Intersektionalität. Ein neues Paradigma zur Erfassung sozialer Ungleichheit im Strafrecht?

Althoff, Martina

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“…Embedding analysis of women's crime now in socioeconomic conditions, a new understanding of their criminality emerged. Although the paradigm of "intersectionality" had not yet entered Criminology in the West German context, theories on women's crime accounted for the perceived entanglement of class-based and gender-related life conditions but, simultaneously, left other social relations of inequality such as race or age unaddressed (Althoff, 2010). Pointing to the fact that women commit different offenses to men, namely primarily nonviolent "petty" crimes, women's lawbreaking came to be explained differently to men's.…”

Section: New Knowledge On Women's Crime: Reimagining Women As Victimsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Just Prison? Women’s Prison Reform and the Figure of the “Offender-as-Victim” in Germany

Faust,

Nagel

2024

SSJ

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During the 1990s, the Berlin women’s prison was reformed to do justice to female inmates. This redesigning of space and programs was intended to meet women-specific conditions and needs. The present paper engages with this prison reform as transformation in the name of gender justice. Based on interviews with prison reformers, criminologists, and policymakers, as well as on the analysis of historical documents, we illuminate how a specific figure of the “criminalized woman” helps to translate the abstract notion of social justice into situated practice. From the 1970s onward, a new knowledge of women’s crime would emerge: it constituted female offenders as victims of patriarchal oppression and victimization, allowing the prison system to be criticized as androcentric and discriminatory against women. We argue that subsequent reform pursued gender justice in the form of difference-based, gender-responsive programs and spaces targeting individual inmates’ character and mindset. Thereby, the reformers’ initial critique of social justice would be unintentionally depoliticized and so gender, economic, and political inequalities remained unaddressed. Our purpose is hence twofold: first, to review the recent history of women’s incarceration in Germany, and second, to add a social justice focus to the international criminological debate on gender, prison, and reform.

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Section: New Knowledge On Women's Crime: Reimagining Women As Victimsmentioning

confidence: 99%