The P&S Digital Speaker Series

The Punishment and Society CRN launched a new digital speaker series in 2018 featuring our members' research. These are live talks and Q&As, originally hosted over YouTube and now hosted over zoom. Talks are typically about 45 minutes with 15-45 minutes of Q&A. Most talks are then archived on Youtube (links below) and available for later viewing. You can also check out our playlist of archived talks!


Archived Talks

  • Sarah Lageson, "Criminal Records as Big Data Commodity" (January 2018)
  • Alexandra Cox, "Trapped in a Vice: The Consequences of Confinement for Young People" (February 2018)
  • Fergus McNeill, "Pervasive Punishment: Experiencing and Representing 'Mass Supervision'" (March 2018)

  • Allison McKim, "Addicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Treatment in the Era of Mass Incarceration" (April 2018)
  • Chase Burton, "Machinery of Demons: Crime and the Uncanny Mind in the Nineteenth Century United States" (May 2018)
  • Michelle Phelps, "Governing Marginality: Coercion and Care in Probation Supervision" (October 2018)
  • Katharina Maier, “‘Mobilizing’ Prisoner Reentry Scholarship: Exploring the Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of Prisoner Reentry” (December 2018)
  • Philip Goodman, "‘Work Your Story’: Selective Flexible Disclosure (SFD), Stigma Management, and Getting a Job After Prison" (January 2019)
  • Liz Chiarello, "Shared Technology, Competing Logics: How Healthcare Providers And Law Enforcement Agents Use Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs To Combat Prescription Drug Abuse"  (March 2019)
  • Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan “'Ten Lashes upon her Naked Back': Criminalizing Poverty in the US, from the 18th Century to the Present" (May 2019) 
  • Hadar Aviram, "Yesterday’s Monsters" (March 2020)
  • Erin Hatton, "Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment" (April 2020)
  • Book Panel for Magnus Hörnqvist's The Pleasure of Punishment, featuring Vanessa Barker and Ron Levi (September 2021)
  • Book Panel for Reuben Miller's new book, Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration, featuring Susila Gurusami, Fergus McNeill, and Michael Walker (November 2021)
  • Gil Rothschild-Elyassi, "Reading Punishment with Du Bois" (January 2022)
  • Heather R. Hlavka and Sameena Mulla, "Bodies in Evidence: Race, Gender, and Science in Sexual Assault Adjudication" (February 2022)
  • Renan Araújo, "The Latin American Left Turn and the Neoliberal Penality Hypothesis: A Case Study of Pernambuco, Brazil" (April 2022)
  • Danielle Rudes, "Surviving Solitary: Researching Residents and Staff in Restricted Housing Units" (August 2022)
  • Rob Werth, "More than monsters: Penal imaginaries and the specter of the dangerous sex offender" (September 2022)
  • Amber Joy Powell, "'We Can’t Prove This Happened or it Didn’t Happen': Responding to Youth-Identified Sexual Threats in Juvenile Detention" (October 2022)
  • Brenden Beck, "Do Austerity Cuts Spare Police Budgets? Recessions and the Budgetary Shift from Social Services to Law Enforcement in U.S. Cities" (November 2022)
  • Santhi Leon and Maggie Buckridge, "‘I'm scared to death to try it on my own’: Using I-Poems to Capture the Complexities of Religious Support for People on the US Sex Offender Registry" (December 2022)
  • Andrew Jefferson, "The Unsurprising Weaponization of the Criminal Justice System in Post-Coup Myanmar" (January 2023)
  • Sarah Beth Kaufman, "The Performative Imperative of Death Penalty Sentencing: Findings from an Ethnography" (February 2023)
  • Tasseli McKay, "The Time Is (Never) Right for Reparations" (March 2023)
  • Justin Iverson, "Cops or Coaches? The Statutory Role of Juvenile Probation Officers in a Transformative Age" (April 2023)
  • Adriana Romero-Sanchez, "‘Peace Without Impunity’: Narratives of Punishment in the Context of the FARC’s Transitional Justice System in Colombia" (May 2023)
  • Coming Up!

  • The schedule for the 2023-2024 academic year will be posted in July or August 2023.