New Directions in Critical Criminology Conference

Datum/Zeit
Date(s) - 06/05/2016 - 07/05/2016
Ganztägig

Veranstaltungsort
University of Tennessee

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The New Directions in Critical Criminology conference will be held at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, May 6-7, 2016. Sponsored by UT’s Department of Sociology, this important conference will juxtapose issues of race, gender, sexualities, nationalities, borders, cultures, identities, power, and resistance against crime, harm, justice, injustice, and the field of criminology. The conference will address how critical criminology can inform a more just and less harmful world. Toward those ends we welcome both young and established scholars as well as activists to attend and bring ideas and energy.

Keynote speakers include:
Jeff Ferrell, James Kilgore, Yasser Payne, Tony Platt, Claire Renzetti, Brett Story, and others.

Registration is free.

Please send your 150-200 word abstract for an individual paper or a panel, as well as any inquiries, to criticalcriminology@utk.edu.

Submissions must be received by February 1, 2016.

Themed panels and individual papers might focus on any of the following topics:

• Activism and public criminology
• Alternative and emergent forms of justice
• Border criminologies
• Colonialism
• Convict criminology, subaltern and underdog perspectives
• Critical perspectives on crime data and methods
• Critical histories of criminology/criminal justice
• Critical Race Theories and criminology/criminal justice
• Cultural criminology
• Death penalty
• Discursive, narrative, and visual criminology
• Disproportionate minority contact
• Drugs, drug markets, and violence: public health and other social responses
• Emotions, affect and justice
• Environmental harm and green criminology
• Gangs and the social construction of gangs
• Gendered, sexualized, and raced harm
• Harm to nonhuman animals
• Latin@ criminology
• Legal violence
• Mass incarceration, carceral regimes, their effects, and abolition
• Minority perspectives – voice of color thesis
• Police violence
• Power and powerlessness
• Premature and slow death in criminal justice
• Race, crime and justice
• Racialized oppression
• Rights and rightlessness
• School to prison pipeline
• State harm and state-corporate crime
• Street participatory action research
• Surveillance and risk
• Torture
• Wars on drugs, gangs, and immigrants