Title
A Feminist Call for Transforming the Criminal Justice System
Publication Date
2017
Document Type
Article
Abstract
In the past 30 years, the number of incarcerated women in the United States has increased at a faster rate than that of men. This article outlines the ideologies and mechanisms of the “Prison Nation” and calls on social workers to conceptualize the effects of mass incarceration of women as an urgent social justice issue. We call for feminist social workers to adopt an anti-oppressive orientation to justice-involved women, build social work responses around national reform measures, and advocate for decarceration and restorative justice as a paradigm for responding to women’s involvement in systems which criminalize them.
Original Citation
Willison, J.S. & O’Brien, P. (2017). A Feminist Call for Transforming the Criminal Justice System. Affilia, 32(1), 37-49. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886109916658080
Identifier
Virtual Commons Citation
Willison, Judith S. and O'Brien, Patricia (2017). A Feminist Call for Transforming the Criminal Justice System. In Social Work Faculty Publications. Paper 53.
Available at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/socialwork_fac/53