Carceral Care

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

What are the boundaries between helping and harming? What distinguishes care from control? This panel brings together scholarship from the United States and Canada to interrogate the interstices between these seemingly disparate pairs of constructs within the criminal legal system. Substantive topics include juvenile justice reforms, foster care, banishment and gentrification, and volunteering within non-profit organizations. Across these diverse topics and contexts, panelists explore how community-based efforts to help criminalized and marginalized people frequently amount to an expanding system of punishment, surveillance, control, and policing. In doing so, each of these papers also offer a reflection on the theoretical and empirical affordances of carceral care as a lens through which we can study punishment.

Sub Unit

• Area VI. The Criminal Justice System / 52. Prisoner Experiences with the Justice System

Individual Presentations

• The Criminalization of Trauma in Carceral/Community Alliances - Kayla M. Martensen, University of New Mexico

• Carcerality and Care: Interrogating the State as Caretaker of Latina Girls in Foster Care - Isabella C. Restrepo, University of California, San Diego

• Sweeping Suciedad: Feminist, Indigenous, Queer and Trans Responses to Policing Space, Sexualities and unhousedness in Latinx MacArthur Park - Kimberly M. Soriano, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Settler Colonialism in the Penal Voluntary Sector - Katie Quinn, Syracuse University