Aya Gruber
Biographic Data
| ID | 3606388 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aya Gruber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aya |
| FAMILY NAME | Gruber |
| SIGNATURE | GRUBER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6913-2023 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Colonial carceral feminism
This chapter discusses carceral feminism, which refers to the attempt to secure women’s protection through intensified criminal justice interventions including greater reliance on policing, criminalization, and incarceration. Carceral feminism does not denote a discrete group of feminists but the fact that criminalization is a stubbornly persistent feature of feminist agendas. I argue that the penal system is a colonial institution born of Indige…
The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women's Liberation in Mass Incarceration
"Many feminists grapple with the problem of hyper-incarceration in the United States, and yet commentators on gender crime continue to assert that criminal law is not tough enough. This punitive impulse, prominent legal scholar Aya Gruber argues, is dangerous and counterproductive. In their quest to secure women's protection from domestic violence and rape, American feminists have become soldiers in the war on crime by emphasizing white female vi…
Zero-Tolerance Comes to International Law
It is difficult to engage from a theoretical perspective an advocacy piece that largely reads like a brief in favor of particular claim of law, namely, that a state's failure to (vigorously) criminalize marital rape violates international human rights law. In a brief, the litigant pulls together various sources to prove the legal claim is correct. Opponents typically respond by cobbling together their own sources to undermine that claim. In their…
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Zero-Tolerance Comes to International Law
It is difficult to engage from a theoretical perspective an advocacy piece that largely reads like a brief in favor of particular claim of law, namely, that a state's failure to (vigorously) criminalize marital rape violates international human rights law. In a brief, the litigant pulls together various sources to prove the legal claim is correct. Opponents typically respond by cobbling together their own sources to undermine that claim. In their…
The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women's Liberation in Mass Incarceration
"Many feminists grapple with the problem of hyper-incarceration in the United States, and yet commentators on gender crime continue to assert that criminal law is not tough enough. This punitive impulse, prominent legal scholar Aya Gruber argues, is dangerous and counterproductive. In their quest to secure women's protection from domestic violence and rape, American feminists have become soldiers in the war on crime by emphasizing white female vi…
Colonial carceral feminism
This chapter discusses carceral feminism, which refers to the attempt to secure women’s protection through intensified criminal justice interventions including greater reliance on policing, criminalization, and incarceration. Carceral feminism does not denote a discrete group of feminists but the fact that criminalization is a stubbornly persistent feature of feminist agendas. I argue that the penal system is a colonial institution born of Indige…
Sociology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Administration of Criminal justice (1 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Colonialism (1 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (1 works)