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THEMATIC

CFP 96 - Thematic: Law in/as Crisis: Punishment and the Legitimacy of State Violence
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Sponsor: Law and Society

Organizers: Michael Branch, Hawaiʻi Community College
Sino V. Esthappan, Northwestern University

Presider: Sino V. Esthappan, Northwestern University

Description: 

This panel interrogates how punishment shapes, justifies, and destabilizes the legitimacy of state violence. The papers examine immigration enforcement, migrant crisis governance, and the relationship between economic contribution and ICE arrests, revealing tensions between labor demand and deportation regimes. Panelists will also address the ways in which state violence is normalized through bureaucratic practice and public discourse, even as affected communities question, reinterpret, and resist its authority.

Papers:

“‘Money Instead of Change’: How Civil Compensation for Police Violence Shapes Litigants’ Views of the State,” Solome Solomon Haile, Princeton University, Winner of the Law and Society Division’s Student Paper Competition

“Examining the Relationship between Immigrant Economic Contributions and ICE Arrests,” Maeve E. Donnelly, Florida State University

“Lessons Learned: Government Response to the Migrant Crisis,” Edwin Grimsley, Felicia Arriaga, Masooma Amin, Daisy Flores and Nishanthini Mahendran, Baruch College, CUNY

“Making a Worker: Manufacturing Consent for Penal Labor through News Media Coverage of Incarcerated Women Firefighters,” Raquel Guzman Delerme, University of Southern California

“The Costs of Justice: Assessing the Legitimacy of Fines and Fees in Florida,” Tanajia D. Moye-Green, Stanford University

“Therapeutic Retribution: When Offender Punishment Becomes Victim Care in Progressive Prosecution,” Amelia Roskin-Frazee, University of California, Irvine, Honorable Mention of the Law & Society Division’s Student Paper Competition

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