The Unexpected Role of Feminism in Mass Incarceration

<p><a href='https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y-SZrkOFvoA/Xw_dQuajChI/AAAAAAAAJLc/FzXQ0xJkhzIQjV-f0x_U6IN8gslVWs5FQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/gruberhomepage.jpg'></a>We regularly go through paroxysms of demanding law and order. It's a form of political rhetoric that while it has roots all the way back in the 16th century, is with us once again today.</p> <p>In our contemporary history we watched Nixon in 1968, New York in the 70s and then were was 1994. A time when the law and order obsession seemed to reach some kind of peak</p> <p>Rudy Giuliani had become Mayor of New York, the Simpson case shined an arc-light on domestic violence, California passed “three strikes,” and Congress passed the Violence Against Women Act.</p> <p>It was a kind of perfect storm of both enforcing law, protecting women, and injecting steroids into the business of mass incarceration.</p> <p>How this ultimately worked out for women, and the broad impact of these efforts on the criminal justice system is a subject that University of Colorado law professor Aya Gruber tackles in her new book <a href='https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520304519/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0520304519&linkCode=as2&tag=jeffschechtma-20&linkId=76b9b6f8167991a81edb127230f352e0'>The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women's Liberation in Mass Incarceration</a>.</p> <p>My conversation with Aya Gruber:</p>