While criminological literature, criminal justice practice, and to a lesser extent, state policy have acknowledged a link between women’s criminalisation and gendered violence (MoJ, 2018; Österman, 2018; Prison Reform Trust, 2017; Roberts, 2015), there has been much less acknowledgement of the role of historical and contemporaneous experiences of violence in the desistance scripts of criminalised women. Combining findings from two research projects exploring gender and desistance, this article argues that (i) criminalised women’s experiences of gendered violence are such that any exploration of gender and desistance which does not acknowledge this is incomplete, (ii) coercion and control can inform women’s entry into the criminal justice system, (iii) expressions of agency and resistance in abusive interpersonal relationships can also inform women’s offending, yet (iv) women’s experiences of desistance from crime can mask the harm they face in coercive, controlling, and violent relationships. Thus, the article argues for a reframing of desistance from crime as desistance from harm both theoretically and in practice, and considers what this might entail.

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家庭暴力对女性抵抗力影响的定性调查

虽然犯罪学文献、刑事司法实践以及在较小程度上的国家政策已经承认女性犯罪与性别暴力之间存在联系（MoJ，2018 年；Österman，2018 年；监狱改革信托基金，2017 年；Roberts，2015 年），但已经有很多较少承认历史和同时代的暴力经历在被定罪妇女的停止脚本中的作用。本文结合两个探索性别和抵抗的研究项目的发现，认为 (i) 将女性的性别暴力经历定为刑事犯罪，以至于任何不承认这一点的性别和抵抗的探索都是不完整的，(ii) 胁迫和控制可以告知女性进入刑事司法系统，(iii) 虐待性人际关系中的能动性和抵抗力的表达也可以为女性的犯罪提供信息，但 (iv) 女性停止犯罪的经历可以掩盖她们在胁迫、控制和暴力关系中面临的伤害。因此，本文主张在理论上和实践中将阻止犯罪重新定义为阻止伤害，并考虑这可能会带来什么。