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CRITICAL RESISTANCE - INCITE! STATEMENTCRITICAL RESISTANCE - INCITE! STATEMENT ONGENDER VIOLENCE & THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, 2001We call on social justice movements to develop strategies and analysis that address both state and interpersonalviolence, particularly violence against women. Currently, activists/movements that address state violence (such asanti-prison, anti-police brutality groups) often work in isolation from activists/movements that address domestic andsexual violence. The result is that women of color, who suffer disproportionately from both state and interpersonalviolence, have become marginalized within these movements. It is critical that we develop responses to gender violencethat do not depend on a sexist, racist, classist, and homophobic criminal justice system. It is also important that wedevelop strategies that challenge the criminal justice system and that also provide safety for survivors of sexual anddomestic violence. To live violence-free lives, we must develop holistic strategies for addressing violence that speak tothe intersection of all forms of oppression.The anti-violence movement has been critically important in breaking the silence around violence against womenand providing much-needed services to survivors. However, the mainstream anti-violence movement hasincreasingly relied on the criminal justice system as the front-line approach toward ending violence against womenof color. It is important to assess the impact of this strategy.1) Law enforcement approaches to violence against women may deter some acts of violence in the short term.However, as an overall strategy for ending violence, criminalization has not worked. In fact, the overall impact ofmandatory arrest laws for domestic violence have led to decreases in the number of battered women who kill theirpartners in self-defense, but they have not led to a decrease in the number of batterers who kill their partners. 1 Thus,the law protects batterers more than it protects survivors.2) The criminalization approach has also brought many women into conflict with the law, particularly women ofcolor, poor women, lesbians, sex workers, immigrant women, women with disabilities, and other marginalized women.For instance, under mandatory arrest laws, there have been numerous incidents where police officers called to domesticincidents have arrested the woman who is being battered. 2 Many undocumented women have reported cases of sexualand domestic violence, only to find themselves deported. 3 A tough law-and-order agenda also leads to long punitivesentences for women convicted of killing their batterers. 4 Finally, when public funding is channeled into policing andprisons, budget cuts for social programs, including women’s shelters, welfare, and public housing are the inevitable sideeffect. 5 These cutbacks leave women less able to escape violent relationships.3) Prisons don’t work. Despite an exponential increase in the number of men in prisons, women are not any safer, andthe rates of sexual assault and domestic violence have not decreased. 6 In calling for greater police responses to andharsher sentences for perpetrators of gender violence, the anti-violence movement has fueled the proliferation of prisonswhich now lock up more people per capita in the U.S. than any other country. 7 During the past fifteen years, thenumbers of women, especially women of color in prison has skyrocketed. 8 Prisons also inflict violence on the growingnumbers of women behind bars. Slashing, suicide, the proliferation of HIV, strip searches, medical neglect, and rape ofprisoners has largely been ignored by anti-violence activists. 9 The criminal justice system, an institution of violence,domination, and control, has increased the level of violence in society.4) The reliance on state funding to support anti-violence programs has increased the professionalization of theanti-violence movement and alienated it from its community-organizing, social justice roots. 10 Such reliance hasisolated the anti-violence movement from other social justice movements that seek to eradicate state violence, such thatit acts in conflict rather than in collaboration with these movements.Please visit www.incite-national.org for more info! P. 107
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