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Carceral Feminism - is this a thing now?

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AgileLass · 10/08/2019 20:44

I keep seeing this phrase in some feminist Facebook groups, always in a tone of the deepest disapproval.

I just don’t get it... how can wanting men to be punished for violence against women and girls be unfeminist? Is it more feminist nowadays to be in favour of prison abolitionism? I can see how women suffer disproportionately from punitive sentencing for non-violent crimes, but surely violent criminals (overwhelmingly male) need to be punished and removed from society, perhaps forever.

Can anyone explain the logic? Am I missing something?

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FermatsTheorem · 10/08/2019 21:14

It's another form of dick-centring pseudo feminism. It's something that identifies the person who says it as a complete tosser.

Anti-carceralism itself probably started from a set of good intentions - recognising that the US in particular disproportionately imprisons black, and to a lesser extent, poor people, and that people from these demographics are much more likely to be found guilty, and if found guilty much more likely to get harsh sentences, than middle class white people. It stressed alternatives to custody for first/minor offences, and an emphasis on rehabilitation rather than retribution within the criminal justice system.

But in the hands of the dick-pandering idiots it has morphed into this monster which feels that we must embrace "restorative justice" i.e. have the poor, maligned sex offender say "I'm vewwy, vewwy sowwy" with his fingers crossed behind his back then let him off with a slap on the wrist.

TurboTeddy · 10/08/2019 21:08

I'd never heard the term either, this is what wiki says. Sounds like liberal feminism which I think focuses more on equality (centering men) than women's liberation.

Examining the contemporary anti-trafficking movement in the United States, Bernstein introduced the term to describe a type of feminist activism which casts all forms of sexual labor as sex-trafficking.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carceral_feminism

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