Punishment & Society. Theoretical advances and problems

Session Submission Type: Pre-arranged Panel

Abstract

In recent years, the field of punishment and society studies has been consolidated, especially in certain academic settings in the Global North, as a space of intersection of different theoretical and methodological perspectives built from the social sciences that refer to a set of topics related to ‘punishment’, as an object whose boundaries become increasingly sinuous and flexible in contemporary societies. This has given rise to a certain effervescence of contributions and the emergence of a wide and varied set of research questions. In this session, a number of researchers who have been active in this field for several years will raise some of the issues they consider key in the current theoretical debate, inviting the construction of a new agenda for its future development.

Subtopic

• Topic 5: Social Control and Criminal Justice / Penology and Theories Punishment (Crime, Science and Politics WG )

Chair

• Maximo Sozzo, Universidad de A Coruña / Universidad Nacional del Litoral

Individual Presentations

• Three decades on: Reflections on the current state of punishment and society studies (in Europe) - Jose A. Brandariz, University of A Coruna

• Theoretical integration in the sociology of punishment - Ignacio González Sanchez, University of Girona

• Punishment and political membership: bridges between penological worlds. - Zelia Gallo, King’s College London

• Rethinking penal persistence - Maximo Sozzo, Universidad de A Coruña / Universidad Nacional del Litoral