“Six Months Is a Joke”: Carceral Feminism and Penal Populism in the Wake of the Stanford Sexual Assault Case

Phillips, Nickie D.; Chagnon, Nicholas

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“…4 Generally speaking, 'rape culture' sought to, first, describe how the political, legal and cultural subordination of women creates the conditions for rape to occur and, second, to illustrate the extent to which the experiences of rape survivors who speak out are undermined by the prevalence of rape myths and victim-blaming (Buchwald, Fletcher, & Roth, 1993). Rape culture too refers to how male sexual aggression and female sexual passivity are constructed and naturalised, as well as seeing to challenge the idea that the actions of individual men are the cause of rape and sexual violence, and the systematic ways sexual violence is condoned or at least tolerated by society (Gavey, 2005;Guckenheimer, 2008;Keller, Mendes, & Ringrose, 2016;Phillips & Chagnon, 2018). Another element of rape culture is the notion of the 'rape apologist'; an individual who make excuses for, or denies the prevalence of rape and sexual violence (Stiebert, 2018).…”

Section: Backlash In the 1990smentioning

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Online Anti-Rape Activism: Exploring the Politics of the Personal in the Age of Digital Media

Loney-Howes¹

2020

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Emerald Studies in Criminology, Feminism and Social Change offers a platform for innovative, engaged, and forward-looking feminist-informed work to explore the interconnections between social change and the capacity of criminology to grapple with the implications of such change.Social change, whether as a result of the movement of peoples, the impact of new technologies, the potential consequences of climate change, or more commonly identified features of changing societies, such as ageing populations, inter-generational conflict, the changing nature of work, increasing awareness of the problem of gendered violence(s), and/or changing economic and political context, takes its toll across the globe in infinitely more nuanced and inter-connected ways than previously imagined. Each of these connections carry implications for what is understood as crime, the criminal, the victim of crime and the capacity of criminology as a discipline to make sense of these evolving interconnections. Feminist analysis, despite its contentious relationship with the discipline of criminology, has much to offer in strengthening the discipline to better understand the complexity of the world in the twenty-first century and to scan the horizon for emerging, possible or likely futures.This series invites feminist-informed scholars, particularly those working comparatively across disciplinary boundaries to take up the challenges posed by social change for the discipline of criminology. The series offers authors a space to adopt and develop strong, critical personal views whether in the format of research monographs, single or co-authored books or edited collections. We are keen to promote global views and debates on these issues and welcome proposals embracing such perspectives.

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Section: Backlash In the 1990smentioning

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Online Anti-Rape Activism: Exploring the Politics of the Personal in the Age of Digital Media

Loney-Howes¹

2020

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“…The protection of children and families is one of their big arguments for sex offender registration. However, as online activism becomes a major feature of contemporary feminist movements (Rapp et al, 2010;Salter, 2013;Phillips and Chagnon, 2020), it is important to understand why digital feminism can easily adopt a carceral agenda. This study provides a possible explanation.…”

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“…Sexual offences are a special category of crime, because they reflect the very injustice and cruelty of the patriarchal society, thus often provoking confrontation between the two sexes. Various authors have argued that feminists' fight against male domination can lead them to support the radical use of state power against sexual offences (Snider, 1998;Bumiller, 2008;Phillips and Chagnon, 2020). Among them, Bernstein (2012) coined the term 'carceral feminism'.…”

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Exploring the Bottom-Up Reform of Sex Offender Registration in China: Carceral Feminism and Populist Authoritarianism

Chen

2020

Crime Law Soc Change

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In 2017, the Minhang District of Shanghai introduced sex offender registration. This reform attracted positive reactions on social media. Local governments in Jiangsu, Guangdong and Chongqing quickly followed the precedent. In 2019, the central government announced that it will establish national sex offender registries by 2022, although it limited the scope of registration to paedophiles. This study explores how this bottom-up reform unfolded and what implications it has in theory and practice. Based on qualitative and quantitative analysis of 2261 posts on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, this study reveals two major players in the current reform: the Chinese feminists who are pursuing a punitive agenda online (a phenomenon known as 'carceral feminism'), and the local governments that are eager to win the public's trust, although such trust is mainly reserved for the central authority in the Chinese political culture (a culture known as 'populist authoritarianism'). Drawing on the findings, this study pushes the discussion about Chinese penal policy beyond the dichotomy of 'penal professionalism' and 'penal populism'. It argues that while the influence of professionalism is evident in central-level policy making, local penal policies can be easily led by populist punitiveness. The latter deserves more academic attention. This study also takes a non-partisan approach to the feminist movements on Chinese social media. It reveals the class conflicts and regional inequality underlying the gender schism. The polarisation effect in online discussion is also highlighted, which alerts policy makers to the reliability of 'public opinion' online.

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“…Rural criminology, for instance, could analyze how HIV criminalization impacts rural PLHIV without access to treatment or health services (seeDonnermeyer and DeKeseredy 2013). Feminist criminology has an opportunity to place HIV criminalization laws in the context of the trend to increase punishments for sexual assault crimes(Phillips and Chagnon 2020).…”

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Toward a Critical Criminology of HIV Criminalization

Novak

2021

Crit Crim

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Persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (hereinafter, "PLHIV") face barriers at each stage of the criminal justice process, including prosecution for non-disclosure of HIV status. Justice institutions reinforce the stigma of HIV, which has perverse consequences for HIV prevention and treatment services. This article takes a critical criminological approach to "HIV criminalization," using the frames of queer criminology and epidemiological criminology to analyze both the punishment of "deviant" sex and the public health consequences of HIV stigma. Finally, this article offers a comprehensive consideration of the criminal justice barriers that PLHIV face in light of current criminological research, providing both mainstream and critical criminologists new insights into the social construction of deviance, legitimacy of institutions, definition of victims, and purposes of punishment.

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“Six Months Is a Joke”: Carceral Feminism and Penal Populism in the Wake of the Stanford Sexual Assault Case

Cited by 24 publications

References 31 publications

Online Anti-Rape Activism: Exploring the Politics of the Personal in the Age of Digital Media

Online Anti-Rape Activism: Exploring the Politics of the Personal in the Age of Digital Media

Exploring the Bottom-Up Reform of Sex Offender Registration in China: Carceral Feminism and Populist Authoritarianism

Toward a Critical Criminology of HIV Criminalization

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