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Date: Thursday, March 3, 2022
Time: 3:00-4:30PM PST
Location: Online/Zoom (registration required)
Survivors of domestic and sexual violence who defend themselves are systemically targeted for punishment by the legal system. Join us for the launch of Defending Self-Defense, a community-based, survivor-centered research report that identifies key patterns in the criminalization of self-defense and recommendations to transform the conditions of criminalized survival.
In honor of Tewkunzi Green.
This report is produced by Survived & Punished, Project Nia, and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women.
Survived and Punished (S&P) is a national organization that advocates for the decriminalization of survivors of domestic and sexual violence through community organizing, policy advocacy, and engaged research. S&P provides publications and organizing tools that help highlight the intersections of prisons and gender violence, as well as mobilize grassroots support for criminalized survivors. S&P also includes the following three local/regional affiliates: Love & Protect in Chicago, S&P New York, and S&P California. CSW’s Thinking Gender 2020 conference featured an art exhibit showcasing S&P’s work and accomplishments, as well as a keynote address by Mariame Kaba, a co-founder of Survived & Punished. Kaba is also the founder and director of Project Nia, a grassroots organization that fights to end youth incarceration.
UCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider. Up to 1 hour of general MCLE credit will be available (see Further Readings below). If you attended the event, please fill out this form to receive credit.
Event participants:
Survived & Punished
- Mariame Kaba (respondent)
Defending Self-Defense Research Team
- Alisa Bierria
- Colby Lenz
- Sydney Moon
Defending Self-Defense Survivor Advisory Council
- Liyah Birru
- Robbie Hall
- Wendy Howard
- Roshawn Knight
- Ky Peterson
- Anastazia Schmid
Further Readings:
- Franks, Mary Anne. 2014. “Real Men Advance, Real Women Retreat: Stand Your Ground, Battered Women’s Syndrome, and Violence as Male Privilege.” University of Miami Law Review 68 (4): 1099–1128. https://repository.law.miami.edu/umlr/vol68/iss4/7/
- Aiken, Jane H., Sarah M. Buel, Sonal Bhatia, Mark Cooke, Wilhemina Hardy, Tiffany Haigler, Tina Ikpa, and Selena Nelson. 2007. “Resolution 102A: Domestic Violence Victims and Incarceration, Report.” Criminal Justice Committee, American Bar Association. https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/directories/policy/2007_my_102a.authcheckdam.pdf
Cosponsored by:
- Criminal Justice Program at UCLA School of Law
- Critical Race Studies Program at UCLA School of Law
- Williams Institute
- Department of Gender Studies
