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This article considers how men imprisoned for non-fatal strangulation, a serious domestic violence (DV) offence, describe their acts, conviction and imprisonment. Drawing on interviews with prisoners convicted of strangulation in Queensland, Australia, we identify themes in relation to men’s minimisation of harm, their arguments about strangulation as an optimal tool of control, and their conspiratorial views that they are victims of feminism and the justice response. We argue that men’s accounts of strangulation, the law and their imprisonment demonstrate how prisons can be a site for the reproduction of gendered hierarchies, misogynist tropes, and justified violence against women. Our analysis contributes to research about men’s representations of violence against women and highlights the tensions and complexities underpinning assumptions about the role of criminal law, and specifically, imprisonment, as a response to DV. |