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03-28 Carceral States: Rethinking Prisons and Criminal Justice

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 The Fourth Annual Graduate Student Conference hosted by The Prison Studies Group

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Friday, March 28, 2014

12:30-5:15 pm

Room 5409

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS (12:30-12:40 pm)

KEYNOTE: NICOLE FORTIER, THE BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE (12:45 p.m.)

  • Nicole Fortier is Counsel in the Justice Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, which seeks to ensure a rational, efficient, effective, and fair criminal justice system. Through research and advocacy, Fortier works to reduce mass incarceration by realigning financial and perverse incentives in the system.

RETHINKING INCARCERATION AND PENAL POLICY (1:20-2:35 pm)

  • This is God’s Country: On Prison Expansion and Political Machines. Jack Norton (Geography)
  • Bifurcation Nation: Excluding to Include in Contemporary American Punishment. Christopher Seeds (Sociology)
  • Justice Realigned? How Front-Line Community Correctional Work has Changed Under California’s Realignment. Megan Welsh (Criminal Justice)
  • In a Time of Falling Crime Rates and Rising Home Prices: Housing Market Reliance as a Predictor of Penalty. Brenden Beck (Sociology)

RETHINKING RE-ENTRY I: THE CARCERAL STATE AND THE COMMUNITY (2:40-3:55 pm)

  • Coming Home from Lock Up: Community Perspectives for Imagining Re-entry. Cory Greene & Whitney Richards-Calathes (Critical Social Personality Psychology)
  • How The Carceral State Shapes Social Relations. Divya Sundar (Comparative Studies)
  • Ex-Offender Employment, Reentry, and Recidivism: A Critical Literature Review. Maurice Vann Sr. (Social Work)
  • “Criminal” Justice Social Work in the United States: Fulfilling the Obligation of Social Work. Mika’il DeVeaux (Social Work)

RETHINKING RE-ENTRY II: OFFENDERS AND RE-ENTRY (4:00-5:15 pm)

  • Perceptions of Offenders: The Influence of Therapy Participation on Preferences for Social Distance. Emily Edwards (Psychology)
  • Standardized Testing & Incarceration: How Creative Education Can Prevent Incarceration & Reduce Recidivism. Kenny Kruse (Women’s Studies)
  • Making Up Criminals. Phoebe Friesen (Philosophy)
  • How Prisons Create Crime: Prisonized Habitus and the Criminogenic Effects of Incarceration. Liam Martin (Sociology)