Beth E. Richie is head of the Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice and Professor of Black Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Richie is the author of Compelled to Crime: the Gender Entrapment of Black Battered Women and Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation and a coeditor of The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences, Working Toward Freedom.
~~tag-text~~
As a politic and a practice, abolition increasingly shapes our political moment—halting the construction of new jails and propelling movements to divest from policing. Yet erased from this landscape are not only the central histories of feminist—usual... SEE MORE