2349 - Social Justice Implications of Mass Incarceration

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other nation in the world. Moreover, the consequences of mass incarceration disproportionately affect poor people and women and men of color, such that mass incarceration has become a technology of reproduction of social hierarchies. Any discussion of social justice in the United States must interrogate mass incarceration as a technology of the state and its implications for race, class, and gender based inequalities. This session brings together scholars who evaluate the consequences of mass incarceration through different lenses and with different approaches in order to address this issue.

Sub Unit

• Special Session

Session Organizer

• Wendy Leo Moore, Texas A&M University

Presider

• Patrick Lopez-Aguado, Santa Clara University

Individual Presentations

• Criminal Justice as Social Justice - Bruce Western, Columbia University

• Carceral Complicities: Holding Institutions of Higher Education Accountable for Our Carceral Crises - Susila Gurusami, University of Toronto

• Target Populations or Caught in the Net: How Race and Gender have Structured Prison Reform Efforts Throughout American History and What it Means for Reforming Mass Incarceration - Ashley T. Rubin, University of Hawaii, Manoa

Discussant

• Patrick Lopez-Aguado, Santa Clara University