Research Across The Walls

A Guide to Participatory Research Projects & Partnerships to Free Criminalized Survivors

Survived & Punished
Design & Illustration by Danbee Kim

The vast majority of people in women’s prisons, and many in men’s prisons, are survivors of domestic, sexual, homophobic and transphobic violence as children and adults. For many survivors, experiences of policing, criminalization, and incarceration are deeply intertwined with gender-based violence. Yet very little research exists about criminalization of survivors.