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Erica R. Meiners

Erica R. Meiners is a Professor of Education and Women’s and Gender Studies at Northeastern Illinois University and the author of several books, most recently For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State.

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Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice

Violence Cannot Remedy Violence

Instead of deterring sexual violence, criminalization has empowered policing and punishment. To prevent both sexual and state-inflicted abuse, we must embrace restorative justice.

Judith Levine, Erica R. Meiners

       

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