Free Download Heather Douglas, "The Criminalization of Violence Against Women: Comparative Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 0197651844 | 2023 | 344 pages | EPUB, PDF | 902 KB + 14 MB
Historically states have failed to seriously confront violence against women. In response, in many countries women's rights movements have called on the government to prioritize state intervention in cases involving violence between intimate partners, sexual harassment, rape, and sexual assault by both strangers and intimate partners. Those interventions have taken various forms, including the passage of substantive civil and criminal laws governing intimate partner violence, rape and sexual assault, and sexual harassment; the development of civil orders of protection; and the introduction of procedures in the criminal legal system to ensure the effective intervention of police and prosecutors. Indeed, many countries have relied upon intervention by the criminal legal system to meet their requirements under international human rights standards that obligate states to prevent, protect from, prosecute, punish, and provide redress for violence. Although states have taken divergent approaches to the passage and implementation of criminal laws and procedures to address violence against women, two things are clear: criminalization is a primary strategy relied upon by most nations, and yet criminalization is not having the desired impact.

Free Download Amy Adele Hasinoff, "Sexting Panic: Rethinking Criminalization, Privacy, and Consent (Feminist Media Studies)"
English | 2015 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 0252038983 | EPUB | 0,9 mb
Sexting Panic illustrates how anxieties about technology and teen girls' sexuality distract from critical questions about how to adapt norms of privacy and consent for new media. Though mobile phones can be used to cause harm, Amy Adele Hasinoff notes that criminalization and abstinence policies meant to curb sexting often fail to account for the distinction between consensual sharing and the malicious distribution of a private image. Hasinoff challenges the idea that sexting inevitably victimizes young women. Instead, she encourages us to recognize young people's capacity for choice and recommends responses to sexting that are realistic and nuanced rather than based on misplaced fears about deviance, sexuality, and digital media.

Free Download Michelle Smirnova, "The Prescription-to-Prison Pipeline: The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain"
English | ISBN: 1478019697 | 2023 | 176 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In The Prescription-to-Prison Pipeline Michelle Smirnova argues that the ongoing opioid drug epidemic is the result of an endless cycle in which suffering is medicalized and drug use is criminalized. Drawing on interviews with eighty incarcerated individuals in Missouri correctional institutions, Smirnova shows how contradictions in medical practices, social ideals, and legal policies disproportionately criminalize the poor for their social condition. This criminalization further exacerbates and perpetuates drug addiction and poverty. Tracing the processes by which social issues are constructed as biomedical ones that necessitate pharmacological intervention, Smirnova highlights how inequitable surveillance, policing, and punishment of marginalized populations intensify harms associated with both treatment and punishment, especially given that the distinctions between the two have become blurred. By focusing on the stories of people whose pain and pharmaceutical treatment led to incarceration, Smirnova challenges the binary of individual and social problems, effectively exploring how the conceptualization, diagnosis, and treatment of substance use may exacerbate outcomes such as relapse, recidivism, poverty, abuse, and death.

Criminalization of Activism: Historical, Present and Future Perspectives By Valeria Vegh Weis (editor)
2021 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0367700123 | PDF | 4 MB
Criminalization of Activism draws on a multiplicity of perspectives and case studies from the Global South and Global North to show how protest has been subject to processes of criminalisation over time. Contributors are made of up scholars and activist from different disciplinary backgrounds, with a balance between authors from the Global North and the Global South. An introduction frames the topic within critical criminology, while also highlighting the possible disciplinary approaches and definitions of criminalization of resistance/activism. The editors also look into the particularities of the current times in comparison to dynamics of criminalization in prior stages of capitalism. The first part offers four different theoretical approaches to understand the complex interrelations between politics and criminalization of resistance. Second, the book offers case studies to expose certain historical patterns in the criminalization of riots, experiences of resistance and class struggle. This includes an analysis of the cast system in India, neoliberalism and social inequality in Argentina and refugees in Italy and Greece. The third part of the book deals with three further case studies which expose trends in the historical criminalization of policing and prison related struggles, analysing prison riots in the United States and Argentina, and the civil rights movement confronting police brutality in the United States. Part four provides insight into historical patterns in the criminalization of political activities, with case studies on Italian leftist activism, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Catalonian struggle for independence. The last part of the book deals with the criminalization of green struggles, examining the green ban in Australia, indigenous struggles in Brazil and Ecuador and environmental demonstrations in Belgium. Finally, the conclusion analyses the interactions between the different contributions and discusses the future challenges to this field of study. Bringing together a range of criminalisation themes into a single volume, compromising historical criminology, indigenous studies, gender studies, critical criminology, southern criminology, convict criminology and green criminology, it will be of great interest to scholars and students of criminology and sociology, as well as those involved in activism.

English | 2017 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B07621GZ1P | Duration: 7:31 h | 312 MB
Peter Edelman / Narrated by Eric G. Dove

Pushout : the criminalization of Black girls in schools By Morris, Monique W
2016 | 277 Pages | ISBN: 1620970945 | EPUB | 2 MB
"Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. After months on the run, she was arrested and sent to a detention center for violating a court order to attend school. Black girls represent 16 percent of female students but almost half of all girls with a school-related arrest. The first trade book to tell these untold stories, Pushout exposes a world of confined potential and supports the growing movement to address the policies, practices, and cultural illiteracy that push countless students out of school and into unhealthy, unstable, and often unsafe futures. For four years Monique W. Morris, author of Black Stats, chronicled the experiences of black girls across the country whose intricate lives are misunderstood, highly judged-by teachers, administrators, and the justice system-and degraded by the very institutions charged with helping them flourish. Morris shows how, despite obstacles, stigmas, stereotypes, and despair, black girls still find ways to breathe remarkable dignity into their lives in classrooms, juvenile facilities, and beyond."--