Derr, KatelynHattery, Angela J.Smith, Earl2024-03-052024-03-052024-02-26Derr, K., Hattery, A. J., & Smith, E. (2024). Help or Harm? Criminalizing Intimate Partner Violence and Feminist Abolitionist Frames. Violence Against Women, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/107780122412348951552-8448https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/34095This is the Accepted Manuscript version of Derr, K., Hattery, A. J., & Smith, E. (2024). Help or Harm? Criminalizing Intimate Partner Violence and Feminist Abolitionist Frames. Violence Against Women, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012241234895. Copyright © The Author(s) 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012241234895.After decades of work by feminists to criminalize domestic violence, more recently feminist abolitionists have identified the harm that the carceral state has on all impacted by it, including victims/survivors. Based on interviews with a diverse sample of 22 women and men who were system impacted, we find evidence of cases in which the criminal legal system both helped and harmed the victim/survivor. We identify policy interventions that promote alternative methods to intervening in intimate partner violence relationships that center the victim/survivor, create safety, and reduce the increased surveillance and overall impact of the criminal legal system.en-USdomestic violenceintimate partner violenceracecriminal legal systemabolitionArticle