An indispensable guide to the feminist case for prison abolition

How does the criminal justice system affect women’s lives? Do prisons keep women safe? Should feminists rely on policing and the law to achieve women’s liberation?

The mainstream feminist movement has proposed "locking up the bad men," and called on prisons, the legal system, and the state to protect women from misogynist violenceThis carceral approach to feminism, activist and scholar Gwenola Ricordeau argues, does not make women safer: it harms women, including victims of violence, and in particular people of color, poor people, and LGBTQ people.

In this scintillating, comprehensive study, Ricordeau draws from two decades as an abolitionist activist and scholar of the penal justice system to describe how the criminal justice system hurts womenConsidering the position of survivors of violence, criminalized women, and women with criminalized relatives, Ricordeau charts a new path to emancipation without incarceration.

WWith a new foreword by Silvia Federici.
 
Translated from the French by Tom Roberge and Emma Ramadan.


Format Häftad Omfång 192 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Verso Books Utgivningsdatum 2023-08-08 ISBN 9781839762734