Carol Jacobsen Published in UCLA Journal of Gender & Law
“CARCERAL BACKLASH: The Case for Changing the Course of Women’s Homicide Convictions,” a study co-authored by Stamps Professor Emeritus Carol Jacobsen, was recently published in the UCLA Journal of Gender & Law. The article, co-written with David Winter and Abigail Stewart, argues that women convicted of homicide often face unjustly harsh sentences due to carceral policies that overlook gendered factors and advocates for trauma-informed, restorative justice reforms in the criminal legal system.
In June, Jacobsen was featured in a two-part interview on the Feminist Law podcast. Jacobsen spoke with Feminist Law co-founder and host Courtney Jones about women who are convicted of homicide after killing their abusers and how self-defense laws often fail them.