Why read Compelled to Crime?

Book cover of Compelled to Crime: The Gender Entrapment of Battered, Black Women

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First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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1 author picked Compelled to Crime as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Leigh Goodmark

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Coming out of law school in 1994, around the time of the passage of the Violence Against Women Act, I firmly believed that criminalization was the way to address intimate partner violence. As a new legal services lawyer, I encouraged my clients to turn to the criminal legal system because I believed it would keep them safe.

This book introduced me to the reality that that system was punishing survivors and showed me how Black survivors of violence were uniquely vulnerable to criminalization. I owe a massive debt to Beth Richie’s work.

From Leigh's list on The best anger-inducing non-fiction books on women and the criminal legal system.