Roundtable: The Continuing Significance of Race in Criminal Justice System Processing: Police, Courts, Corrections and Beyond

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract/Description

The aim of discussion is to expand the body of evidence documenting the profound racial impacts of the global expansion of the carceral state. This session will address the ways in which political rhetoric of “public safety”, “crime prevention” and “crime control” have normalized the blanket surveillance, policing and confinement of specific groups, especially those within particular geospatial locations.

Sub Unit

• Area XIV. Roundtables

Chair

• Patrice Collins, Northeastern University

Discussants

• Christine Sharon Barrow, Molloy University

• Delores Jones-Brown, Fayetteville State University

• Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill, Arizona State University

• Bryan L. Sykes, Cornell University