Book contents
- Policing the Womb
- Policing the Womb
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Pregnancy and State Power
- 3 Creeping Criminalization of Pregnancy across the United States
- 4 Abortion Law
- 5 Changing Roles of Doctors and Nurses: Hospital Snitches and Police Informants
- 6 Revisiting the Fiduciary Relationship
- 7 Creating Criminals: Race, Stereotypes, and Collateral Damage
- 8 The Pregnancy Penalty: When the State Gets It Wrong
- 9 Policing Beyond the Border
- 10 Lessons for Law and Society: A Reproductive Justice New Deal or Bill of Rights
- 11 Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Epilogue
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 February 2020
Book contents
- Policing the Womb
- Policing the Womb
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Pregnancy and State Power
- 3 Creeping Criminalization of Pregnancy across the United States
- 4 Abortion Law
- 5 Changing Roles of Doctors and Nurses: Hospital Snitches and Police Informants
- 6 Revisiting the Fiduciary Relationship
- 7 Creating Criminals: Race, Stereotypes, and Collateral Damage
- 8 The Pregnancy Penalty: When the State Gets It Wrong
- 9 Policing Beyond the Border
- 10 Lessons for Law and Society: A Reproductive Justice New Deal or Bill of Rights
- 11 Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Over the years, through my research on sexual violence, it becomes clearer that these problems of disparate sentencing, lenient sentences for some rapists, the stigmatization of female and transgendered victims, and the punishment of women – both as victims and perpetrators – occupy a global space not confined to the United States. That is, judges globally are making poor decisions regarding rape and incest.
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- Policing the WombInvisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood, pp. 209 - 222Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020