Roundtable: Teaching Penal Abolition

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This roundtable is organized to foster a discussion about teaching penal abolition. Participants will share about their work to integrate penal abolition content into the curriculum. “Teaching” and “curriculum” are here broadly conceived to include the collegiate setting, the prison setting, or any setting which references an attempt to educate others on penal abolition.

Sub Unit

• Area XIII: Roundtable Sessions

Division of Special Interest

• Divisions of Special Interest / Division on Corrections & Sentencing

Chair

• Michael J. Coyle, California State University, Chico

Discussants

• Angela Bryant, The Ohio State University-Newark

• William Calathes, New Jersey City University

• Ben Turk, Insurgent Theatre