Carceral Spatiality: Dialogues between Geography and Criminology: Book Review

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Expanding Carceral Frontiers: The 100-Mile Border Zone and Constituting Latinx Political Subjectivity

The thesis has two interrelated concerns. The first explores the emergence of the 100-mile border zone in order to study how the U.S. has expanded its borders inward and redefined notions of national security and carcerality. The second will define the 100-mile border as a carceral frontier that has emerged from previous years of racial security operations such as “Operation Wetback” in 1953. Moreover, I will demonstrate how the 100-mile border zone, a carceral frontier, blends the logic of security and the carceral in order to create a space of total state control. This inward turn of the 100-mile border zone and the security and carcerality of this space reveals much about the constitution of the sovereign state’s right to define and secure its borders within the nation, the rights of the state over that of the citizen, a citizen\u27s right to free movement and due process, and the racial dynamics of security actions. To explore this contradictory logic of security, I conduct an analysis of security language on border and immigration “operations” that constituted the emergence of the 100-mile border zone since 1953. Through this analysis, I will argue that the 100-mile border zone, as a carceral frontier, is a new theoretical development in Critical Carceral Studies. In this way, this thesis will engage in Securitization Studies, Border Theory, and Carceral theories. This type of analysis will reveal that the 100-mile border zone, and the making of this carceral frontier, is inextricably bound to the rights and status of Latinx

Critical Pathways to Disability Decarceration: Reading Liat Ben-Moshe and Linda Steele

I consider how Liat Ben-Moshe’s Decarcerating Disability and Linda Steele’s Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: Reconsidering Court Diversion contribute to emerging conversations between critical disability studies and anti-carceral studies, and between disability deinstitutionalization and prison abolitionism. I ask: what if any role might law, or specifically rights-based litigation, play in resisting carceral state strategies and redirecting material and conceptual resources toward supports for diverse forms of flourishing? I centre my remarks on the special relevance of Ben-Moshe’s and Steele’s books to social movement activism in Atlantic Canada and critical reappraisal of Canada’s solitary confinement litigation

Critical Pathways to Disability Decarceration: Reading Liat Ben-Moshe and Linda Steele

I consider how Liat Ben-Moshe’s Decarcerating Disability and Linda Steele’s Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: Reconsidering Court Diversion contribute to emerging conversations between critical disability studies and anti-carceral studies, and between disability deinstitutionalization and prison abolitionism. I ask: what if any role might law, or specifically rights-based litigation, play in resisting carceral state strategies and redirecting material and conceptual resources toward supports for diverse forms of flourishing? I centre my remarks on the special relevance of Ben-Moshe’s and Steele’s books to social movement activism in Atlantic Canada and critical reappraisal of Canada’s solitary confinement litigation

“Here I Sit in this Dismal Crypt”: Insider Interpretations of the Canadian Carceral Necropolis

This paper draws from the art produced in the Cell Count archive, a quarterly bulletin that the Prisoners’ Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Support Action Network distributes to persons incarcerated in Canadian prisons. The authors use necropolitical theory to undertake a content analysis of prisoner art to gain insights into how carceral life affects the incarcerated. Specifically, prisoners convey prisons as death-worlds. The mass incarceration practices, which are a mechanism of settler colonialism and white supremacy, strip populations down to bare life. First, prisoners depict their carceral experience as a kind of slow, protracted process of dying. Second, they describe themselves using imagery of the dead. Third, they explore notions of escape or release through an angelic or spiritual afterlife

Early Christians and the History of Incarceration

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Family Separation and Incarceration: an Intersectional Analysis of the Carceral System

Through an intersectional, feminist, prison abolitionist framework, this thesis investigates the types of reentry services available to formerly incarcerated women-identifying people in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the challenges they face during the reentry process, particularly as they relate to gender-based violence and family separation. Based on qualitative research methods, including discourse analysis and content analysis of 33 reentry service providers (RSPs) in the Milwaukee-area in addition to two interviews with formerly incarcerated cis-women and two Wisconsin Department of Corrections employees, key findings reveal how raced, gendered, and classed assumptions influence the type of reentry services available. I argue that the failure to include women-identifying people in reentry services is a form of gender-based violence that further expands the scope of the gendered and heteronormative carceral state (Shaylor & Miners, 2013). This thesis concludes with a consideration of strategies to create, and build on, an abolitionist future in Milwaukee, WI, specifically through non-reformist reforms (Gilmore, 2017). By centering healing, community accountability, and transformative justice, we invest in practices that build the type of world we want to live in without relying on policing apparatuses and carceral regimes

Week of October 25, 2021 - October 29, 2021

Events occurring this week have been sponsored by: Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA) Black Asian & Latino Law Students Association (BALLSA) Alumni Group Cardozo Entertainment Law Society Cardozo Family Law Society Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review Cardozo on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (CIPC) Cardozo Women\u27s Law Initiative (WLI) Chabad at Cardozo Heyman Center on Corporate Law and Governance Intellectual Property Law Society (IPLS) Public Interest Law Advocacy Week (P*LAW) Public Interest Law Student Association (PILSA

Carceral Spatiality: Dialogues between Geography and Criminology: Book Review

No abstract available