Feminist Approaches to Criminal Law

TY - CHAP

T1 - Feminist Approaches to Criminal Law

AU - Kotiswaran, Prabha

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - This chapter examines feminist approaches to criminal law, with special emphasis on the considerable success of feminist projects in domestic, international, and transnational criminal law. The chapter begins by sketching the extensive points of contact between feminists and the criminal law at the domestic level particularly in relation to rape, domestic violence, and battered woman syndrome. It then turns to feminist interventions in international criminal law to address war-time rape as well as in transnational criminal law, particularly on human trafficking. Assessing feminist successes in criminal law in terms of governance feminism, the chapter ends with thoughts for how feminists might further their critique of criminal law rather than merely expand their project in criminal law.

AB - This chapter examines feminist approaches to criminal law, with special emphasis on the considerable success of feminist projects in domestic, international, and transnational criminal law. The chapter begins by sketching the extensive points of contact between feminists and the criminal law at the domestic level particularly in relation to rape, domestic violence, and battered woman syndrome. It then turns to feminist interventions in international criminal law to address war-time rape as well as in transnational criminal law, particularly on human trafficking. Assessing feminist successes in criminal law in terms of governance feminism, the chapter ends with thoughts for how feminists might further their critique of criminal law rather than merely expand their project in criminal law.

U2 - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199673599.013.0004

DO - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199673599.013.0004

M3 - Chapter

T3 - Oxford Handbooks in Law

BT - The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law

A2 - Dubber, Markus

A2 - Hoernle, Tatjana

PB - Oxford University Press

ER -