Carceral Feminism
“Carceral Feminism describes an approach that sees increased policing, prosecution, and imprisonment as the primary solution to violence against women. This stance does not acknowledge that police are often purveyors of violence and that prisons are always sites of violence. Carceral feminism ignores the ways in which race, class, gender identity, and immigration status leave certain women more vulnerable to violence and that greater criminalization often places these same women at risk of state violence.” – Victoria Law
“Carceral Feminism describes an approach that sees increased policing, prosecution, and imprisonment as the primary solution to violence against women. This stance does not acknowledge that police are often purveyors of violence and that prisons are always sites of violence. Carceral feminism ignores the ways in which race, class, gender identity, and immigration status leave certain women more vulnerable to violence and that greater criminalization often places these same women at risk of state violence.” – Victoria Law
Articles

A Reckoning Inside the Domestic-Violence Movement
By Zoë Carpenter Original article found here. Domestic abuse presents a deadly threat to millions of people across America. But as concerns about police misconduct

Who Keeps Us Safe?
By Maia Hibbett Original article found here. A NEW YORK CITY MARCH descended upon a jail in mid-June, with protesters pumping fists and waving signs at

Anti-Carceral Feminism
By Emily L. Thuma Original article found here. Lydia Pelot-Hobbs The “Free Joan Little” campaign became a coalitional space for Black liberation, feminist and prisoner

How Police Became the Go-to Response to Domestic Violence
By Aya Gruber Original article found here. In response to widespread demands to “defund the police,” a specific question repeatedly crops up: “What about domestic

WHAT FOLLOWS PUNISHMENT?
Original article found here. What Follows Punishment? Aviva Stahl When people convicted of sex offenses in the United States finish their criminal sentences, they generally

How Feminists Resisted Prisons and Policing in the 1970s
Original article found here. How Feminists Resisted Prisons and Policing in the 1970s Emily L. Thuma Emily L. Thuma is an assistant professor of American

Locking people up won’t help combat sexual violence
Original article found here. Locking people up won’t help combat sexual violence We need look beyond individual punishment to tackle a crisis which pervades the

The political whiteness of #MeToo
Original article found here. The political whiteness of #MeToo We need to confront how the movement is shaped by the power of whiteness, write Alison

How Anti-violence Activism Taught Me to Become a Prison Abolitionist
By Beth E. Richie Original article found here Sometimes we learn our most profound political lessons in the contours of our everyday activism. This is

Heteropatriarchy Kills: Challenging Gender Violence in a Prison Nation
By Angela P. Harris Original article found here

Disrupting the Relationship between the Anti-Violence Movement and the PIC
By Chez Rumpf | Chicago PIC Teaching Collective Original article found here Two weeks ago, more than 1200 people attended the National Sexual Assault Conference (NSAC) in

Against Innocence: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Safety
By Jackie Wang Original article found here
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Media
Re-Imagining Our Legacy: Transforming from Criminalization to Liberation
In this time of emergence, we are called to reflect on the status quo (“the way we’ve always done things”), to reimagine new possibilities that increase thriving, and shed that which no longer serves us. This webinar series will offer an opportunity to reflect on the movement to end gender-based violence’s reliance on the criminal legal system and contemplate the consequences of choosing policing, prosecution, and imprisonment as primary solutions to ending violence. We will discuss the impact of incarceration, discuss concepts of punishment and accountability (and how they differ), and learn about new, liberatory ways to practice accountability and repair that do not require punishment and incarceration.
We hope you will join us as we ponder these big questions and reimagine what is possible so that we can set our trajectory for a future in which we all get to flourish and be whole.
Each session is two-hours long, from 1pm to 3pm EST.
This webinar was recorded on 10/6/2020. The recording has been paused at points where music was playing. Please contact training@vsdvalliance.org for handouts, slides, and more information.
Arrested Justice: Black Feminist Reflections on Carceral Feminism and Prison Abolition
By | IRAAS Annual Zora Neale Hurston Lecture 2016
Beth Richie is engaged in several research projects designed to explore the relationship between violence against women in low-income African American communities and violence. The specific focus of one study is girls who are both violent and perpetrators of violence. Another project is looking at the factors that influence recidivism and re-arrest rates for women and young people being released from a large urban jail. A third project is concerned with the public policy and social factors that lead to the rise in incarceration rates of women and conditions of confinement once they are sentenced. Currently Dr. Richie is leading a multi-million dollar research sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation researching women and youth issues at Rikers Island Correctional Facility. She was the recipient of three major awards: the National Advocacy Award by the Department of Health and Health and Human Services, Office of Violence Prevention; the Audre Lorde Legacy Award of the Union Institute stemming from her work with the National Network for Women in Prison; and the Visionary Award Of the Violence Intervention Project. Tags:abolition, carceral feminisms, Beth Richie
Resisting Gender Violence Without Cops or Prisons
By | Victoria Law
Tags: community based solutions, sexual ciolence, communities of color, victoria law
More Laws = More Violence: Criminalization as a Failed Strategy for Anti-Violence Movements
By | Barnard Center for Research on Women
Tags:carceral feminisms, Andrea Ritchie
Survived and Punished
By | Ny Nourn | TEDxPeacePlaza
Tags:carceral feminisms, Ny Nourn
Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues: Lessons from Anti-Violence Movements
By | Dean Spade
Tags:Caradministrative violence, anti-capitalism, anti-violence, Barnard Center for Research on Women, bathrooms, Born in Flames, CeCe McDonald, Craig Willse, criminalization, Critical Race Theory, disability justice, hate crime laws, healthcare, Hope, immigration, intersectionality, interviews, law school, legal reform, marriage, Medicaid, medical industrial complex, military/war, mutual aid, neoliberalism, nonprofit industrial complex, nonprofits,Normal Life, Palestine, pinkwashing, police, poverty, prison abolition, public benefits, queer, racism, Reina Gossett, relationships, reviews, state violence, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, trans, wealth redistribution
Survival and Resistance: Women Organizing towards Abolition
By | Rustbelt Abolition Radio
Tags: carceral feminisms, Mariame Kaba
Transformative justice in an era of mass criminalization
By | Mariame Kaba and Victoria Law
Tags: carceral feminisms, Mariame Kaba
All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence
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Curriculum
New S&P Curriculum Unit for Domestic Violence Awareness Month
By | Survived and Punished (S & P)
Criminalizing Survival: A Resource of Curricula and Activities
By | Survived and Punished (S & P)

Anti Violence and Prison Industrial Complex Timeline
Anti Violence and Prison Industrial Complex Timeline
Workshop by | CARA / Communities Against Rape & Abuse
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Other Resources | Links
Shifting from Carceral to Transformative Justice Feminisms
By | CarceralFeminism.wordpress.com
Tags: carceral feminisms, reading list
Responding to Violence, Restoring Justice
By | Barnard Center for Research on Women
Tags: carceral feminisms, reading list
CONVERGE! Reimagining the Movement to End Gender Violence
By | University of Miami Race and Social Justice Law Review Website
Tags: carceral feminisms, community accountability, anti-violence
Toward a Radical Imagination of Law
By | Amna Akbar
Tags: legal scholarship, movement for black lives, policy, settler colonialism, slave codes, building power
No Selves to Defend
By | Mariame Kaba
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