Criminalizing 'female genital mutilation': Where is the harm?
The 'global prohibition regime' against 'female genital mutilation' (FGM) remains understudied within criminology. Zemiology, with its raison d'être to locate the source and nature of harm, opens up analytical potential. Bringing zemiology together with decolonial feminist approaches for the first t...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Criminology Vol. 66; no. 4; pp. 821 - 843 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=194612737&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 194612737 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00070955 BJC jtl: British Journal of Criminology issn: 00070955 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul2026 vid: 66 iid: 4 pid: 622 pub: Oxford University Press / USA artinfo: ui: 194612737 10.1093/bjc/azag017 ppf: 821 ppct: 22 formats: tig: atl: Criminalizing 'female genital mutilation': Where is the harm? aug: au: Pantazis, Christina Carver, Natasha Karlsen, Saffron Mogilnicka, Magda affil: School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TZ, United Kingdom Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TZ, United Kingdom Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom su: England Bristol (England) Female genital mutilation Racialization Suffering Women's rights Crime Violence against women Criminal justice policy Criminology sug: subj: Female genital mutilation Racialization Suffering Women's rights Crime Violence against women Criminal justice policy Criminology England Bristol (England) keyword: copyrightHolder:Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (formerly ISTD) copyrightYear:2026 decolonial female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/FGC) inLanguage:en institutional racism misrecognition publisher:Oxford University Press sameAs:https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azag017 violence against women and girls (VAWG) zemiology copyrightHolder:Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (formerly ISTD) copyrightYear:2026 decolonial female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/FGC) inLanguage:en institutional racism misrecognition publisher:Oxford University Press sameAs:https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azag017 violence against women and girls (VAWG) zemiology ab: The 'global prohibition regime' against 'female genital mutilation' (FGM) remains understudied within criminology. Zemiology, with its raison d'être to locate the source and nature of harm, opens up analytical potential. Bringing zemiology together with decolonial feminist approaches for the first time, we analyse data from focus group interviews with people of Somali heritage living in Bristol, England, to consider the unacknowledged harms created by anti-FGM legal and policy developments in the UK context. We argue that the racialized criminalization of 'FGM' gives rise to considerable harm: in particular, harms of misrecognition, autonomy and psychological well-being. We conclude by considering the wider relevance of our findings to debates on state responses to violence against women and girls. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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