Roundtable: Mass Supervision: Analyzing Pervasive Punishment

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This roundtable explores the proliferation of community-based forms of penalisation or punishment. This aspect of late-modern penal expansion -- beyond the jail or prison -- has been somewhat neglected to date in debates about mass incarceration. We aim to discuss both why criminologists and sociologists must remedy that neglect and how they might do so. The various discussants will explore (1) the meanings, scope and usefulness of emerging concepts such as 'mass supervision' and 'mass probation', (2) how and why supervision has expanded and spread within and across jurisdictions, (3) how it is experienced by its subjects, and (4) whether and how it is (or might be) represented in the public sphere, including in debates associated with penal reform or abolition.

Sub Unit

• Area XII. Roundtables

Chair

• Fergus Ewan McNeill, University of Glasgow

Discussants

• Robert Werth, Rice University

• Reuben Miller, University of Chicago

• Michelle Brown, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

• Alexandra Cox, University of Essex

• Erin M. Kerrison, University of California, Berkeley

• Gail Super, University of Toronto

• Shadd Maruna, University of Manchester