Regulation in All the Wrong Places: What In-Situ Research on the Operations of Law, Policing, and Informal Social Control Has to Tell Us About What We’re Doing Wrong and How We Can Do Better

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

This panel consists of papers that show how presently-fashionable approaches to dealing with “disorder” and crime in the United States have misfired in ways that have proven counterproductive to the very aims that they are ostensibly designed to advance. These approaches are driven by logics that unduly simplify and individualize “problems” that ample research has shown to be both complex and rooted in the very structure of American society. This is a story that has been told before, yet all too often in ways that fail to point to alternative possibilities—with the exception of possibilities that are only apt to exist in a radically-different, faraway future. This panel speaks not only to the possibilities that might be realized in such a future—an undeniably important exercise in counterfactual imagination—but also to what may be done in the near term to render regulation (including but not limited to law) more effective towards the end of fashioning a safer, fairer, and more humane society.

Sub Unit

• Area VII: Criminal Justice Policy and Practice / 35: Challenging Criminal Justice Policies

Individual Presentations

• Beyond “Broken Windows”: How Order Is (And Can Be) Maintained in the Absence and in the Shadow of the Police - Michael Rowan, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

• Clean Halls, Broken Windows: Bringing Stop and Frisk Policing Inside New York's Apartment Buildings - Molly Kovel, The Bronx Defenders

• Color-Conscious Anti-Racism: Bias and Opportunity in the Violent Victimization of Central American Migrants in Long Island, NY - Anthony Marcus, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

• Homeless Hotspots or the Criminalization of Poverty in New York City - Yolanda C. Martin, City University of New York / BMCC

• Teaching Law Enforcement Undergraduates at John Jay College of Criminal Justice : From Punishment to Public Health. - Ernest Drucker, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Chair

• Michael Rowan, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Discussant

• Ric Curtis, John Jay College of Criminal Justice