Criminalization and Medicalization

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

How should we understand the relationship between criminal justice and medicine? Following the “experimental turn” researchers have increasingly drawn on medical ethics and methodology; police departments now employ mental health expertise to diffuse incidents in the field; an aging prison population is pressing corrections departments to grapple with geriatric care and nursing. Each paper in this panel addresses the promise and peril of medicine for the field of criminology.

Sub Unit

• Area XII: Methodology / 68: Advances in Critical Methodology

Individual Presentations

• The Limits of the Medical Model in Research on Crime and Justice - Johann Koehler, University of California, Berkeley; Tobias Smith, University of California, Berkeley

• Policing the Mentally Ill in Los Angeles - Natalie A. Pifer, University of California, Irvine

• Prison Displacements and Life “After” Mass Incarceration for the Elderly - Anjuli Catherine Verma, University of California, Irvine

Chair

• Craig Haney, University of California, Santa Cruz

Discussant

• David Thacher, University of Michigan