ackhurst, molly ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8607-5238 (2025) From one crisis to the next: examining the relationship between police crises and the British sexual violence sector’s “need” to improve the police. In: Davanna, Tracey and Rossi, Federica, (eds.) Policing in Crisis? Policing and Resistance in the 21st century. Bristol University Press - Policy Press, Bristol, UK. ISBN 978-1529244045

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Abstract

Within sexual violence support work an enduring paradox persists: despite knowing and experiencing the ways in which the carceral systems largely cannot provide justice to survivors of sexual violence, feminist sexual violence support services continue to seek to improve the police. Through engagement with Lauren Berlant’s (2010) work on crisis, this chapter contends that – when it comes to the topic of sexual violence and justice – police crises do not merely encourage a desire for reform. Instead, they are part of what Berlant would call an ongoing crisis ordinariness that makes “getting justice” both feel and seem impossible. In attending to the affective work of crisis, this chapter calls for the importance of interventions that reckon with the complexity of feminist attachments in the present.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sexual violence; policing; cruel optimism; crisis; justice
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare 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:	19 Aug 2025 10:41
URI:	https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/48090

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