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What Imperfect Victims like Sally McNeil Show us About the Criminal Justice System
Dec 15 2022
By Leigh Goodmark, author of Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition FeminismSally McNeil, like many of the people featured in my new book, Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism, is an imperfect victim.The subject of th
Editor Spotlight: Meet our Criminology and Law Editor Maura Roessner
May 24 2021
As part of our ongoing Editor Spotlight Series, we connected with UC Press Executive Editor Maura Roessner to talk about her Criminology, Law, and Society program, and how she spots the right projects and authors. Maura also shares details about how she became an editor and advice for authors who wa
How representing victims of domestic violence turned me into a prison abolitionist
Jul 20 2020
by Leigh Goodmark, author of Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner ViolenceIf you had told me 25 years ago that I would eventually call myself a prison abolitionist, I would have called you crazy.In 1995, I was a brand-new lawyer representing victi