With a focus on Black women who identify as victims and/or survivors of domestic violence (DV) and who have experience navigating DV non-profit systems, my dissertation considers how DV services replicate structures of punitivity and carcerality. As argued by a growing number of scholars, the experiences of women of color in the U.S. exist at the intersections of race, class, and gender, intersections which have enabled pathways between intimate partner violence to jails, prisons, and detention centers. However, very little research about DV victim advocacy services as itself a function of the carceral state exists. In my dissertation, I argue that the DV non-profit maze of advocacy services reproduce a carceral relationship between women of color – particularly Black women--and those same DV services, creating what I argue is a DV non-profit carceral system. My work seeks to account for how class, race, and gender have shaped, formed, and continue to feed what I argue is a DV non-profit carceral system.  I investigate the demands that Black victims and/or survivors of DV are subjected to by DV non-profit programs that organize services around the concepts of "good” behavior, surveillance, and mothering classes, and I contend that these elements of advocacy ultimately constitute a form of carceral "sentencing” of victims and/or survivors. My research also engages with ideas and practices of community and advocacy in order to expand this analysis by accounting for criminalizing practices within the services themselves, an area that has been largely neglected within the field of feminist studies of gender- based violence as well as critical scholarship on systems of criminalization.