Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism Volume 8 Goodmark Leigh
Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism Volume 8 Goodmark Leigh A profound, compelling argument for abolition feminism--to protect criminalized survivors of…
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Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism Volume 8 Goodmark Leigh
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. 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. 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.
Abolition feminism reveals the possibility of a just