Race, Culture, and the Colonial Dimensions of Familial Punishment

Session Submission Type: Pre-arranged Panel

Abstract

The relationship between racialised violence, cultural production, and contemporary penal practices has begun to feature prominently across a number of disciplines––with particular emphasis placed upon punishment in the Global North. However, the unique role of colonial legacies, political violence, and intergenerational harm in shaping global carceral injustices remains notably under-explored.

This paper session aims to address this gap, suggesting that contemporary criminological research in a variety of jurisdictions (US, Cambodia, and India) must begin to prioritise cultural and historical narratives that centre the race/gender/punishment nexus (Chesney-Lind 2006). Furthermore, the authors seek to highlight the pains of imprisonment endured by families at each stage of the criminal legal process, including both incarceration and re-entry.

Subtopic

• Topic 3: Crime Correlates / Family and Intergenerational Perspectives (Intergenerational Criminology WG)

Chair

• Rachel Condry, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford

Individual Presentations

• Punishment in Post-Colonial India: Views from Families of Prisoners in Kashmir - ROONAQ UN NISA, N/A; Rachel Condry, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford

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

• Chicana/x Carework: Who bears the brunt of the carceral geography in the Southwest U.S. Borderlands? - Marlene Mercado, California State University, San Marcos

• Prisoner-Family Relationships in Cases of Extreme Distance in the U.S. - Molly Biddle, University of Cambridge