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SUMMARY:Construction(s) of Female Criminality: Gender\, Caste and State Vi
 olence - Nikita Sonavane\, Founder Criminal Justice and Police Accountabil
 ity Project in Bhopal\, India
DTSTART:20221118T130000Z
DTEND:20221118T140000Z
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DESCRIPTION:"The narrative of a criminal woman finds its bearings within t
 he caste system in India. During British colonial rule\, the Criminal Trib
 es Act\, 1871 classified several tribes as hereditary\, habitual criminals
  who by nature were predisposed to committing petty offences. Their allege
 d likelihood to commit crime at any moment justified blanket surveillance 
 against them at all times. The hereditary caste system was the primary soc
 iological paradigm through which the colonial state understood and perceiv
 ed criminality. It framed specific “deceitful” crimes as the ascribed 
 occupations of communities that were outside the order of the caste system
  and pursued impure\, unspecific or non-traditional occupations\, sometime
 s without residing in permanent shelters. This talk explores the gendered 
 nature of the colonial construction of criminality attributed to women bel
 onging to Vimukta jatis (denotified nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes) throu
 gh an analysis of criminal law. The first section of this talk outlines th
 e influence of caste in the construction of women’s criminality through 
 the CTA. The second section locates Adivasi and Vimukta women’s bodies a
 s sites of casteist state repression through criminal law and the criminal
  justice system\, even as custodial violence against Vimukta women by the 
 state has been erased and made invisible. The structural underpinning of t
 his violence is negated in “mainstream” discourse. The third section d
 etails how narratives of criminality further aid and abet repression\, by 
 analysing arrest data for excise offences in Madhya Pradesh and bail order
 s passed against women from the Vimukta Kuchbandhiya community in MP."
LOCATION:Seminar room\, Institute of Criminology Sidgwick Site
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