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Overview"Since the turn of the twentieth century, human trafficking has animated public discourses, policy debates, and moral panics in the United States. Though some nuances of these conversations have shifted, the role of the criminal legal system (police officers, investigators, lawyers, and connected service providers) in anti-trafficking interventions has remained firmly in place. Policing Victimhood explores how frontline workers in direct contact with vulnerable, exploited, and trafficked persons-however those groups are defined at personal, organizational, or legal levels-defer to the tools of the carceral state and ideologies of punishment when navigating their clients' needs. In Policing Victimhood, Corinne Schwarz interviewed with service providers in the Midwestern US, a region that, though colloquially understood as ""flyover country,"" regularly positions itself as a leader in state-level anti-trafficking policies and collaborative networks. These frontline workers' perceptions and narratives are informed by their interpersonal, day-to-day encounters with exploited or trafficked persons. Their insights underscore how anti-trafficking policies are put into practice and influenced by specific ideologies and stereotypes. Extending the reach of street-level bureaucracy theory to anti-trafficking initiatives, Schwarz demonstrates how frontline workers are uniquely positioned to perpetuate or radically counter punitive anti-trafficking efforts. Taking a cue from anti-carceral feminist critiques and critical trafficking studies, Schwarz argues that ongoing anti-trafficking efforts in the US expand the punitive arm of the state without addressing the role of systemic oppression in perpetuating violence. The violence inherent to the carceral state-and required for its continued expansion-is the same violence that perpetuates the exploitation of human trafficking. In order to solve the ""problem"" of human trafficking, advocates, activists, and scholars must divest from systems that center punishment and radically reinvest their efforts in dismantling the structural violence that perpetuates social exclusion and vulnerability, what she calls the ""-isms"" and ""-phobias"" that harm some at the expense of others' empowerment. Policing Victimhood encourages readers to imagine a world without carceral violence in any of its forms." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Corinne SchwarzPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.050kg ISBN: 9781978833302ISBN 10: 197883330 Pages: 234 Publication Date: 15 September 2023 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: “Oh, Trafficking? That Happens Here?” Perceptions and Paradigms of Anti-trafficking Efforts and the Carceral State 1 Carceral Protectionism: Resource Constraints and Rescue Narratives 2 The Punishment Mindset: The Inevitability of Carcerality 3 Therapeutic Governance and the Regulation of the Post-trafficking Self 4 Limits to Justice: The Complications of the Carceral State 5 Beyond Carceral Logics: Shifting from the “Punishing” State to the “Helping” State Conclusion: Anti-trafficking Futures: Justice without Policing and Prisons Acknowledgments Appendix A: Research Methodologies Appendix B: Interviewee Pseudonyms Notes References IndexReviewsSchwarz weaves a wide range of disciplines and theoretical innovations together in making the case why an exploration of frontline work is so crucial to understanding the limits of current anti-trafficking efforts and the harms of carceral approaches. Her writing is clear and accessible; practitioners and policy-makers alike really ought to read this book. Author InformationCorinne Schwarz is an assistant professor of gender, women’s, and sexuality studies at Oklahoma State University. She received her PhD in women, gender, and sexuality studies from the University of Kansas in 2018. Her research uses socio-legal approaches to understand narratives of gender, sexuality, and violence within frontline work. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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