What About ‘the Sex Offenders’? Addressing Sexual Harm from an Abolitionist Perspective

Ilea, Adina

doi:10.1007/s10612-018-9406-y

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“…These approaches be paired with macro-level interventions, for example: seeking to fund and facilitate programmes that prevent violence before it happens; developing programmes and services that acknowledge the over-representation of racialised persons in criminalised populations; and refusing, where possible, to partner with or further the reach of carceral systems (Taylor, 2018;Levine and Meiners, 2020). Ilea (2018) offers a framework for this kind of work in their exploration of the Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) model that has been used to work with those who have been criminalised for sexual offences, which focuses on providing a range of holistic services to support service users' transition out of the carceral system via providing robust mental health, housing, employment and social supports. In this process, social work could play an active role in deconstructing the image of the violent Other perpetrating GBSV and pushing back against binary labels of 'good/normal' and 'bad/abnormal' that allow the community to alienate perpetrators and dodge accountability for GBSV (Sweet, 2016;Taylor, 2019;Levine and Meiners, 2020;Richie and Martensen, 2020).…”

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Disrupting the carceral narrative of gender-based and sexual violence

Brockbank

2023

Critical and Radical Social Work

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This discussion seeks to critically explore the white, colonial narrative of gender-based and sexual violence that has justified and facilitated increased carceral power in responding to the social issue. In particular, I aim to emphasise the ways in which carcerality obscures the complex histories and dynamics of gender-based and sexual violence in order to individualise and privatise the problem. To demonstrate these dynamics, I will analyse: (1) the characterisation of perpetrators of gender-based and sexual violence as violent ‘Others’; (2) the centring of white women’s narratives in justifying increases to carceral power and implementing criminalising policies; (3) the extension of the carceral gaze through social work service provision; and (4) the fallacies of postfeminism facilitated by carceral logics. This discussion will conclude with exploring the possibilities of abolitionist social work and anti-carceral feminism in challenging the white narrative and creating space for partial histories to emerge.

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Disrupting the carceral narrative of gender-based and sexual violence

Brockbank

2023

Critical and Radical Social Work

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“…There is a great reading 'What about the sex offender' by Adina Ilea (2018), which really shows how discussions around sex offenders are breaking down the abolitionist argument, because many feminists would say 'yes we can have a world without prisons. But what about sex offenders?…”

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Anti-Carceral Feminism: Abolitionist Conversations on Gender-Based Violence

D’Avolio,

Cavalcanti,

Dadusc

2023

Plural Feminisms

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“…1). Generally, criminologists who speak of abolition are referring to a dismantling of all systems of punishment and retribution that fail to adequately address, prevent, or repair social harms (Coyle and Schept ; Ilea ; Mathiesen ; Morris ; Piché and Larsen ).…”

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Doing Public Criminology with the Criminal Justice Voluntary Sector: Methodological Reflections and Considerations

McAleese

2019

Howard J Crime Justice

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Criminological literature outlines various roles for public criminologists and reflects on both the form and purpose of public criminology. This article reviews this literature and considers institutional and political activist ethnography as methods through which criminologists can address critique, and better combine social justice research and advocacy work. Such methodological considerations demonstrate that, for some, 'doing' public criminology means actively engaging in advocacy work alongside research participants and other activists. Examples and reflections from the author's own work with the criminal justice voluntary sector (CJVS) in Canada demonstrate that a public criminology informed by institutional and political activist ethnography is especially important if we want to: (i) better understand the role of the sector in supporting people with criminal records; and (ii) strengthen the relationship between academics, policymakers, advocates, practitioners, and people with lived experience of criminalisation and punishment.

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What About ‘the Sex Offenders’? Addressing Sexual Harm from an Abolitionist Perspective

Cited by 16 publications

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Disrupting the carceral narrative of gender-based and sexual violence

Disrupting the carceral narrative of gender-based and sexual violence

Anti-Carceral Feminism: Abolitionist Conversations on Gender-Based Violence

Doing Public Criminology with the Criminal Justice Voluntary Sector: Methodological Reflections and Considerations

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