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CFP 14 - Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Inventing Criminality across the Globe
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Sponsor: Crime and Justice

Organizer &

Presider/Discussant: Rafia Javaid Mallick, Georgia State University

Description: 

This session critically examines the social, political, and legal construction of “criminality” as a transnational phenomenon. We interrogate how laws, state policies, and media discourses across the globe invent and racialize categories of crime and deviance to control marginalized populations. Presentations explore the exportation of carceral logics, the criminalization of migration and poverty, and the governance of bodies through globalized “wars” on drugs and terror. By analyzing these processes, the session seeks to uncover how power operates to designate threats, legitimize inequality, and expand punitive systems, challenging the naturalized assumptions about who and what are deemed criminal.

Papers:

“Colorblind Crimmigration: Anti-Blackness and the Hart-Celler Act of 1965,” Nicolas R. Howard, Old Dominion University

“State Data and the Production of Quantitative Knowledge: The Case of Police Stops in the United States and France,” Michael Zanger-Tishler, Harvard University, Winner of the Crime and Justice Division’s Student Paper Competition

“Economic Connectedness or Social Exposure? Reassessing Cross-National Homicide Rates Using Social Dimensions of the KOF Globalization Index,” Ali O. Shodunke, The Pennsylvania State University

“Martyrdom, Masculinity, and Ideological Worldmaking: A Textual Analysis of Islamic State Nasheeds,” Obydullah Al Marjuk, University of South Florida

“Scare Tactics as Communicative Performance in Low-Budget Scams: Why People Still Fall for Them in the 21st Century,” Essien Oku Essien, Drexel University

“‘Now I’m Older So I Really Try Not to Fight’: Adolescence, Criminality, and Black Youth Advocacy in Post-2020 Philadelphia,” Sophia Lindner, Yale University

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