Tag: Criminalization

Free Download Kenneth M. Bilby, "Enacting Power: The Criminalization of Obeah in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1760-2011"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 9766403155 | PDF | pages: 188 | 7.6 mb
More than two and a half centuries after it was first outlawed in Jamaica in 1760, obeah remains illegal in most territories of the former British West Indies. Yet, opinions on the meaning and essential nature of this controversial Afro-Caribbean spiritual phenomenon vary widely. While many contemporary West Indians hold negative views of obeah, viewing it as evil witchcraft or sorcery, others point to its widespread use in healing, protection from harm and solving a wide range of everyday problems – positive views that were also commonly held by enslaved West Indians in earlier generations.

Free Download Michaela Soyer, "The Price of Freedom: Criminalization and the Management of Outsiders in Germany and the United States"
English | ISBN: 0520394259 | 2023 | 214 pages | PDF | 873 KB
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Free Download Heather Douglas, "The Criminalization of Violence Against Women: Comparative Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 0197651844 | 2023 | 344 pages | EPUB, PDF | 902 KB + 14 MB
Historically states have failed to seriously confront violence against women. In response, in many countries women’s rights movements have called on the government to prioritize state intervention in cases involving violence between intimate partners, sexual harassment, rape, and sexual assault by both strangers and intimate partners. Those interventions have taken various forms, including the passage of substantive civil and criminal laws governing intimate partner violence, rape and sexual assault, and sexual harassment; the development of civil orders of protection; and the introduction of procedures in the criminal legal system to ensure the effective intervention of police and prosecutors. Indeed, many countries have relied upon intervention by the criminal legal system to meet their requirements under international human rights standards that obligate states to prevent, protect from, prosecute, punish, and provide redress for violence. Although states have taken divergent approaches to the passage and implementation of criminal laws and procedures to address violence against women, two things are clear: criminalization is a primary strategy relied upon by most nations, and yet criminalization is not having the desired impact.

Free Download Amy Adele Hasinoff, "Sexting Panic: Rethinking Criminalization, Privacy, and Consent (Feminist Media Studies)"
English | 2015 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 0252038983 | EPUB | 0,9 mb
Sexting Panic illustrates how anxieties about technology and teen girls’ sexuality distract from critical questions about how to adapt norms of privacy and consent for new media. Though mobile phones can be used to cause harm, Amy Adele Hasinoff notes that criminalization and abstinence policies meant to curb sexting often fail to account for the distinction between consensual sharing and the malicious distribution of a private image. Hasinoff challenges the idea that sexting inevitably victimizes young women. Instead, she encourages us to recognize young people’s capacity for choice and recommends responses to sexting that are realistic and nuanced rather than based on misplaced fears about deviance, sexuality, and digital media.

Free Download Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris, Kristyl Dawn Tift, Tantor Audio
English | 2016 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B01M046D9X | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 128 Kbps / 8 hours and 54 minutes | 122 Mb
Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. After months on the run, she was arrested and sent to a detention center for violating a court order to attend school. Just 16 percent of female students, Black girls make up more than one-third of all girls with a school-related arrest.
The first trade book to tell these untold stories, Pushout exposes a world of confined potential and supports the growing movement to address the policies, practices, and cultural illiteracy that push countless students out of school and into unhealthy, unstable, and often unsafe futures. For four years, Monique W. Morris chronicled the experiences of Black girls across the country whose intricate lives are misunderstood, highly judged – by teachers, administrators, and the justice system – and degraded by the very institutions charged with helping them flourish. Morris shows how, despite obstacles, Black girls still find ways to breathe remarkable dignity into their lives in classrooms, juvenile facilities, and beyond.

Free Download Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B8PGCYZH | 2023 | 13 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 384 MB
Author: Michele Goodwin
Narrator: Robin Eller
Policing the Womb brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies. Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive health and rights debate beyond abortion to include how legislators increasingly turn to criminalizing women for miscarriages, stillbirths, and threatening the health of their pregnancies. The horrific results include women giving birth while shackled in leg irons, in solitary confinement, and even delivering in prison toilets. In some states, pregnancy has become a bargaining chip with prosecutors offering reduced sentences in exchange for women agreeing to be sterilized.