Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2014
ISSN
2572-7788
Publisher
City University of New York
Language
en-US
Abstract
The growing calls for the “securitization of body and property,”[ii] documented by Jonathan Simon in his book Governing Through Crime, illustrates a deep tension in our understanding of the role of criminal law as a tool for societal transformation.[iii] For some, including communities of color, the criminal legal system is a place where inequality flourishes;[iv] for others, including those feminists who have support criminal law interventions, it has become a tool to realize equality.[v] The Trafficking Victims Protection Act, reauthorized in 2013 as an amendment to the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA),[vi] relies heavily on the criminal law to obtain its goals. Countering the conventional reliance on criminal law, critical feminist legal scholars concerned about the detrimental impact on poor communities and communities of color. They critique the criminal law orientation of TVPA and VAWA for contributing to the destabilization of communities, particularly, communities of color.[vii] The carceral aspects of VAWA/TVPA also raise difficult questions for antiviolence advocates concerned about the war on crime, including, mass-incarceration. How has this “feminist war on crime,”[viii] backfired?
Recommended Citation
Aziza Ahmed,
HIV, Violence Against Women, and Criminal Law Interventions
,
in
18
CUNY Law Reiew
24
(2014).
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https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/3108
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