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Imperfect Victims

Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism

By: Leigh Goodmark

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Imperfect Victims

Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism

By: Leigh Goodmark

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 of victims, particularly women of color and trans and gender-nonconforming people. Imperfect Victims argues that only dismantling the system will bring that punishment to an end. Amplifying the voices of survivors, including her own clients, abolitionist law professor Leigh Goodmark deftly guides readers on a step-by-step journey through the criminalization of survival. Abolition feminism reveals the possibility of a just world beyond the carceral state, which is fundamentally unable to respond to, let alone remedy, harm. As Imperfect Victims shows, abolition feminism is the only politics and practice that can undo the indescribable damage inflicted on survivors by the very system purporting to protect them.

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Univ of California Press

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0520391101

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9780520391109

A Troubled Marriage

Domestic Violence and the Legal System

By: Leigh Goodmark

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A Troubled Marriage

Domestic Violence and the Legal System

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Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013 The development of a legal regime to combat domestic violence in the United States has been lauded as one of the feminist movement’s greatest triumphs. But, Leigh Goodmark argues, the resulting system is deeply flawed in ways that prevent it from assisting many women subjected to abuse. The current legal response to domestic violence is excessively focused on physical violence; this narrow definition of abuse fails to provide protection from behaviors that are profoundly damaging, including psychological, economic, and reproductive abuse. The system uses mandatory policies that deny women subjected to abuse autonomy and agency, substituting the state’s priorities for women’s goals. A Troubled Marriage is a provocative exploration of how the legal system’s response to domestic violence developed, why that response is flawed, and what we should do to change it. Goodmark argues for an anti-essentialist system, which would define abuse and allocate power in a manner attentive to the experiences, goals, needs and priorities of individual women. Theoretically rich yet conversational, A Troubled Marriage imagines a legal system based on anti-essentialist principles and suggests ways to look beyond the system to help women find justice and economic stability, engage men in the struggle to end abuse, and develop community accountability for abuse.

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NYU Press

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1479858579

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Decriminalizing Domestic Violence

A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence

By: Leigh Goodmark

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Decriminalizing Domestic Violence

A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence

By: Leigh Goodmark

Decriminalizing Domestic Violence asks the crucial, yet often overlooked, question of why and how the criminal legal system became the primary response to intimate partner violence in the United States. It introduces readers, both new and well versed in the subject, to the ways in which the criminal legal system harms rather than helps those who are subjected to abuse and violence in their homes and communities, and shares how it drives, rather than deters, intimate partner violence. The book examines how social, legal, and financial resources are diverted into a criminal legal apparatus that is often unable to deliver justice or safety to victims or to prevent intimate partner violence in the first place. Envisioned for both courses and research topics in domestic violence, family violence, gender and law, and sociology of law, the book challenges readers to understand intimate partner violence not solely, or even primarily, as a criminal law concern but as an economic, public health, community, and human rights problem. It also argues that only by viewing intimate partner violence through these lenses can we develop a balanced policy agenda for addressing it. At a moment when we are examining our national addiction to punishment, Decriminalizing Domestic Violence offers a thoughtful, pragmatic roadmap to real reform.

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0520968298

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Imperfect Victims

Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism

By: Leigh Goodmark

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Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism

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A Troubled Marriage

Domestic Violence and the Legal System

By: Leigh Goodmark

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Harlequin Love Inspired September 2018 - Box Set 2 of 2

By: Leigh Bale,Janet Tronstad,Laurel Blount

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Harlequin Love Inspired September 2018 - Box Set 2 of 2

By: Leigh Bale,Janet Tronstad,Laurel Blount

Love Inspired brings you three new titles! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. RUNAWAY AMISH BRIDE Colorado Amish Courtships by Leigh Bale Abby Miller jumps at the opportunity to marry Jakob Fisher and start a new life. But when she arrives, she learns the widower didn’t know about the arrangement. As she stays on with Jakob’s family to help with his kids, can Abby still find a permanent place by his side? DRY CREEK DADDY Dry Creek by Janet Tronstad Four years ago, an accident put Mark Nelson into a coma—before Hannah Stelling could tell him she was pregnant with their child. Now she’s back in town and Mark’s recovered. While Hannah knows their little boy needs his father, will she dare to risk her heart again? A BABY FOR THE MINISTER by Laurel Blount Jilted at the altar, Natalie Davis has no one she can turn to. Then Jacob Stone steps in. The single minister is drawn to the beautiful mommy-to-be and wants to help. But when she refuses to accept charity, can he convince her she’s so much more than a ministry project?

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