Kirsty Lennox I don’t know you, random man: The role of safety-work during female encounters with the police.
Worldwide, governing systemic structures are being questioned, and police are being called to account for their actions both at an institutional and individual level. During a time of what some have deemed a ‘legitimacy crisis’, the well-established concept of procedural justice has been found to help increase legitimacy, a crucial underpinning of the Peelian Principle of policing by consent (Cook, 2015; Sunshine & Tyler, 2003; Tyler, 1990). However, very little research has examined female experiences of procedural justice during police contact. To ascertain whether procedural justice is occurring during police contact with women, it is critical to understand what women’s encounters with the police look like. Reflecting on 40 semi-structured interviews with women aged between 16-39 throughout Aotearoa, this study explores whether the gendered safety strategies that women are conditioned to employ, impact their encounters with the police as unknown men.
Kirsten Gibson ‘Women and their experiences after release from prison’: The State as an alibi
In this paper, I share findings from my recently published doctoral research, which explored women’s post-prison experiences in Aotearoa. The extant research on women’s experiences in prison is limited and even more so for women’s post-prison experiences. Discourses about post-prison that overly focus on desistance and pathologise women’s behaviour tend to minimise the impact that structural conditions play in women’s lives. Examining women’s experiences, while acknowledging the structural constraints on their lives, can provide a deeper and more meaningful understanding of the structural barriers they encounter and navigate.
The current context of increased punitive policies and decreased social support across Aotearoa demonstrates how the State “punishes the poor”. The State enacts punishment of the poor through a withdrawal of social support, and increased monitoring and criminalisation. This punishment impacts distinct — such as Māori, poor, and previously victimised — groups of women disproportionately. I detail women’s descriptions of their experiences of gender responsive programmes, and post-prison services. Challenging some dominant notions in post-prison literature, I share how the women described their ideas of post-prison ‘success’. I explore how the State utilises gender responsivity programmes and frameworks, and desistance discourses to distract and shift the responsibility of addressing structural harm against criminalised women.
Bryndl Hohmann-Marriott Reproductive justice and data justice: An interconnected relational approach
Reproductive justice and data justice can be interconnected and expanded to encompass a relational approach. I discuss a model of relational reproductive data justice, using the example of period-tracking apps. These types of reproductive data can be understood as relational, offering a point of connection between models of reproductive justice and data justice. The expanded model considers more-than-human assemblages, harms and benefits, and data imaginaries.
