SSSP 2024 Annual Meeting

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Date: Sunday, August 11

Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM

Session 102: Institutional Ethnographies of Law, Crime, and Justice
Room: Jarry

Sponsors: Institutional Ethnography
Law and Society

Organizers: Catherine Hastings, Macquarie University
Colin Hastings, University of Waterloo

Presider &

Discussant: Elizabeth L. Brule, Queen's University

Description: 

This session brings together critical scholars who examine the social organization of legal systems and the everyday work of those caught up inside of these systems. While the empirical sites that these projects examine are vast, they share a common commitment to bringing into view the social relations that shape law, crime, and justice. In making the systemic violence of legal systems visible, these projects enhance understandings of how to mobilize resistance and meaningful change.

Papers:

“Legitimating Strategies: Pretrial Risk Assessments and the Logics of Data-driven Judicial Discretion,” Sino V. Esthappan, Northwestern University, Winner of the Law and Society Division’s Student Paper Competition

“Mortality Tracking as Data Justice: An Ethnography into a Community-based Data Infrastructure Seeking to Address Homelessness,” Maxime Goulet-Langlois, McGill University