Ackhurst, Molly ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8607-5238 and Aaron, Nic (2022) The productive character of carcerality: how are carceral logics producing and shaping critical feminist approaches to sexual violence? In: SLSA Annual Conference (Socio-Legal Studies Association), 6th - 8th April 2022, York Law School, University of Law3. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Despite decades of feminist attempts to remedy the failures and harms of the legal punishment system, few are charged with crimes of sexual violence, less reach court and even less are convicted. The system not only continues to re-traumatise survivors and systemically fail to meet their needs, but justifies its own expansion by positioning itself as their defenders. In so doing, harm - through forms of sexual and state violence - is produced and reproduced. And yet, in spite of this a continued attachment to a seemingly irreformable “justice” system remains; arguably precluding both accountability and transformation and fostering an impasse. Exploring the types of discourse that critical feminist academic texts engage in around justice and sexual violence, alongside broader feminist attachments to particular embodiments of “high risk sex offenders”, this seminar posits that a key reason for this impasse is the ways in which carceral logics circulate through critical feminist approaches to sexual violence. By looking to Black queer feminist abolitionist praxis this seminar consequently seeks to explore the ways in which feminist holding on to the legal punishment system can be theorised as a state of impasse that originates from the productive and embodied nature of carceral logics.

Item Type:	Conference or Conference Paper (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sexual violence, feminist politics, carcerality, prison abolition
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) J Political Science > JA Political science (General) K Law > K Law (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Law & Criminology (LAC)
Last Modified:	05 Mar 2025 10:18
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/49947

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