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Keynote: How I Became A Family Policing Abolitionist, Dorothy E. Roberts
Keynote: How I Became A Family Policing Abolitionist, Dorothy E. Roberts
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This piece is a written version of Professor Dorothy Roberts' keynote speech at the Columbia Journal of Race and Law's 11th annual symposium, titled Strengthened Bonds: Abolishing the Child Welfare System and Re-Envisioning Child Well-Being.
Prison, Foster Care, And The Systemic Punishment Of Black Mothers, Dorothy E. Roberts
Prison, Foster Care, And The Systemic Punishment Of Black Mothers, Dorothy E. Roberts
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This article is part of a UCLA Law Review symposium, “Overpoliced and Underprotected: Women, Race, and Criminalization.” It analyzes how the U.S. prison and foster care systems work together to punish black mothers in a way that helps to preserve race, gender, and class inequalities in a neoliberal age. The intersection of these systems is only one example of many forms of overpolicing that overlap and converge in the lives of poor women of color. I examine the statistical overlap between the prison and foster care populations, the simultaneous explosion of both systems in recent decades, the injuries that each …