Rashmee Singh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rashmee Singh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rashmee |
| FAMILY NAME | Singh |
| SIGNATURE | SINGH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Caring labour and domestic violence shelter work in the Covid-19 pandemic
Caring labour has long been a key part of the labour required of domestic violence shelter workers. Under the weight of public health directives during the COVID-19 pandemic, the nature and consequences of this caring labour changed. This paper examines these shifts within the broader context of the enduring invisibility of caring labour and the depoliticization of anti-violence work, both of which began long before the COVID-19 pandemic and has …
Rescuing women from the brinks of whiteness: Carceral restoration in a human trafficking court
Research on gender-specific penal reform programs critique their failure to prioritize the socio-economic recovery of criminalized women. This paper draws on these insights to examine the Women’s Refuge Court (WRC), a human trafficking court for adult women criminalized for prostitution and drug offences in Ohio. Using ethnographic research, I illustrate the WRC’s rejection of bootstrapping and emphasis on material resourcing as a penal reform st…
Covid-19 and the Paradox of Visibility: Domestic Violence and Feminist Caring Labor in Canadian Shelters
Setting a Good Example for the Ladies’: Example Setting as a Technique of Penal Reform in Specialized Prostitution Court
This article identifies and examines example setting as a penal technique of reform in one specialized prostitution court in Illinois. Drawing on court observation, I show how informal court practices materialize into visual and verbal narratives designed to valorize defendants who are benefitting from treatment. In exploring their effects, I argue that these stories are not just celebratory rituals. Rather, they are deployed to generate defendan…
Seeing crime, feeling crime: Visual evidence, emotions, and the prosecution of domestic violence
Changes in prosecutorial strategies vis-a-vis domestic violence introduced new models of investigation that privilege images of victims. Drawing on case law, we argue these visual artefacts of victims’ injuries as well as their videotaped sworn statements describing their assaults constitute what Haggerty and Ericson call a ‘data double’, a virtual doppleganger who is meant to stand, often antagonistically in the stead of the flesh and blood vict…
Importing Feminisms: Racialized Migrants and Anti-Violence Activism
Within Western liberal democracies, narratives characterizing racialized migrants as threats to gender equality abound. As forms of knowledge about the “other,” these Orientalist assumptions resonate as common sense. In an attempt to denaturalize these characterizations, this discussion asks: what strategies for overcoming gender violence do racialized migrants import with them to the countries in which they settle? Drawing on interviews with ser…
Please Check the Appropriate Box”: Documents and the Governance of Domestic Violence
This analysis examines the effects of administrative templates on legal responses to domestic violence. The discussion focuses on a set of intake forms deployed by a team of grassroots workers who routinely attend Toronto's specialized domestic violence plea courts to enroll defendants into counseling programs. Although these documents are nothing more than mundane, administrative forms, they are crucial to generating the formations required to g…
When punishment and philanthropy mix: Voluntary organizations and the governance of the domestic violence offender
This article examines the administration of community based punishment in Toronto’s specialized domestic violence courts. Voluntary organizations play an integral role in the Ontario government’s strategy to manage domestic violence. Currently, an array of ‘mainstream’ and ‘ethno-specific’ community agencies operate as quasi-criminal justice organizations to rehabilitate and supervise court mandated offenders. Despite their categorization however…
Anne Logan, Feminism and Criminal Justice: A Historical Perspective
In Between the System and the Margins: Community Organizations, Mandatory Charging and Immigrant Victims of Abuse
The literature on mandatory charging and prosecution policies consistently finds that zero tolerance approaches to woman abuse often harm, rather than help, abused immigrant women. The unexpected removal of abusers triggers detrimental consequences if women are dependent on their partners for immigration status, financial assistance and linguistic support. The violence that immigrant women experience at the hands of the police and courts has led …
Seeing crime, feeling crime: Visual evidence, emotions, and the prosecution of domestic violence
Changes in prosecutorial strategies vis-a-vis domestic violence introduced new models of investigation that privilege images of victims. Drawing on case law, we argue these visual artefacts of victims’ injuries as well as their videotaped sworn statements describing their assaults constitute what Haggerty and Ericson call a ‘data double’, a virtual doppleganger who is meant to stand, often antagonistically in the stead of the flesh and blood vict…
Importing Feminisms: Racialized Migrants and Anti-Violence Activism
Within Western liberal democracies, narratives characterizing racialized migrants as threats to gender equality abound. As forms of knowledge about the “other,” these Orientalist assumptions resonate as common sense. In an attempt to denaturalize these characterizations, this discussion asks: what strategies for overcoming gender violence do racialized migrants import with them to the countries in which they settle? Drawing on interviews with ser…
Setting a Good Example for the Ladies’: Example Setting as a Technique of Penal Reform in Specialized Prostitution Court
This article identifies and examines example setting as a penal technique of reform in one specialized prostitution court in Illinois. Drawing on court observation, I show how informal court practices materialize into visual and verbal narratives designed to valorize defendants who are benefitting from treatment. In exploring their effects, I argue that these stories are not just celebratory rituals. Rather, they are deployed to generate defendan…
Please Check the Appropriate Box”: Documents and the Governance of Domestic Violence
This analysis examines the effects of administrative templates on legal responses to domestic violence. The discussion focuses on a set of intake forms deployed by a team of grassroots workers who routinely attend Toronto's specialized domestic violence plea courts to enroll defendants into counseling programs. Although these documents are nothing more than mundane, administrative forms, they are crucial to generating the formations required to g…
When punishment and philanthropy mix: Voluntary organizations and the governance of the domestic violence offender
This article examines the administration of community based punishment in Toronto’s specialized domestic violence courts. Voluntary organizations play an integral role in the Ontario government’s strategy to manage domestic violence. Currently, an array of ‘mainstream’ and ‘ethno-specific’ community agencies operate as quasi-criminal justice organizations to rehabilitate and supervise court mandated offenders. Despite their categorization however…
Covid-19 and the Paradox of Visibility: Domestic Violence and Feminist Caring Labor in Canadian Shelters
In Between the System and the Margins: Community Organizations, Mandatory Charging and Immigrant Victims of Abuse
The literature on mandatory charging and prosecution policies consistently finds that zero tolerance approaches to woman abuse often harm, rather than help, abused immigrant women. The unexpected removal of abusers triggers detrimental consequences if women are dependent on their partners for immigration status, financial assistance and linguistic support. The violence that immigrant women experience at the hands of the police and courts has led …
In Between the System and the Margins: Community Organizations, Mandatory Charging and Immigrant Victims of Abuse
The literature on mandatory charging and prosecution policies consistently finds that zero tolerance approaches to woman abuse often harm, rather than help, abused immigrant women. The unexpected removal of abusers triggers detrimental consequences if women are dependent on their partners for immigration status, financial assistance and linguistic support. The violence that immigrant women experience at the hands of the police and courts has led …
Anne Logan, Feminism and Criminal Justice: A Historical Perspective
When punishment and philanthropy mix: Voluntary organizations and the governance of the domestic violence offender
This article examines the administration of community based punishment in Toronto’s specialized domestic violence courts. Voluntary organizations play an integral role in the Ontario government’s strategy to manage domestic violence. Currently, an array of ‘mainstream’ and ‘ethno-specific’ community agencies operate as quasi-criminal justice organizations to rehabilitate and supervise court mandated offenders. Despite their categorization however…
Importing Feminisms: Racialized Migrants and Anti-Violence Activism
Within Western liberal democracies, narratives characterizing racialized migrants as threats to gender equality abound. As forms of knowledge about the “other,” these Orientalist assumptions resonate as common sense. In an attempt to denaturalize these characterizations, this discussion asks: what strategies for overcoming gender violence do racialized migrants import with them to the countries in which they settle? Drawing on interviews with ser…
Please Check the Appropriate Box”: Documents and the Governance of Domestic Violence
This analysis examines the effects of administrative templates on legal responses to domestic violence. The discussion focuses on a set of intake forms deployed by a team of grassroots workers who routinely attend Toronto's specialized domestic violence plea courts to enroll defendants into counseling programs. Although these documents are nothing more than mundane, administrative forms, they are crucial to generating the formations required to g…
Seeing crime, feeling crime: Visual evidence, emotions, and the prosecution of domestic violence
Changes in prosecutorial strategies vis-a-vis domestic violence introduced new models of investigation that privilege images of victims. Drawing on case law, we argue these visual artefacts of victims’ injuries as well as their videotaped sworn statements describing their assaults constitute what Haggerty and Ericson call a ‘data double’, a virtual doppleganger who is meant to stand, often antagonistically in the stead of the flesh and blood vict…
Setting a Good Example for the Ladies’: Example Setting as a Technique of Penal Reform in Specialized Prostitution Court
This article identifies and examines example setting as a penal technique of reform in one specialized prostitution court in Illinois. Drawing on court observation, I show how informal court practices materialize into visual and verbal narratives designed to valorize defendants who are benefitting from treatment. In exploring their effects, I argue that these stories are not just celebratory rituals. Rather, they are deployed to generate defendan…
Covid-19 and the Paradox of Visibility: Domestic Violence and Feminist Caring Labor in Canadian Shelters
Rescuing women from the brinks of whiteness: Carceral restoration in a human trafficking court
Research on gender-specific penal reform programs critique their failure to prioritize the socio-economic recovery of criminalized women. This paper draws on these insights to examine the Women’s Refuge Court (WRC), a human trafficking court for adult women criminalized for prostitution and drug offences in Ohio. Using ethnographic research, I illustrate the WRC’s rejection of bootstrapping and emphasis on material resourcing as a penal reform st…
Caring labour and domestic violence shelter work in the Covid-19 pandemic
Caring labour has long been a key part of the labour required of domestic violence shelter workers. Under the weight of public health directives during the COVID-19 pandemic, the nature and consequences of this caring labour changed. This paper examines these shifts within the broader context of the enduring invisibility of caring labour and the depoliticization of anti-violence work, both of which began long before the COVID-19 pandemic and has …
Criminology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (6 works) · Domestic violence (5 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Poison control (4 works) · Suicide prevention (4 works)