Date: Sunday, August 11

Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 099: Intersections of Health, Criminal Justice, and Harm Reduction
Room: Drummond West

Sponsors: Crime and Justice
Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare

Organizer: Cynthia Baiqing Zhang, Evergreen Campus LLC

Presider: Gethin Rees, Newcastle University

Description: 

This session is focused on how health, criminal justice, and harm reduction are inter-related. The contact with the criminal justice system is significant for people’s lives, including health. The criminal justice system is supposed to reduce harm. That is, the criminal justice system is assigned the tasks of social security explicitly and social wellbeing implicitly. In this session, we explore the inter-connection of health, criminal justice, and harm reduction with theoretical and empirical studies. Because vulnerable people (e.g. women, minority, low-income individuals, LGBTQ community, and others) are overrepresented in the inmate population in the U.S., this session is also informed by scholarship on inequality.

Papers:

“Disrupting Constructions: How Prison Dog Rehabilitation Programs Destabilize Racialized Arrangements during and after Incarceration,” Jennifer K. Wesely, University of North Florida

“Exploring the Impact of a Cathartic Movement Program (Dance to be Free) on Incarcerated Women,” Timbre L. Wulf, Central State University, Suzanne L. Maughan Spencer and Julie N. Campbell, University of Nebraska Kearney

“Harm Reduction and Reproductive Health for Peripregnant Women Who Use Drugs and Have a History of Incarceration in the U.S.,” Kathryn Nowotny and Melanie McKenna, University of Miami and Edward Suarez, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

“Methadone Access in Police Custody Healthcare as Denied Care: Professional Risk Discourses and the Patient Group Directive,” Gethin Rees, Newcastle University

“Trauma, Gender, and The Criminal(izing) Justice System: A Critical Review of Sentencing,” Josephine A. Barnett, The Graduate Center, CUNY

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