Professor Aya Gruber draws on critical race feminism, media analysis, and her own experience as a public defender to address how policing is inherently flawed in responding to intimate partner violence. She will share insights from her new book, The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration , as she discusses the role of feminist debates in the politics of mass incarceration and a critical vision regarding policing in our intersectional age.

Professor Caroline Bettinger-López will discuss international human rights perspectives on gender-based violence and policing and how they overlay with domestic approaches, both before and during COVID-19 and concerning the Black Lives Matter movement. She will draw on her contribution to the forthcoming book, Policing, Communication, and Safety .

Professor Jane Stoever , Director of the Initiative to End Family Violence, will introduce the fall speaker series. The discussion on policing intimate partner violence will be moderated by Professor Leigh Goodmark , author of A Troubled Marriage: Domestic Violence and the Legal System and Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence .

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PDT

Webinar Event