The CRN had several excellent and well attended sessions at the annual meetings of the Law & Society Association held in Boston, Massachusetts (USA), May 30-June 2, 2013.
Expanding Penal Boundaries
This session brings together scholars doing research on the implications of harsh punitive policies for populations and settings not traditionally associated with carcercal institutions nor traditional penological objectives. Specifically, the papers presented in this session explore expanding penal boundaries in the experiences of elderly prisoners and those with HIV/AIDS. Participants also explore settings outside of prison walls, including urban police accountability activists, formerly incarcerated drug offenders, and gang member-police/teacher interactions.
Chair: Benjamin D. Fleury-Steiner (University of Delaware)
Discussant: Katherine Beckett (University of Washington)
The Emotional Life of Carceral Regimes
by Michelle Brown (University of Tennessee)
Big Foot’s Baby Steps: A Call to Consider the Significance of Harm Reduction
by Erin M Kerrison (University of Delaware)
Missing Fire: Interactional Effects of Punitive Gang Control
by Victor Rios (UCSB)
"Seeing Like a Cop": How Homeless and Impoverished Residents Negotiate Hyper-Policing in Everyday Life
by Forrest D Stuart (University of Chicago)
Hidden Aspects of Prisons
The papers in this CRN-sponsored session address under-researched and surprising aspects of prison policy, life, and administration. We hope to take attendees on a tour of inmate labor unions, the racialization of prison fire camps, a surprising and counterintuitive comparison of U.S. and Denmark extreme punishment practices, and the underbelly of the California realignment.
Chair/Discussant: Benjamin D. Fleury-Steiner (University of Delaware)
Racing Prisons, Imprisoning Race: The Everyday Construction of Race in California's Prison Fire Camps for Men
by Philip Goodman (University of Toronto)
Punitive Contrasts, United States versus Denmark: A Socio-Legal Comparison of Two Prison Systems
by Keramet Reiter (University of California, Irvine)
Just Punishment, Sentencing Reform, and the Challenge of Institutional Design
by Aaron Rappaport (University of California, Hastings)
The Inmate Export Business: Privatization, Prison Closures and Out-of-State Incarceration in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis
by Hadar Aviram (University of California, Hasting
Roundtable: Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys by Victor Rios (UCSB)
Chair: Hadar Aviram (University of California, Hastings)
Participants: Jonathan S. Simon (University of California, Berkeley), Marjorie S. Zatz (NSF/Arizona State University), Erin M Kerrison (University of Delaware), Victor Rios (UCSB), Cid Martinez (CSU, Sacramento Sociology Department)