supremacist eugenics to the end of Roe and the ever-increasing criminalization of abortion across the United States.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Howard, Grace E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Abtreibung, Geburtenkontrolle: Soziale & Ethische Themen
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Peril of Protection

2. Angels and Antimothers

3. Bad Breeders

4. “The Dead Babies May Be the Lucky Ones”

5. “I Felt Like Nobody”

6. Wielding the Velvet Hammer

7. Conclusion

Appendix 1: Methodology

Appendix 2: Court Cases

Notes

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Grace Howard is Associate Professor of Justice Studies at San José State University.