New Perspectives on the Perils and Possibilities of Reform

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

The following session highlights the work of junior scholars who draw on critical criminology to understand how we might improve efforts to reform carceral institutions broadly defined, whether that be prisons, community supervision, or the family. The work highlighted in this session explores how various stakeholders are grappling with policy reform efforts across these contexts and navigating enduring, punitive carceral logics. We draw on queer and feminist criminology, as well as abolitionist perspectives, in each of these qualitative studies to push the field in new directions.

Sub Unit

• Area X. Critical Criminology / 78. Critical Perspectives in Criminology

Individual Presentations

• The Abolitionist Fight for Trans Prisoners’ Rights - Joss Greene, Syracuse University

• Flavors of Reform: Electronic Monitoring Polices and Current Reform Movements - Gabriela Kirk, Syracuse University

• Prison Rape Reform and the Myth of Sexual Safety - Amber Joy Powell, University of Iowa

• Reassessing the "Bad Parents Narrative": Gender-Policing of Trans, Gender Nonconforming, and Nonbinary People Through Ghost Policing - Ash Stephens, University of Illinois Chicago

Discussant

• Michelle Phelps, University of Minnesota