Deadline- February 25, 2013
The Prison Studies Group is inviting papers for Third Annual Graduate Student Conference on “Police, Power, and Prisons: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Criminal Justice.” This conference will take place at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York on April 12, 2013.
The aim of the conference is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for emerging scholars whose research relates to the prison and criminal/juvenile justice systems. This group welcome papers across academic fields, and we encourage submissions on a broad range of subjects on the general theme of crime and punishment – past and present, domestic and international.
Topics included-
- The power of police and policing Racial profiling-
- Stop and frisk
- Police shootings
- Vigilante policing
- Technology, surveillance, control of public space
- Immigration enforcement
- Comparative international or transnational policing
- The power of prisons and imprisonment Political economy of mass incarceration-
- Trends in sentencing
- 40 years of mandatory minimums in NY (Rockefeller Drug Laws)
- Immigration detention
- School-to-Prison pipeline
- Inmates and correction officers
- Satisfying the need for justice: blame and criminal accountability
- Struggles and successes of reentry
- The power of people and knowledge The prison as a site of the production of knowledge
- Increased political, academic, and public concern over mass incarceration. Is this a moment of change?
- Educational and other programs in prisons
- Preventing crime, criminalization, and incarceration
- (de) construction of criminality
Other requirements-
Graduate students interested in participating should submit the following as an email attachment (.doc/x or .pdf)-
- paper abstract not exceeding 300 words;
- name as it should appear in the program;
- graduate program in which student is enrolled (school, department and degree working toward);
- brief bio to be read as an introduction at the conference;
- an indication of any a/v needs such as power-point, dvd, video, etc.
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