Convict Criminology Panel #2: Feminist Convict Criminology for the Future

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

This thematic panel session is for scholars interested in convict criminology from a feminist perspective. Panelists will present related research and facilitate an open dialogue on feminist theory, epistemology, and methodology within convict criminology. Topics of discussion will include the gendered and racial lived experience of being formerly incarcerated and/or criminal justice system-impacted; centering the knowledge of women, people of color, and LGBTQ individuals through feminist standpoint theory and situated knowledge; being an outsider within when conducting criminological and criminal justice research; patriarchal reactions to identifying as a feminist convict criminologist; occupational and professional challenges for feminist convict criminologists; and various barriers to conducting feminist research.

Sub Unit

• Area X. Critical Criminology / 72. Convict Criminology

Individual Presentations

• Feminist Convict Criminology for the Future - Alison Cox, University of Northern Iowa; Michelle L. Malkin, East Carolina University

• Show Up for Your dead: For a Feminist Convict Criminological Analysis in COVID Capitalism, Rural Potter's Fields and Cemeteries - Lucas Alan Dietsche, Adams State University

• Women Fighting the Gender-Biased Criminal Injustice System - Doshie Piper, University of the Incarnate Word

• Barriers to Diversity in Higher Education: Standing at the Intersection of Identity and Convict Criminology - A Brief Exercise in Reflexivity - J. Renee Trombley, Claflin University

Chair

• Alison Cox, University of Northern Iowa

Discussant

• Grant Tietjen, St. Ambrose University