Book review: The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence

Adams, Felicity

Abstract

The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence (Levine and Meiners, 2020) is a powerful, reflexive and much needed abolition feminist critique of carceral responses to sexual and gender violence and how feminism should support us in transcending ineffective, racialized criminal legal responses and institutions. The authors, Judith Levine and Erica Meiners, provide a deep analysis of the frequently peripheralized relationship between feminism, sexual and gender violence, and the intersectional harms perpetuated by the carceral state. Their timely account is formed in view of the #MeToo movement and the retributive and narrow legal terrain within the context of the sexual offences regime in the United States.

• Journal Article Type: Book Review
• Acceptance Date: Nov 4, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Nov 4, 2020
• Publication Date: Nov 4, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: May 26, 2023
• Journal: Social & Legal Studies
• Print ISSN: 0964-6639
• Electronic ISSN: 1461-7390
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 30
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 096466392097178 - 096466392097178
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663920971781
• Keywords: sexual violence, gender violence, feminism, sex offenders
• Publisher URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0964663920971781