Date: Saturday, August 9

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 055: Regulating Risk: Law, Crime, and Social Control in Uncertain Times
Room: Kimball Room

Sponsor: Law and Society

Organizer: Michael Branch, Hartwick College

Presider &

Discussant: To Be Determined, TBD

Description: 

This thematic session critically examines how legal systems define and regulate crime, risk, and social belonging. Panelists in this session will explore the complexities of these systems, along with strategies for navigating and resisting these systems. In particular, panelists will focus on the politics of illegality, the criminalization of survival strategies, and the transformation of debt and surveillance.

Papers:

“Faulty Measures and Failed Promises: Crime, Risky Behavior, and Body Modifications.,” David C. Lane, Illinois State University and Whitney DeCamp, Western Michigan University

“Meanings of Illegality: Everyday Durkheimian Approach to the Politics of Lawbreaking and Group Construction,” Jesse Yeh, Northwestern University

“Oklahoma Foragers and the Commons: Is Food Access a Right or a Privilege?” Olivia M. Fleming, Transylvania University and Tamara L. Mix, Oklahoma State University

“Parasites of Predation: When Bankruptcy Turns Debts into Assets,” Kasey Henricks, University of Illinois Chicago, Ruben Ortiz, Acacia Center for Justice and Nicole Sroka, University of Illinois Chicago

“Recognizing ‘Camera Cues’: Policing, Cellphones, and Citizen Countersurveillance,” Brandon Alston, The Ohio State University

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