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Book review: The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence

Adams, Felicity

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Felicity Adams



Abstract

The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence (Levine and Meiners, 2020) is a powerful, reflexive and much needed abolition feminist critique of carceral responses to sexual and gender violence and how feminism should support us in transcending ineffective, racialized criminal legal responses and institutions. The authors, Judith Levine and Erica Meiners, provide a deep analysis of the frequently peripheralized relationship between feminism, sexual and gender violence, and the intersectional harms perpetuated by the carceral state. Their timely account is formed in view of the #MeToo movement and the retributive and narrow legal terrain within the context of the sexual offences regime in the United States.

Journal Article Type Book Review
Acceptance Date Nov 4, 2020
Online Publication Date Nov 4, 2020
Publication Date Nov 4, 2020
Publicly Available Date May 26, 2023
Journal Social & Legal Studies
Print ISSN 0964-6639
Electronic ISSN 1461-7390
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 30
Issue 2
Pages 096466392097178 - 096466392097178
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663920971781
Keywords sexual violence, gender violence, feminism, sex offenders
Publisher URL https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0964663920971781

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