940215.1205 Hal PEPINSKY@INDIANA.EDU
a general theory of violence:
Feminist Justice--February 15, 1994
The text is available as filename fj2154, on dir
/pub/justus, at ftp.law.indiana.edu
DIGEST
This weekly letter of mine to my feminist justice seminar on
children's rights and safety is a tribute to Faye Yager,
founder of Children of the Underground in Atlanta, who
returned to the seminar at her own expense last night to
share how she came to form the underground and what she has
learned from children about child abuse internationally in
the process.
I wrote last fall of Faye's courage and depth of
understanding, which the students in the seminar can assess
for themselves. I want to use my letter of tribute to this
visit as a vehicle for putting the phenomenon of child abuse
into the larger context of criminology: to explain how the
world of child abuse Faye and others are showing me fills in
a crucial missing piece in our understanding of crime, and
of the misdirection of criminal justice.