Read Sarah Lustbader's New Yorker article, The Feminist Law Professor Who Wants To Stop Arresting People For Domestic Violence, here.

Leigh Goodmark

Leigh Goodmark has been questioning the criminal legal system's response to gender-based violence for more than twenty years.  In her books, articles, and media appearances Professor Goodmark has argued that the criminal legal system fails to decrease or deter gender-based violence and punishes the victims of that violence.  Professor Goodmark's critique of the criminal legal system is grounded in her twenty-five years of representing people abused by their partners and incarcerated survivors of violence abused by the state.

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