Date: TBD

Time: TBD

CFP 16 - Regular: State of Policing I
Room: TBD

Sponsor: Crime and Justice

Organizers &

Presiders: Jennifer M. Carpenter, Georgia State University
Kelly M. Tabbutt, Alfred University

Description: 

This session welcomes work across the spectrum of perspectives on policing. This includes challenges to effective crime control as well as concerns arising from policing practices themselves. Contributions may range from analyses of police abolition and disparate police involvement (overpolicing) to examinations of insufficient police responsiveness (underpolicing) to victimization within marginalized communities. Topics may address effective policing and questions about the necessity and value of policing, particularly in relation to misuse of force, bias in surveillance, interactions and interrogation practices, and carceral system capture (e.g., arrest). Discussions of the criminalization of immigration and the expanded enforcement powers of Immigration and Customs Enforcement are also welcome.

Papers:

“‘Chinatown Will Not Be Easy Pickings’: Private Investments in Policing in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, 1972–2000,” Victoria Tran, University of California, Los Angeles

“Benign Neglect and the Differential Policing of Racially Motivated Hate Crime in America,” Jack Mitchel Mills, Brendan Lantz, Maeve E. Donnelly and Marin Ruth Wenger, Florida State University

“From Enemy Criminal Law to Necropolitics: Legal Mechanisms of Social Death in Brazil,” Nina P. Lins, University of Fortaleza

“Rotted Roots or Bad Apples?: The Value of Institutional Theory for Understanding ICE Operations under the Trump Administration,” Janelle M. Pham, Oglethorpe University

“The Fire This Time: How Policing Holds Together Race, Space, and Time,” Korey Tillman, Northeastern University

“Use of Social Media in Police Operations and Practices in Nigeria,” Muhammed Faisol Olaitan, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology

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