Compelled to Crime
Book description
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Why read it?
1 author picked Compelled to Crime as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Coming out of law school in 1994, around the time of the passage of the Violence Against Women Act, I firmly believed that criminalization was the way to address intimate partner violence. As a new legal services lawyer, I encouraged my clients to turn to the criminal legal system because I believed it would keep them safe.
This book introduced me to the reality that that system was punishing survivors and showed me how Black survivors of violence were uniquely vulnerable to criminalization. I owe a massive debt to Beth Richie’s work.
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