Carceral Feminism
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
Articles

Reimagining the Movement to End Gender Violence: Anti-racism, Prison Abolition, Women of Color Feminisms, and Other Radical Visions of Justice
By Beth E. Richie Original article found here

Will Feminism’s Past Mistakes Haunt #MeToo?
By Judith Levine Original article found here | Photography by Seth Page Women’s fight for the right to work free of sexual insult or molestation has

Let Us Survive: Demanding the Decriminalization of Sex Work
By Red S. Original article found here The following has been excerpted in part from a talk given by Red S. for the DSA NYC’s

Ending Mass Incarceration Webinar Series by National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women
By National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women Original article found here Visit Below for Full Articles

From carceral feminism to transformative justice: Women-of-color feminism and alternatives to incarceration
By Mimi Kim Original article found here

Against Carceral Feminism
By Victoria Law Original article found here Cherie Williams, a thirty-five-year-old African-American woman in the Bronx, just wanted to protect herself from her abusive boyfriend. So
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Media
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
Anti Violence and Prison Industrial Complex Timeline
Workshop by | CARA / Communities Against Rape & Abuse
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Other Resources | Links
Responding to Violence, Restoring Justice
By | Barnard Center for Research on Women
Tags: carceral feminisms, reading list
Toward a Radical Imagination of Law
By | Amna Akbar
Tags: legal scholarship, movement for black lives, policy, settler colonialism, slave codes, building power
Captive Genders
By | Eric Stanley & Nat Smith intro by Dean Spade
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