284 research outputs found
Challenging perspectives on street-based sex work edited by Katie Hail-Jares, Corey S. Shdaimah, and Chrysanthi S. Leon.
No full textChallenging Perspectives on Street-Based Sex Work, edited by Katie Hail-Jares, Corey S. Shdaimah, and Chrysanthi S. Leon. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2017. 313 pp. $34.95 paper. ISBN: 97814399 14540
Corey S. Shdaimah, Chrysanthi S. Leon, and Shelly A. Wiechelt (2023) The Compassionate Court? Support, Surveillance, and Survival in Prostitution Diversion Programs. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press
No full textSean Eickhoff reviews The Compassionate Court? Support, Surveillance, and Survival in Prostitution Diversion Programs by Corey S. Shdaimah, Chrysanthi S. Leon, and Shelly A. Wiech
Review of \u3cem\u3eNegotiating Justice: Progressive Lawyering, Low Income Clients, and the Quest for Social Change.\u3c/em\u3e Corey S. Shdaimah. Reviewed by Lolita Buckner Inniss.
No full textBook review of Corey S. Shdaimah, Negotiating Justice: Progressive Lawyering, Low Income Clients, and the Quest for Social Change. New York University Press, 2009. $45.00 hardcover
In our hands ::the struggle for U.S. child care policy /
No full text"Working mothers are common in the United States. In over half of all two-parent families, both parents work, and women's paychecks on average make up 35 percent of their families' incomes. Most of these families yearn for available and affordable child care--but although most developed countries offer state-funded child care, it remains scarce in the United States. And even in prosperous times, child care is rarely a priority for U.S. policy makers.In In Our Hands: The Struggle for U.S. Child Care Policy, Elizabeth Palley and Corey S. Shdaimah explore the reasons behind the relative paucity of U.S. child care and child care support. Why, they ask, are policy makers unable to convert widespread need into a feasible political agenda? They examine the history of child care advocacy and legislation in the United States, from the Child Care Development Act of the 1970s that was vetoed by Nixon through the Obama administration's Child Care Development Block Grant. The book includes data from interviews with 23 prominent child care and early education advocates and researchers who have spent their careers seeking expansion of child care policy and funding and an examination of the legislative debates around key child care bills of the last half-century. Palley and Shdaimah analyze the special interest and niche groups that have formed around existing policy, arguing that such groups limit the possibility for debate around U.S. child care policy. Ultimately, they conclude, we do not need to make minor changes to our existing policies. We need a revolution"-
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In our hands ::the struggle for U.S. child care policy /
No full text"Working mothers are common in the United States. In over half of all two-parent families, both parents work, and women's paychecks on average make up 35 percent of their families' incomes. Most of these families yearn for available and affordable child care--but although most developed countries offer state-funded child care, it remains scarce in the United States. And even in prosperous times, child care is rarely a priority for U.S. policy makers.In In Our Hands: The Struggle for U.S. Child Care Policy, Elizabeth Palley and Corey S. Shdaimah explore the reasons behind the relative paucity of U.S. child care and child care support. Why, they ask, are policy makers unable to convert widespread need into a feasible political agenda? They examine the history of child care advocacy and legislation in the United States, from the Child Care Development Act of the 1970s that was vetoed by Nixon through the Obama administration's Child Care Development Block Grant. The book includes data from interviews with 23 prominent child care and early education advocates and researchers who have spent their careers seeking expansion of child care policy and funding and an examination of the legislative debates around key child care bills of the last half-century. Palley and Shdaimah analyze the special interest and niche groups that have formed around existing policy, arguing that such groups limit the possibility for debate around U.S. child care policy. Ultimately, they conclude, we do not need to make minor changes to our existing policies. We need a revolution"-
Antiprostitution Agendas and the Creation of U.S. Antitrafficking Policy
No full textIn recent decades, human trafficking discourse has become the locus for debates about prostitution. Just as traditional prostitution debates have been characterised by a deep divide between abolitionist advocates and those who support a sex work perspective, these competing viewpoints also dominate trafficking discourse. In particular, assumptions about the moral harms associated with sex work have pervaded policy making processes, embedding moral judgements within legislation, and condemning not just forced prostitution, but all prostitution. This paper challenges some of the moral assumptions made in the problematization of prostitution through an examination of the influence of anti-prostitution stakeholders in the creation of anti-trafficking policy in the United States of America. The rejection of a distinction between forced and voluntary prostitution, and the positioning of women in sex work as compulsorily harmed, rely on moral judgements about ‘good’ and ‘bad’ sex, femininity, and consent that underpin anti-prostitution perspectives and contribute to anti-trafficking approaches. We seek to challenge these judgements, arguing that trafficking policy-making has been used as a tool to further an anti-prostitution agenda, fuelled by moral assumptions about the harms of prostitution, and perpetuated through abolitionist tactics to silence dissent
People With Secrets: Contesting, Constructing, and Resisting Women’s Claims About Sexualized Victimization
No full textWhat do sexual assault victims and women charged with prostitution have in common? Both are processed through a criminal justice system where legal actors assess their claims of victimization and either provide or deny resources and recognition in response to those claims. Ideal victim theory posits that not all victims’ claims are treated equally due to static factors such as personal characteristics or case facts. Professor Corrigan and Professor Shdaimah present the Arena of Intelligibility, an original analytical tool developed from their empirical data, to more effectively explain case outcomes for women affected by sexual crimes.
The Arena explains criminal case outcomes as the result of dynamic processes and relationships between and among criminal justice personnel and would-be victims. Such outcomes are not solely the result of sociodemographic factors, but also reflect personal and institutional beliefs, attitudes, and priorities. After describing the Arena, the authors demonstrate how intelligibility is constructed by analyzing data from their studies in three domains: women’s responses to questioning, demonstrations of compliance, and representations of trauma. Graphic illustrations “map” women in each domain to demonstrate their movement toward (or away from) resources and recognition as their cases progress
Masks Against Panopticism: Enabling and Contesting Social Change Through Anonymous Engagement
No full textThis chapter considers masks as enablers or disablers of social activism. Activists have increasingly used masks to shield themselves from the surveillance state in which law enforcement and national security agencies systematise the use of biometric and other identification tools. Social movements use masks as one response to that panopticism. Masks are also a potential means to construct a collective movement identity rather than merely concealing individual identities. Masks may signal that ‘we are together’, committed, and therefore strong rather than merely bystanders. Masks can be used for anonymisation and collective identity by both ‘progressive’ and ‘regressive’ movements, including people seeking regime change on a peaceful basis and those that engage in violence. Anonymisation also means that masks can be used by provocateurs to discredit a protest or to gain intelligence from within a social movement. Finally, masking may be a manifestation of privilege, in which a riot such as the 2021 attack on the US Capitol is understood as carnival or in which law enforcement personnel opposing civil society activism express their impunity from accountability
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