Gender-based violence, law reform, and the criminalization of survivors of violence
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Authors
Goodmark, Leigh
Issue Date
2021-12-01
Type
Article
Language
en_US
Keywords
Intimate Partner Violence , Criminal Legal System , Criminalized Survivors , Abolition , Abolition Feminism
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Abstract
Criminalization is the primary societal response to intimate partner violence in the US. This reliance on criminal legal system interventions ignores several unintended consequences. One of the serious unintended consequences of criminalization — perhaps the most serious unintended consequence — has been the increased rates of arrest, prosecution, conviction, and incarceration of those whom criminalization was meant to protect: victims of intimate partner violence. Criminalized survivors follow a variety of pathways into the carceral system, which fails to recognize their status as victims of violence and punishes them for failure to conform to victim stereotypes as well as for their acts.
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Citation
Goodmark, L. (2021) “Gender-Based Violence, Law Reform, and the Criminalization of Survivors of Violence”, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 10(4), pp. 13-25. doi: 10.5204/ijcjsd.1994.
Publisher
Justice and Social Democracy