Revolutionary Criminology: Shifting Toward a 21st Century Radical Paradigm

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

This panel will discuss the development and foundation of revolutionary criminology, a theoretical perspective grounded within a socio-historical approach to understanding crime and punishment. Panelists will speak to critical discourses involving the following areas: race, activist driven ethnography, and the creation of intentional community spaces of support that address the relationship between collective movement organizing and the reactions and responses from key role players within the criminal justice system. Each of the papers will examine the intersection of state violence against movement activism, addressing social, economic, and political oppression and ways to build consciousness to foster an environment that exemplifies the idea of social justice for marginalized and oppressed communities.

Sub Unit

• Area X: Perceptions and Responses to Crime and Justice / 61: Activism and Social Movements

Individual Presentations

• A Historical and Contemporary Analysis of Punishment Discourses: Neoliberal Penology in the Age of Colorblindness - Jason Williams, Montclair State University; Nishaun Battle, Virginia State University

• Race, Reentry and Mass Incarceration: A critical analysis of racial and criminal stigma - Sean Wilson, Texas Southern University

• Criminal Justice Racism, Black Revolution and White Reformation - Christopher Magno, Gannon University

• At the Intersection of Gaming and #BlackLivesMatter: White Policing of Black Cultural Production in Online Communities - Kishonna Gray, Eastern Kentucky University

• Deep Green Abolition: Penal Abolition at the Intersection of Environmental and Racial Justice - Jordan Mazurek, Eastern Kentucky University