Pub Date : 2022-02-26DOI: 10.1080/08974454.2022.2040696
Sarah Samuels, Ardian Shajkovci
Abstract Far-right violent extremism is the most pressing form of domestic violent extremism (DVE) facing the United States. While there is a consensus that far-right violent extremism poses a genuine risk to the United States, the relevance of women within far-right violent extremism remains understated and under-researched. The misinformed perceptions about women and their propensities for violence must be acknowledged and rectified to ensure a proper analysis of the state of far-right violent extremism in the United States. The far-right social media platform Gab has been utilized to explore underlying conceptions about women in far-right extremism as well as fill the gap in the perceptions about women’s roles in extremism and violent extremism that are currently held by practitioners. A stronger commitment to the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda, a framework that reconceptualizes women within discourses about security, promises to rectify the widely held misconceptions about women’s involvement in far-right violent extremism. By reviewing the conceptual shortcomings of those tasked with protecting against far-right violent extremism, the larger goal of securing the United States and beyond can be realized.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-24DOI: 10.1080/08974454.2022.2040695
A. Güneş, Çağlar Ezikoğlu
Abstract Although the AKP government has made much legal and political progress on women’s rights, such as becoming the first government to ratify the Istanbul Convention, crimes against women in Turkey have dramatically risen in the last two decades. This is a notable step forward on women’s rights, in particular on violence against women. However, this step backwards for women’s rights with Turkey’s withdrawal from the Convention on 1 July 2021. This paper argues to what extent the shift from Europeanization to de-Europeanization and liberalism to conservatism in Turkey after 2011 directly affects its withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention. The first part of this paper analyses how the AKP government has taken many steps legally and politically on gender equality as part of Turkey’s Europeanization and EU accession process. The second part of this paper shows that, while many women’s rights organizations and society recognize that progress has been made, the AKP government’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention reveals Turkey’s transformation from liberalism to conservatism regarding women’s rights.
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{"title":"Women’s Biographies through Prison","authors":"H. King, Kate O’Brien, F. Measham","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv2bjgr7v.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2bjgr7v.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51745,"journal":{"name":"Women & Criminal Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80109909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Criminal Women in Prison Who Self-harm:","authors":"T. Walker","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv2bjgr7v.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2bjgr7v.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51745,"journal":{"name":"Women & Criminal Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90364403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘The World Split Open’:","authors":"H. King, Kate O’Brien, F. Measham","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv2bjgr7v.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2bjgr7v.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51745,"journal":{"name":"Women & Criminal Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76889495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}