Professor Donna Coker published an essay titled “Roll Back “Prison Nation” in a collection of solicited on-line essays in the CUNY Law Review. The essays reflect on the 2014 20th anniversary of the federal Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Relying on empirical findings of the harms to communities of hyper-incarceration as well as the theoretical work of Beth Richie and Dorothy Roberts, Coker argues that police practices in low-income communities of color may actually increase the rates of domestic violence. She argues that anti-domestic violence activists should therefore be at the forefront of the movement against mass incarceration. Professor Coker's scholarship focuses on criminal law, gender and inequality. She is a nationally recognized expert in domestic violence law and policy. Her research concerns three major areas: the connection between economic vulnerability and domestic violence; restorative justice and other alternative criminal justice interventions; and gender and criminal law doctrine.
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