RT Article
T1 Help or Harm? Criminalizing Intimate Partner Violence and Feminist Abolitionist Frames
JF Violence against women
VO 31
IS 6/7
SP 1670
OP 1687
A1 Derr, Katelyn
A2 Hattery, Angela 1966-
A2 Smith, Earl 1946-
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1922492345
AB After decades of work by feminists to criminalize domestic violence, more recently feminist abolitionists have identified the harm that the carceral state has on all impacted by it, including victims/survivors. Based on interviews with a diverse sample of 22 women and men who were system impacted, we find evidence of cases in which the criminal legal system both helped and harmed the victim/survivor. We identify policy interventions that promote alternative methods to intervening in intimate partner violence relationships that center the victim/survivor, create safety, and reduce the increased surveillance and overall impact of the criminal legal system.
K1 Abolition
K1 criminal legal system
K1 Race
K1 Intimate Partner Violence
K1 Domestic Violence
DO 10.1177/10778012241234895