Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity

A sobering and original exposé of the law’s ramped up attacks on the most vulnerable among us, and what to do about it, by the former federal prosecutor and award-winning co-founder of the Indiana Innocence ProjectPink Crime is a revealing and deeply researched examination of the strategic use of criminal law by today’s right-wing movement to limit the bodily autonomy of women and queer people.This powerful book examines the way the criminal justice system increasingly targets the most vulnerable populations and the alarming rate of wrongful convictions, uncovering how bias, stigma, and unreliable evidence have led to prosecution where no crime occurred. Valena Beety, the recipient of an Independent Publisher Book Award for Women’s Issues, whose scholarship was recently cited by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, paints a disturbing picture of how the deaths of loved ones-whether a husband who passed in his sleep or a child with a health condition-have been twisted into false accusations of murd