TY  - SER
AU  - Loney-Howes, Rachel
AU  - Longbottom, Marlene
AU  - Fileborn, Bianca
TI  - Gender-based violence and carceral feminism in Australia: towards decarceral approaches
PY  - 2024///
PB  - Springer, 
KW  - ABOLITION
KW  - COERCIVE CONTROL
KW  - COLONISATION
KW  - CRIMINAL JUSTICE
KW  - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
KW  - FEMINISM
KW  - INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
KW  - INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
KW  - LAW REFORM
KW  - IWI TAKETAKE
KW  - VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
KW  - INTERNATIONAL
KW  - AUSTRALIA
N1  - Feminist Legal Studies, 2024, 32(2): 163-185
N2  - This article explores the limitations of criminal legal responses to gender-based violence in Australia, specifically sexual assault law reforms and the criminalisation of coercive control. We demonstrate that carceral horizons deployed to address gender-based violence cause further harm to survivors and overshadow diverse perceptions and practices of justice. We suggest that such an approach is inappropriate and dangerous in the Australian context, given the historical and enduring harms of colonisation and the extent to which the actors within and the structure of the criminal legal system perpetrate violence towards Indigenous survivors of gender-based violence. Drawing on insights from research on survivors’ justice needs, survivors’ experiences in the criminal legal system, and abolitionist, transformative, and Indigenous scholarship, we discuss the potential for alternative ways of conceptualising justice responses in the Australian context that move beyond and avoid further perpetuating the harms arising from criminal legal responses to gender-based violence. (Authors' abstract).

This paper appears in a Special issue: After #MeToo: Law, Justice and Sexual Violence - follow the link for the Table of contents. Record #8622
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-024-09546-z
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-024-09552-1
UR  - https://link.springer.com/journal/10691/volumes-and-issues/32-2
ER  -