Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism Volume 8

by Leigh Goodmark

Book Overview

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. But greater state intervention in cases of intimate partner violence, rape, sexual assault, and trafficking has led to the arrest, prosecution, conviction, and incarceration...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520391128
• ISBN13: 9780520391123
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"