Title The feminist war on crime the unexpected role of women's liberation in mass incarceration Aya Gruber

Published Oakland, California University of California Press [2020] ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 288 pages) Contents The opening battle : fighting patriarchy with purity -- The enemy : from "the man" to bad men -- The battle plan : arrest is best -- The weapon : ideal victims -- The new front : date rape -- From the sexual cold war to the new sex panic -- Endless war? Summary "Many feminists grapple with the problem of hyper-incarceration in the United States, and yet commentators on gender crime continue to assert that criminal law is not tough enough. This punitive impulse, prominent legal scholar Aya Gruber argues, is dangerous and counterproductive. In their quest to secure women's protection from domestic violence and rape, American feminists have become soldiers in the war on crime by emphasizing white female victimhood, expanding the power of police and prosecutors, touting the problem-solving power of incarceration, and diverting resources toward law enforcement and away from marginalized communities. Deploying vivid cases and unflinching analysis, The Feminist War on Crime documents the failure of the state to combat sexual and domestic violence through law and punishment. Zero-tolerance anti-violence law and policy tend to make women less safe and more fragile. Mandatory arrests, no-drop prosecutions, forced separation, and incarceration embroil poor women of color in a criminal justice system that is historically hostile to them. This carceral approach exacerbates social inequalities by diverting more power and resources toward a fundamentally flawed criminal justice system, further harming victims, perpetrators, and communities alike. In order to reverse this troubling course, Gruber contends that we must abandon the conventional feminist wisdom, fight violence against women without reinforcing the American prison state, and use criminalization as a technique of last-not first-resort"--Provided by publisher Analysis american prison state carceral approach criminal justice system criminal law criminalization criminology domestic violence female victimhood feminism forced separation gender crime gender studies hyper incarceration law enforcement mandatory arrests mass incarceration no drop prosecutions nonfiction police prosecutors rape sentencing sexual assault sexual violence sexuality social science war on crime white female victimhood women of color womens studies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Women -- Crimes against -- Law and legislation -- United States Women prisoners -- United States Feminist criminology -- United States Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology. Criminal justice, Administration of Feminist criminology Women -- Crimes against -- Law and legislation Women prisoners United States Form Electronic book LC no. 2019049550 ISBN 9780520973145 0520973143

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