Race, Culture, and the Collateral Dimensions of Familial Punishment

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

The use of imprisonment as a form of social control has been widely documented by socio-legal scholars across a range of disciplines. However, the relationship between carceral violence, colonial histories, and the contemporary family has only recently been addressed––often narrowly.
To address this gap, this session examines the collateral impact of penal power on the loved ones of those enduring the pains of incarceration, remand, and detention. Applying an analytical framework that borrows from critical legal theory, political economy, narrative writing, and experiential knowledge from solidarity work, the papers in this session highlight the entangled and 'symbiotic' (Condry and Manson 2021) relationships between state punishment, familial relationships, and the dignity of justice-involved people.

Sub Unit

• Area IV. Correlates of Crime / 28. Race and Ethnicity

Individual Presentations

• Family Ties and the Socio-Spatial Dynamics of Gang Violence in Bermuda - Frankco Harris, University of Oxford

• The Impact of Punishment on Families in Cambodia - Rachel Condry, University of Oxford

• Prisoner-Family Relational Maintenance: A Hawaiian Case Study - Molly Biddle, University of Cambridge

Chair

• Adam Kluge, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford

Discussant

• Rachel Condry, University of Oxford

Organized by a Division or external group?

Global Prisoners' Families Research Network
https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/global-prisoners-families/global-prisoners-families