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Book SynopsisFrom the denial of abortion rights in Ireland to sexual violence against British South Asian women in England, the state and its institutions continue to fail women. This book offers a counter-narrative to contemporary injustices and a persistent culture of victim-blaming. The academic and activist contributions to this collection explore contemporary research areas and pursue new discursive directions in order to present a feminist criminology, built on feminist praxis, for the 21st century. Providing a direct challenge to regressive and ineffective theory, policy and practice, this book resists the politics of gendered victimization through extending feminist analyses of the state and documenting interventions into contemporary injustices.
Table of ContentsPart I: Feminist Epistemology 1. Introduction: Denying Oppression a Future – Gender, the State and Feminist Praxis – Kym Atkinson, Úna Barr and Helen Monk 2. Denying Violence Against Women a Future: Feminist Epistemology and the Struggle for Social Justice – Anette Ballinger Part II: State Practice and Feminist Praxis 3. State (In)action and Feminist Resistance to the Denial of Abortion Rights in Northern Ireland – Maev McDaid and Brian Christopher Nelis 4. At the Limits of ‘Acceptable’ Speech: A Feminist Analysis of Official Discourse on Child Sexual Abuse – Katie Tucker 5. Universities, Sexual Violence and the Institutional Operation of Power – Kym Atkinson 6. Gender, Policing and Social Order: Restating the Case for a Feminist Analysis of Policing – Will Jackson and Helen Monk 7. Sanctuary as Social Justice: A Feminist Critique – Victoria Canning Part III: The Criminal Justice System and Feminist Praxis 8. Constructing a Feminist Desistance: Resisting Responsibilization – Úna Barr and Emily Luise Hart 9. Improving Police Responses to Sexual Abuse Offences Against British South Asian Women – Aisha K. Gill 10. Traumatizing the Traumatized: Self-Harm and Death in Women’s Prisons in England and Wales – Kym Atkinson, Helen Monk and Joe Sim 11. Sensing Injustice? Defences to Murder – Adrian Howe 12. An Anti-Carceral Feminist Response to Youth Justice Involved Girls – Jodie Hodgson Afterword – Pragna Patel
