Critical Carceral Studies in Action: Geographies, Discourses, and Technologies

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

This panel is part of a three part series that proposes and aims to facilitate a more organized presence of, and collaboration among, critical and abolitionist scholars within the American Society of Criminology. This panel features scholars who engage in critical carceral studies “on the ground”. These papers map the spatial, techno-punitive, and discursive formations that characterize the growing scope of the carceral state. In addition, these papers critically engage with rhetorical interventions and policy reforms that may ultimately reinscribe and instantiate carceral power.

Sub Unit

• Area IV. Criminal Justice Policy and Practice / 36. Challenging Oppressive Justice Policies

Individual Presentations

• Unpacking the Paradox of the 'Human RIghts Prison' in the Context of Everyday Life - Kathryn Henne, University of Melbourne

• Surveillance Technologies and the Carceral State: Mapping the Delineations of Control and Exclusion - Emily Troshynski, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

• The Trafficking-Technology Nexus - Jennifer Musto, Wellesley College

Chairs

• Michelle Brown, University of Tennessee

• Judah Schept, Eastern Kentucky University

Discussant

• Judah Schept, Eastern Kentucky University