Justin Lucas Sola (he/him)
Email: solaj@uci.edu
Currently: Doctoral Candidate, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine
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Orlaith Rice (she/her)
Email: orlaithbr@hotmail.com
Currently: Doctoral Candidate, Sutherland School of Law, University College
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BA Criminology, University College Cork;
MSc Criminology, University College Dublin
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Email: fenglish@umass.edu
Currently: Doctoral Candiate,
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Faith M. Deckard
Currently: Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
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MA in Sociology, University of Texas at Austin;
BS in Biology, Trinity University
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Isabel Arriagada
Email: isabelarriagada@gmail.com
Currently: Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota
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JD. Universidad de Chile (2012)
MA in Sociology. Universidad Católica de Chile (2015).
MA in Sociology. University of Minnesota (2018)
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Currently: Doctoral Candidate,
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General areas of interest & expertise: fines and other monetary sanctions, spatial social control/carceral geography, surveillance, abolition (broadly construed), law enforcement/police/policing, risk calculations (across types of sentencing and punishment), philosophy of punishment/justifications of punishment, people undergoing punishment (or who have experienced punishment) (e.g., people in prison, on probation, undergoing reentry), staff who carry out punishment or work in state penal agencies (e.g., correctional officers, probation officers, etc.)
Specific topics, angels, and theoretical approaches: Ethnicity, race, and racism, treatment and discrimination of minoritized populations, Critical Race Theory, Foucault, Marxist theory, Bourdieu, Punishment (broadly construed) & Inequality, Social Theory, Social Justice
Methodological expertise: ethnography/ethnographic methods/participant observation, interviews, qualitative methods, archival and document-based research
Geographical areas of expertise: US
Biography: I am a PhD candidate in sociology at University of Minnesota and work in the areas of punishment and society, sociology of law, critical criminology, policing, and social movements. My dissertation, "Police Misconduct, Monetary Sanctions, and Insurance Models in the Modern Police Accountability Era," examines the role that insurance and risk management strategies play in regulating police departments and individual officers and reducing misconduct. My dissertation creates two new subareas in the sociology of punishment by: 1) extending the “monetary sanctions” literature to examine the costs stemming from misconduct committed by carceral state actors and institutions like policing; and 2) inverting the classic “new penology” paradigm to analyze modern efforts to manage aggregates of dangerous criminal justice categories (e.g., violent police officers) based on risk profiles and misconduct histories. My sole-authored article recently published in Law & Social Inquiry analyzes the innovative but ultimately unsuccessful 2016 ballot campaign of the Committee for Professional Policing, a police accountability group in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which attempted to make Minneapolis the first city nationwide to require police to carry professional liability insurance. Currently, I am co-authoring a report examining all the financial costs stemming from George Floyd’s murder. My teaching interests include social movements, sociological theory, the criminal legal system, and qualitative methods.
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Sara Gottlieb (she/her)
Email: sgottlieb@ubalt.edu
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Education:
JD, cum laude, Boston College Law School, 2008
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Email: emamet@princeton.edu
Currently: Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer, School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Education: Ph.D., Political Science, Duke University, 2022
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Specific topics, angels, and theoretical approaches: DuBois, Punishment (broadly construed) & Politics, History of Punishment (broadly construed), Social Theory
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Email: curry192@umn.edu
Currently: Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, University of Minnesota
Education:
Master of Arts, Sociology, University of Minnesota, 2019.
Master of Arts, Sociology, University of Arkansas, 2016.
Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, Criminal Justice, and Psychology, 2014.
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General areas of interest & expertise: criminal law, penal reform(s), abolition (broadly construed), criminal courts (processing and sentencing, both lower and appellate), staff who carry out punishment or work in state penal agencies (e.g., correctional officers, probation officers, etc.), volunteers or other non-state actors who work with people experiencing punishment or who have experienced punishment, or staff in non-profit organizations catering to punished people (e.g., penal voluntary sector, medical and educational workers, etc.)
Specific topics, angels, and theoretical approaches: Critical Race Theory, Bourdieu, Punishment (broadly construed) & Inequality, Social Justice
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Biography: Caity Curry (they/them) is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of Minnesota. Caity uses qualitative methods to investigate how the criminal legal system exacerbates and legitimizes racial and class inequities, focusing specifically on how legal professionals and impacted community members experience and resist mass criminalization in their daily lives.
Their dissertation examines the role of public defenders in criminal justice reform and transformation, using a multi-method case study of Gideon’s Promise (GP), an Atlanta-based public defense organization that trains defenders to resist mass incarceration. Their forthcoming article in Law & Social Inquiry, “Public Defender Contestation and Compliance in Southern Courtrooms,” is based on 42 interviews with GP-trained attorneys in the South. Connecting research on courtroom workgroups and cause lawyering, this paper describes how GP aims to train public defenders to engage in resistance lawyering, using their skills and client relationship-building to obstruct, resist, and transform criminal courts.
Caity’s other research includes work with Minnesota organizations that seek to dismantle mass criminalization and support people with criminal records including All Square, Minnesota Justice Research Center, and Children of Incarcerated Caregivers. Caity has a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Arkansas and an M.A. from the University of Minnesota.
Email: cpackard@wisc.edu
Currently: Doctoral Candidate, Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Twitter: @chiarapack
General areas of interest & expertise: fines and other monetary sanctions, crime policy/penal policy, criminal courts (processing and sentencing, both lower and appellate), philosophy of punishment/justifications of punishment, people undergoing punishment (or who have experienced punishment) (e.g., people in prison, on probation, undergoing reentry)
Specific topics, angels, and theoretical approaches: Ethnicity, race, and racism, treatment and discrimination of minoritized populations, Punishment (broadly construed) & Inequality, Punishment (broadly construed) & Politics, Social Justice
Methodological expertise: statistics/quantitative methods/econometrics/big data/machine learning/AI, ethnography/ethnographic methods/participant observation, interviews, qualitative methods
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Biography: Chiara C. Packard is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research explores the political and social processes that shape punishment, and how punishment, in turn, reproduces inequality. Her work has won several awards and been published in peer-reviewed journals, including Law & Social Inquiry and Violence Against Women. Chiara’s dissertation project specifically draws on twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork in two midwestern District Attorney’s offices to investigate how prosecutors make decisions about charging, plea-bargaining, and sentencing recommendations. This project has been supported by the American Sociological Association Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (ASA DDRIG) and the Institute for Research on Poverty Dissertation Research Fellowship.
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Email: gbd874@vols.utk.edu
Currently: Doctoral Candidate, Sociology, University of Tennessee
Education:
- 2024 (anticipated), PhD The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Department of Sociology; Critical Criminology|Women, Gender, and Sexuality|Social Theory;
- 2020, MA The University of Tennessee, Department of Sociology;
- 2016, BA The University of Tennessee, Department of Sociology
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General areas of interest & expertise: prisons, jails, and other carceral facilities, death penalty, surveillance, security, penal reform(s), abolition (broadly construed), restorative justice, other or non-CJ alternatives to punishment/system processing, law enforcement/police/policing, immigration control/enforcement, international tribunals for war crimes and international crimes/truth and reconciliation commissions/transitional justice, philosophy of punishment/justifications of punishment, representations of punishment in culture/entertainment/news, people undergoing punishment (or who have experienced punishment) (e.g., people in prison, on probation, undergoing reentry), staff who carry out punishment or work in state penal agencies (e.g., correctional officers, probation officers, etc.), volunteers or other non-state actors who work with people experiencing punishment or who have experienced punishment, or staff in non-profit organizations catering to punished people (e.g., penal voluntary sector, medical and educational workers, etc.)
Specific topics, angels, and theoretical approaches: Women, gender and sexism, treatment and discrimination of women, Feminist theories, Masculinity/masculinities studies, Ethnicity, race, and racism, treatment and discrimination of minoritized populations, Critical Race Theory, Homophobia and treatment/discrimination against LGBTQ+ populations, Treatment/discrimination of differently abled or disabled or aging populations; disease, death, and punishment, Foucault, DuBois, Marxist theory, Bourdieu, Punishment (broadly construed) & Inequality, Punishment (broadly construed) & Politics, Punishment (broadly construed) & Public Opinion, Punishment (broadly construed) & Culture, History of Punishment (broadly construed), Decolonial Criminology/Sociology, Social Theory, Access to Justice, Social Justice
Methodological expertise: ethnography/ethnographic methods/participant observation, interviews, survey research, qualitative methods, participatory action research, archival and document-based research
Geographical areas of expertise: US (Appalachia)
Biography: Vivian Swayne is a fourth year PhD candidate in sociology, concentrating in criminology with certificates in social theory and women, gender and sexuality studies. Her main areas of interest are policing, sexuality, and culture with publications in the Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research and Current Perspectives in Social Theory. She is currently writing her dissertation, which is an analytical tour of murals around the world that both reproduce and refuse cultural reproductions of police power. Swayne’s dissertation is informed by her role as Project Manager for Abolition Now!: Digital Archive, a carefully curated online space and database built for movement artists and cultural organizers featuring original art, study guides, and documentary interviews. Additionally, the California Institute of Integral Studies selected Swayne as a Sexuality Fellow to help write a databank on sexuality discourse across social media. Other research projects central to Swayne’s scholarship include collaborative work investigating police calls for service in the South, community listening projects about police and school safety, and arts based research about Southern queer identity. Swayne currently serves as the Newsletter Editor for the American Sociological Association’s Section on Sex and Gender, a position she has held since 2019. Swayne is certified and experienced teaching in person and online for courses such as Social Problems and Social Justice, Introduction to Sociology, Criminal Justice, Social Inequalities, and Gender in Society. She is a former residential counselor and has experience working with trauma survivors and the criminal legal system.
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Email: smadarbn@uw.edu
Currently: Lecturer, Affiliate Faculty,
Law, Societies and Justice Department; Jackson School of International Studies; Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
University of Washington, Seattle
Education: PhD. Law, Tel-Aviv University;
Mst. International Human Rights Law, University of Oxford (Distinction);
LLB Tal-Aviv University (JD equivalent)
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Twitter: @Smadarbn1
General areas of interest & expertise: prisons, jails, and other carceral facilities, death penalty, spatial social control/carceral geography, security, crime policy/penal policy, penal trends/penal change (generally or across multiple categories), criminal courts (processing and sentencing, both lower and appellate), (other/non-criminal) courts, international tribunals for war crimes and international crimes/truth and reconciliation commissions/transitional justice, people undergoing punishment (or who have experienced punishment) (e.g., people in prison, on probation, undergoing reentry), staff who carry out punishment or work in state penal agencies (e.g., correctional officers, probation officers, etc.)
Specific topics, angels, and theoretical approaches: Ethnicity, race, and racism, treatment and discrimination of minoritized populations, Foucault, Punishment (broadly construed) & Inequality, Punishment (broadly construed) & Politics, Decolonial Criminology/Sociology, Political Sociology, Organizational Theory, Historical Sociology, Social Theory
Methodological expertise: interviews, qualitative methods, archival and document-based research
Geographical areas of expertise: US, Middle East
Biography: I am a socio-legal scholar of human rights, criminal justice, international law, and armed conflict. I specialize in punishment and inequality, penal regimes in the context of colonialism and conflict, military law and incarceration in Israel/Palestine, US military commissions, and the legal profession.
I am a lecturer at the Law, societies and Justice Department and an affiliate faculty in the Jackson School of International Studies, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, University of Washington, Seattle. My first book manuscript is titled Citizen-Enemies: Military Courts and the Construction of Citizenship in Israel/Palestine. I received a Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar grant for my second book project, The Carceral State in Conflict: Between Reconciliation and Radicalization.
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