DCS Handbook on Lived Experience: Exploring the Possibilities of Lived Experience

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

This collection of papers from the upcoming DCS Handbook on Lived Experience, addresses the idea of “lived experience” as a broad concept best defined by those affected by the system. These papers, many of which are written by those who have been involved in the criminal legal system, examine what it means to have “lived experience,” and how embracing it in all of its forms, can move the discipline forward and address critical gaps in knowledge and knowledge production.

Sub Unit

• Area VI. The Criminal Justice System / 54. Prisoner Experiences with the Justice System

Individual Presentations

• The power of lived experience - Brian Jones, N/A; Jennifer E. Cobbina-Dungy, Michigan State University

• When the shoe doesn’t fit: A reflection on ‘lived experience’ - B. Williams, University of Delaware; Mackenzie Niness, University of Delaware

• Professionally “formerly incarcerated” - Enrique Olivares-Pelayo, University of Arizona

• Elevating lived experience to lived expertise in criminological research - Helen Skipper, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

• What is more “empirical” than lived experience? - Jamie Fader, Temple University

Discussant

• Jamie Fader, Temple University

Organized by a Division or external group?

Division on Corrections and Sentencing.