Journal article
Abolition Feminist Storytelling as Methodology: Lessons Within the Stories We (Re)Tell About Punishment and Violence
Feminist criminology
04/22/2026
DOI: 10.1177/15570851261445970
Abstract
This paper engages abolition feminist storytelling as a methodology for feminist criminologists to identify, reflect on, grapple with, and ultimately confront carceral logics in the stories we (re)tell about violence and punishment. Drawing on over a decade’s worth of research, advocacy, and community organizing, we identify three carceral tensions that emerged within our own storytelling: the victim-offender binary, researcher complicity, and a survivor standpoint. Building on prior black feminist scholarship, we then illustrate how an abolition feminist approach to storytelling allows us to confront these tensions through relationality, an ethic of love, accountability, vulnerability, and commitment to justice.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Abolition Feminist Storytelling as Methodology: Lessons Within the Stories We (Re)Tell About Punishment and Violence
- Creators
- Amber Joy Powell - University of IowaFaith M. Deckard - University of California, Los AngelesShannon Malone Gonzalez - University of North Carolina at Chapel HillBrittany Pearl Battle - Wake Forest University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Feminist criminology
- DOI
- 10.1177/15570851261445970
- ISSN
- 1557-0851
- eISSN
- 1557-086X
- Publisher
- Sage
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 04/22/2026
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9985157525402771
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