Revolutionary Criminology: Rethinking Penal Processes Under 45

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

This panel will present a collection of papers that highlight concerns regarding penal practices. Some of the papers are theoretically situated, while others are empirically grounded. Each contribution sits outside the boundaries of orthodox criminology by challenging the discipline to move beyond its narrow conception of punishment, as they force one to seriously consider the consequences of punishment. Moreover, they also challenge readers to consider the socio-political constructionism behind the legal processes that have created current punishment practices. Critical questions about immigration, parental incarceration, policing and prison ecology are discussed.

Sub Unit

• Area III. Perspectives on Crime / 8. Critical Race/Ethnicity and Feminist Perspectives

Individual Presentations

• “These Cops out Here Are Cruddy”: An urban Ethnographic Study of Police Violence in Baltimore, Maryland - Sean Wilson, William Paterson University

• ‘This Used to be an Old-Growth Forest’: Prison, Ecology, and the Biopolitics of Disposability - Jordan E. Mazurek, University of Kent / Universitat Hamburg

• Legal Violence: Crimmigration and the Violent Effects of Deportation - Shirley Leyro, Borough of Manhattan Community College

• “They Took My Daddy”: The Black Prison Diaspora and the Disappearance of Fathers in the Era of Mass Incarceration - Michael Mitchell, University of Texas Arlington

Chair

• Sean Wilson, William Paterson University

Discussant

• Nishaun Battle, Virginia State University