From the denial of abortion rights in Northern Ireland to sexual violence in South Asian communities, this book offers a counter narrative to the criminal justice system’s failures towards women, mapping a feminist criminology for the 21st century.

From the denial of abortion rights in Northern Ireland to sexual violence against British South Asian women in England, the criminal justice system continues to fail women. This book offers a counter narrative to contemporary injustices.Mapping a feminist criminology for the 21st century, academics and activists address the failures of current policy and practice relating to women.

Part I: Feminist Epistemology1. Introduction: Denying Oppression a Future – Gender, the State and Feminist Praxis – Kym Atkinson, Úna Barr and Helen Monk2. Denying Violence Against Women a Future: Feminist Epistemology and the Struggle for Social Justice – Anette BallingerPart II: State Practice and Feminist Praxis3. State (In)action and Feminist Resistance to the Denial of Abortion Rights in Northern Ireland – Maev McDaid and Brian Christopher Nelis4. At the Limits of ‘Acceptable’ Speech: A Feminist Analysis of Official Discourse on Child Sexual Abuse – Katie Tucker5. Universities, Sexual Violence and the Institutional Operation of Power – Kym Atkinson6. Gender, Policing and Social Order: Restating the Case for a Feminist Analysis of Policing – Will Jackson and Helen Monk7. Sanctuary as Social Justice: A Feminist Critique – Victoria CanningPart III: The Criminal Justice System and Feminist Praxis8. Constructing a Feminist Desistance: Resisting Responsibilization – Úna Barr and Emily Luise Hart9. Improving Police Responses to Sexual Abuse Offences Against British South Asian Women – Aisha K. Gill10. Traumatizing the Traumatized: Self-Harm and Death in Women’s Prisons in England and Wales – Kym Atkinson, Helen Monk and Joe Sim11. Sensing Injustice? Defences to Murder – Adrian Howe12. An Anti-Carceral Feminist Response to Youth Justice Involved Girls – Jodie HodgsonAfterword – Pragna Patel