Date: Friday, August 9

Time: 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 036: Reckoning with Institutional Violence: Perspectives across Organizational Contexts
Room: Musset

Sponsor: Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare

Organizer, Presider &

Discussant: Julio A. Alicea, Rutgers University-Camden

Description: 

This session seeks to examine how a range of organizations (i.e., social service organizations, government agencies, hospitals, schools, workplaces, etc.) create and reproduce inequality through institutional violence. Here institutional violence is understood as how policies, practices, and routines that contribute to forms of stratification and injustice within an organization. In focusing on institutional violence, this session calls attention to meso-level machinations of inequality that then resonate with and reinforce inequalities on micro and macro levels.

Papers:

“Methadone Access in Police Custody Healthcare as Denied Care: Strategies and Consequences of Detainment in Police Custody in England, UK,” Stephanie Mulrine and Gethin Rees, Newcastle University

“Misguided Fantasies of Resistance: Volatile Service Encounters at U.S. Dollar Stores,” Tracy L. Vargas, University of North Carolina at Pembroke

“Organizational Neglect: Unsympathetic Racial Crisis Response as Institutional Violence,” Julio A. Alicea, Rutgers University-Camden

“Racial Equity in Homelessness Response: A Qualitative Study of Two Urban Communities,” Molly K. Richard, Boston University

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