Next Digital Speaker: Burton on "The Machinery of Demons: Crime and the Uncanny Mind in the Nineteenth Century"

Our fifth installment of the P&S CRN Digital Speaker Series will feature Chase Burton and his talk, "The Machinery of Demons: Crime and the Uncanny Mind in the Nineteenth Century" on Wednesday, May 16 at 12:30 EST. We will send out a link to the talk a little before the talk, which will stream live on YouTube. We hope you all can make it!  

Punishment & Society CRN Digital Speaker Series

 

Wednesday, May 16 at 12:30 EST

(Instructions for watching the talk online forthcoming)

 

Chase Burton, UC Berkeley 

 

The Machinery of Demons: Crime and the Uncanny Mind in the Nineteenth Century 

This talk shares an excerpt from my dissertation project on American criminology in the nineteenth century and the ways in early proto-scientific writing about crime drew on literary forms and images for coherence. I will try to sketch out a history of obsession, which emerged in the early nineteenth century as a way of talking about the uncanny irrational: the pieces of superstition, fear and lack of control that should have been conquered by Enlightenment rationality, but constantly re-emerged. Obsession provided a frame for the American reinterpretation and extension of monomania theory, which then fractured and was rearticulated into single issue diagnoses (pyromania, kleptomania) that in turn became indicators of non-hereditary degeneracy in the first prominent US eugenic theories of criminology advanced by W. Duncan McKim and D. A. Gorton. The goal is thus both to draw attention to often-overlooked yet influential figures in the intellectual history of American criminology, and to show how early twentieth century eugenic theory was built on references to and extensions of Gothic tropes and imagery. 

Sent on behalf of the P&S Digital Speaker Series Committee 

(Sarah Lageson, Rose Ricciardelli, and Ashley Rubin)

If you would like to present your work through the speaker series or join the organizing committee, please email us!

Members' Publications

As compiled by Miltonette Craig:

RECENTLY PUBLISHED WORKS

February 2017

ARTICLES

Black, Lynsey. (2017). “On the Other Hand the Accused Is a Woman…”: Women and the Death Penalty in Post-Independence Ireland. Law and History Review. DOI: 10.1017/S0738248017000542. [Access it here]

Burkhardt, Brett C. (2018). Contesting Market Rationality: Discursive Struggles over Prison Privatization. Punishment & Society. DOI: 10.1177/1462474517751665.[Access it here]

Cooper, Jessica. (2017). Trapped: The Limits of Care in California’s Mental Health Courts. Social Justice, 44(1), 121-141. [Access it here]

Garland, David. (2018). Theoretical Advances and Problems in the Sociology of Punishment. Punishment & Society,20(1), 8-33.[Access it here]

Gibson-Light, Michael. (Forthcoming). Ramen Politics: Informal Money and Logics of Resistance in the Contemporary American Prison. Qualitative Sociology.

Kerrison, Erin M. (2018). Risky Business, Risk Assessment, and Other Heteronormative Misnomers in Women’s Community Corrections and Reentry Planning. Punishment & Society, 20(1), 134-151.[Access it here]

Lageson, Sarah, & Shadd Maruna. (2018). Digital Degradation: Stigma Management in the Internet Age. Punishment & Society, 20(1), 113-133. [Access it here]

Reiter, Keramet, Lori Sexton, & Jennifer Sumner. (2018). Theoretical and Empirical Limits of Scandinavian Exceptionalism: Isolation and Normalization in Danish Prisons. Punishment & Society, 20(1), 92-112.

[Access it here]

Savelsberg, Joachim J. (2018). Punitive Turn and Justice Cascade: Mutual Inspiration from Punishment & Society and Human Rights Literatures. Punishment & Society, 20(1), 73-91. [Access it here]

BOOKS/BOOK CHAPTERS/EDITED COLLECTIONS/REPORTS

Gibson-Light, Michael. (2017). “Classification Struggles in Semi-Formal and Precarious Work: Lessons from Inmate Labor and Cultural Production.” In Arne L. Kalleberg & Steven P. Vallas (Eds.), Precarious Work: Research in the Sociology of Work(pp. 61-89). Bradford, UK: Emerald Publishing [More information here]

Longazel, Jamie. (2018). “Racing the Oven Bird: Criminalization, Rightlessness, and the Politics of Immigration.” In Mary Nell Trautner (Ed.), Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, & Law: Revisiting “The Oven Bird’s Song”(pp. 161-180). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. [More information here]

Phelps, Michelle S. (2018). “Mass Probation and Inequality: Race, Class, and Gender Disparities in Supervision and Revocation.” In Jeffrey T. Ulmer and Mindy Bradley (Eds.), Handbook on Punishment Decisions: Locations of Disparity (pp. 43-66). New York, NY: Routledge. [Access it here; More information here]

Savelsberg, Joachim J. (2018). “Criminology in the United States: Contexts, Institutions, and Knowledge in Flux.” In Ruth Ann Triplett (Ed.), The Wiley Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Criminology (pp. 437-452). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. [More information here]

Unger, Matthew P., Jean‐Philippe Crete, & George Pavlich. (2018). “Criminal Entryways in the Writing of Cesare Beccaria.” In Ruth Ann Triplett (Ed.), The Wiley Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Criminology (pp. 13-31). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. [More information here]

van Zyl Smit, Dirk, & Alessandro Corda. (2017). “American Exceptionalism in Parole Release and Supervision: A European Perspective.” In Kevin R. Reitz (Ed.), American Exceptionalism in Crime and Punishment(pp. 410-486). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.[More information here]

RECENTLY PUBLISHED WORKS

April 2018

ARTICLES

Aiello, Brittnie, & Jill McCorkel. (2017). “It Will Crush You Like a Bug”: Maternal Incarceration, Secondary Prisonization, and Children’s Visitation. Punishment & Society. DOI: 10.1177/1462474517697295. [Access it here]

Carlson, Jennifer. (2018). Legally Armed but Presumed Dangerous: An Intersectional Analysis of Gun Carry Licensing as a Racial/Gender Degradation Ceremony. Gender & Society, 32(2), 204-227. [Access it here]

Cooper, Jessica. Unruly Affects: Attempts at Control and All That Escapes from an American Mental Health Court. Cultural Anthropology, 33(1), 85-108. [Access it here] 

Crewe, B., Susie Hulley, & Serena Wright. (2017). “The Gendered Pains of Imprisonment.” British Journal of Criminology. DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azw088. [Access it here]

Hancock, Black Hawk, Bryan L. Sykes, & Anjuli Verma. (2018). The Problem of “Cameo Appearances” in Mixed-Methods Research: Implications for 21st-Century Ethnography. Sociological Perspectives,61(2), 314-334. [Access it here]

Hannah-Moffat, Kelly. (2018). Algorithmic Risk Governance: Big Data Analytics, Race and Information Activism in Criminal Justice Debates. Theoretical Criminology. DOI: 10.1177/1362480618763582. [Access it here]

Jiang, Jize. (2018, Forthcoming). Book Review: Breaking the Pendulum: The Long Struggle over Criminal Justice, by Philip Goodman, Joshua Page, and Michelle Phelps. Social & Legal Studies.

Jiang, Jize. (2018, In Press). Book Review: Nordic Nationalism and Penal Order: Walling the Welfare State, by Vanessa Barker. Theoretical Criminology. 

McCorkel, Jill. (2017). The Second Coming: Gender, Profit, and Carceral Drug Treatment. Journal of Contemporary Drug Problems, 44(4), 286-300. [Access it here]

Phelps, Michelle S. (2017). Discourses of Mass Probation: From Managing Risk to Ending Human Warehousing in Michigan. British Journal of Criminology. DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azx077. [Access it here]

Russell, Emma K. (2018). Punishment in a “Tolerant Society”: Interrogating Hate Crime Law Reform Discourse. Griffith Law Review, 26(3), 315-333. [Access it here]

Schept, Judah. (2018). Book Review: Big House on the Prairie: Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation, by John Eason. Punishment & Society. DOI: 10.1177/1462474518756596. [Access it here]

BOOKS/BOOK CHAPTERS/EDITED COLLECTIONS

Aviram, Hadar. (2018). “Gray is the New Orange: Older, Infirm Female Inmates and the Liminal Space between Human and Animal.” In Shirley A. Jackson & Laurie Gordy (Eds.), Caged Women: Incarceration, Representation, & Media. New York, NY: Routledge. [More information here]

Craig, Miltonette. (2018). “Education behind Bars: What Orange is the New BlackNeglects.” In Shirley A. Jackson & Laurie Gordy (Eds.), Caged Women: Incarceration, Representation, & Media. New York, NY: Routledge. [More information here]

Garland, David. (2018 Edition). Punishment and Welfare: A History of Penal Strategies. New Orleans, LA: Quid Pro Books. [More information here]

Kinney, Edith. (2018). “The Prison within the Prison: Solitary Confinement in Orange is the New Black.” In Shirley A. Jackson & Laurie Gordy (Eds.), Caged Women: Incarceration, Representation, & Media. New York, NY: Routledge. [More information here]

Schoenfeld, Heather. (2018). Building the Prison State: Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

If you would like your recently published book or article to be included in the next digest,

please send your citation information to Miltonette Craig (mocraig@fsu.edu) by May 31.