Date: Sunday, August 10

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 089: Community-Based Solutions to Criminal Justice Problems
Room: Buckingham Room

Sponsor: Crime and Justice

Organizers &

Presiders: Stephani Williams, Northern Arizona University
Shaneya Nyasia Simmelkjaer, Syracuse University

Description: 

This session will explore the formal and informal mechanisms by which communities organize and/or respond to criminal justice problems that are either created by or remain unsolved by traditional criminal-legal institutions.

Papers:

“Making Communities Safe and Strong: Neighbors and Police Collaboration,” Natasha C. Pratt-Harris, Morgan State University, James J. Nolan and Henry H. Brownstein, West Virginia University

“PIC, CIT, EDPRT, Social Workers…Why Mental Health Crisis Teams Dominated by Police Fail in Rochester, NY,” Ted Forsyth, Syracuse University

“The Diffusion of Policing Alternatives in U.S. Cities after the George Floyd Protests,” Aaron Stagoff-Belfort and Robert Vargas, The University of Chicago and Angela Zorro-Medina, University of Toronto

“Police Abolition as Community Practice: Lessons from an Applied Project,” Luis Alberto Fernandez, Northern Arizona University

“Purposeful Living Units Serve (PLUS): Rehabilitation and Servant Leadership in the Indiana Department of Correction’s Intra-prison Programming,” Peper E. Rivers, Indiana University

“Disturbed Topsoil: The Disappeared, Immeasurable Resistance, and Mexico’s Social Fabric,” Pedro J. Gonazales, Northern Arizona University

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