Erica R. Meiners

Erica R. Meiners is Professor of Education and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern Illinois University. She is the author For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State.

Why Policing and Prisons Can’t End Gender Violence

The authors of Abolition. Feminism. Now. discuss why racialized state violence and gender-based violence have to be fought together.

  • Angela Y. Davis
  • Gina Dent
  • Erica R. Meiners
  • Beth E. Richie
  • nia t. evans

Violence Cannot Remedy Violence

Instead of deterring sexual violence, criminalization has empowered policing and punishment.

  • Judith Levine
  • Erica R. Meiners
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