Date: TBD

Time: TBD

CFP 15 - Regular: Mass Incarceration and Perpetual Punishment I
Room: TBD

Sponsor: Crime and Justice

Organizer: Kristen M. Budd, The Sentencing Project

Presider: Breana Frazier, Florida International University

Description: 

This session on mass incarceration explores the intersection of mass incarceration and the U.S. criminal legal system’s overreliance on perpetual punishment. Perpetual punishment is broadly defined to include the pains of incarceration, extreme sentencing, denials of criminal legal relief, and other collateral consequences that result from a criminal conviction.

Papers:

“‘A Safe and Sane Policy’: Lessons from the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s Decarceration Experiment, 1933,” Audrey Augenbraum, University of California, Berkeley

“Advocating for ‘The Worst of the Worst’: Alliance-Building in the Movement to Abolish Life without Parole Sentencing,” Kelsey Weymouth-Little, University of California, Irvine

“From Foster Care to the Juvenile Justice System,” Breana Frazier, Florida International University

“God Does Not ‘Punish’: Punishment as Practice and Paradigm of Order-Preserving Violence,” Andrea Beltran-Lizarazo, Boston University

“Mapping Carceral Landscapes: Towards a Multi-Institutional Theory and Measure of State Punishment,” Kendall Riley, The University of Iowa

“Sex in the Carceral State,” Maximillian Calleo, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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