Carceralism & Law

BOOKS

  • Abdillahi, I. (2022). Black women under state: Surveillance, poverty, & the violence of social assistance. ARP Books.
  • Ernst, B. L. (2023). Challenging confinement: Mass incarceration and the fight for equality in women’s prisons. New York University Press.
  • Hislop, M. (2024). Bodies in the middle: Black women, sexual violence, and complex imaginings of justice. University of South Carolina Press.
  • Hlavka, H. R., & Mulla, S. (2021). Bodies in evidence: Race, gender, and science in sexual assault adjudication. New York University Press.
  • Hoppe, T., Meyer, I. H., De Orio, S., Vogler, S., & Armstrong, M. (2020). Civil commitment of people convicted of sex offenses in the United States. The Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law.
  • Johnson, P., & Dalton, D. (Eds.). (2012). Policing sex. Routledge.
  • Jones, M. D., & Nelson, E. (Eds.). (2023). Who would believe a prisoner? Indiana women’s carceral institutions, 1848-1920. The New Press.
  • McClelland, A. (2024). Criminalized lives: HIV and legal violence. Rutgers University Press.
  • Musto, J. (2016). Control and protect: Collaboration, carceral protection, and domestic sex trafficking in the United States. University of California Press.
  • Peters, A. W. (2015). Responding to human trafficking: Sex, gender, and culture in the law. Penn Press.
  • Schneider, E. A. (2008). Battered women and feminist lawmaking. Yale University Press.
  • Shdaimah, C. S., Leon, C. S., & Wiechelt, S. A. (2023). The compassionate court? Support, surveillance, and survival in prostitution diversion programs. Temple University Press.
  • Stanley, E. A., & Smith, N. (Eds.). (2015). Captive genders: Trans embodiment and the prison industrial complex. AK Press.
  • Wilkinson, B. (2025). Intimate partner femicide: Contesting the legal story. Routledge.

CHAPTERS

  • Goldberg-Hiller, J. (2023). Take back the night. In J. Goldberg-Hiller, Law by night (pp. 134-173). Duke University Press.
  • Suk, J. C. (2021). The Equal Rights Amendment, then and now. In D. Brake, M. Chamallas, & V. L. Williams (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of feminism and law in the United States (pp. 201-219). Oxford Academic Press.
  • Suk, J. C. (2023). The equal protection of feminists and misogynists. In J. C. Suk, After misogyny: How the law fails women and what to do about it (pp. 27-59). University of California Press.

ARTICLES

  • Aranda-Hughes, V., Turanovic, J. J., Mears, D. P., & Pesta, G. B. (2021). Women in solitary confinement: Relationships, pseudofamilies, and the limits of control. Feminist Criminology, 16(1), 47-72. https://doi.org/10.1177/1557085120961441
  • Fischer, A. G. (2024). Bad, mad or both: A legal history of battered woman syndrome. Gender & History, 36(3), 938-951. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12792
  • Girardi, R. (2021). ‘It’s easy to mistrust police when they keep on killing us’: A queer exploration of police violence and LGBTQ+ victimization. Journal of Gender Studies, 31(7), 852–862. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2021.1979481
  • Gonzales, S. M., & Deckard, F. M. (2022). “We got witnesses” Black women’s counter-surveillance for navigating police violence and legal estrangement. Social Problems, 71(3), 894-911. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spac043
  • Haider, B. Z. (2023). Asking the Muslim woman question: Understanding the social and legal construction of Muslim women. Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice, 38, 81-108.  https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38X921K6B
  • Haynes, A. (2024). The other women’s rights movement: ‘Streetwalkers,’ habeas corpus and anticarceral activism in New York City, 1830-1860. Gender & History, 36(3), 840-858. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12810
  • Jenness, V., & Fenstermaker, S. (2016). Forty years after Brownmiller: Prisons for men, transgender inmates, and the rape of the feminine. Gender & Society, 30(1), 14-29. https://doi.org/10.1177/0891243215611856
  • Jones, N. (2021). “I AM a child!”: A girl-child’s truth and the lies of law enforcement. Gender & Society, 35(4), 527-537. https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432211029388
  • King, S., & Flores, J. (2023). “You’re being watched all the time:” Incarcerated girls and gendered surveillance. Girlhood Studies, 16(2). https://doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2023.160207
  • Opsal, T. D. (2009). Women on parole: Understanding the impact of surveillance. Women & Criminal Justice, 19(4), 306-328. https://doi.org/10.1080/08974450903224345
  • Rodríguez, J. M. (2024). Queer of color critique and the decriminalization of sex work. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 30(3), 337-341. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-11177982
  • Rosentel, K. López-Martínez, I., Crosby, R.A., Salazar, L. F., & Hill, B. J. (2021). Black transgender women and the school-to-prison pipeline: Exploring the relationship between anti-trans experiences in school and adverse criminal-legal system outcomes. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 18, 481-494. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-020-00473-7
  • Stenersen, M. R., Thomas, K., & McKee, S. (2022). Police harassment and violence against transgender & gender diverse sex workers in the United States. Journal of Homosexuality, 71(3), 828–840. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2022.2132578
  • Valentine, R. C., & McNeill, Z. (2024). The libidinal law: sexuality and desire in U.S. legal embodiment. Subjectivity, 31, 286-305. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-024-00188-9
  • Whittier, N. (2016). Carceral and intersectional feminism in Congress: The Violence Against Women Act, discourse, and policy. Gender & Society, 30(5), 791-818. https://doi.org/10.1177/0891243216653381