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Gendered Movement: Negotiating Youth,Sex and Harm in the US Carceral State
Author(s) -
Meiners Erica R.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/chso.12198
Subject(s) - grassroots , criminology , harm , state (computer science) , negotiation , human sexuality , criminal justice , politics , sex work , queer , political science , sex offender , sociology , gender studies , law , medicine , family medicine , algorithm , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , computer science
Exempt from the current bipartisan reassessment of the US carceral state are people with convictions for sex offenses. While movements against public registries for sex offenders are scant, a grassroots movement is underway. This article offers a preliminary analysis of the complex consequence of women's political work to extract their sons from the US carceral state. This gendered advocacy is mapped against shifts in the racialised US criminal justice system, where the fluid category of child/juvenile is often unavailable to youth of colour and/or queer youth, and criminalisation is offered to regulate sexuality, consent, age and potential harm.