New Directions in Critical Criminology

Program

All events take place in Haslam Business Building.

Friday, May 06, 2016

8:30am	Check in, continental breakfast - ROOM 501
9:00-9:15am	Welcome and Opening Statement, Lois Presser, University of Tennessee - ROOM 501
9:15-10:15am	Featured Speaker, Tony Platt, University of California at Berkeley, "Revisioning Critical Criminology" - ROOM 501
10:30am-12:00pm	Panel 1: Criminalization, Marginalization, and Control - ROOM 401 Stay Away Orders and the Right to the City Michael J. King and Emily Brissette, Bridgewater State University The Criminalization of HIV Nondisclosure in Canada – Sexual Risk and Responsibility as Discursive Strategies to Regulate People Living with HIV/AIDS Spencer Go, University of Ottawa The Historical Architectural Symbology of British Prisons Ellie Slee, University of Birmingham Constructing Whiteness: Identity and Imagery in the Legal Battle of State of Florida v. Casey Anthony Faraasa Lawrence, Saint Mary's University Facilitator: Patrick Grzanka, University of Tennessee Panel 2: Policing the Community? - ROOM 403 The Myth of 'Racial Profiling': Abolish the Police Micol Seigel, Indiana University Critical Ethnographic Reflections from Baltimore and Ferguson: Contextualizing the Absence of Criminology Jason Williams, Farleigh Dickinson University (White) Man's Best Friend? Police Dogs and the Production of the "Color Line" Tyler Wall, Eastern Kentucky University Community Cages: The (Neo) Liberal Politics of Local Carceral Expansion Judah Schept, Eastern Kentucky University Facilitator: Charlene Shroulote-Durán , Lincoln Memorial University Panel 3: Carceral Regimes - ROOM 423 Capitalizing on Punishment: Norbert Elias and American Prison Privatization Kyle Letteney, University of Tennessee Power and Pain in Penal Architecture: Contortions and Creations Jordan Frazier, Eastern Kentucky University Race, Exonerations, and Conservative Activism Against the Death Penalty in the United States Hannah Summers, University of Tennessee Facilitator: James Kilgore, University of Illinois
12:00-12:30pm	Lunch - ROOM 501
12:30-1:30pm	Featured Speaker, Claire Renzetti, University of Kentucky, "Is Feminist Critical Criminology an Oxymoron?" - ROOM 501
1:30pm-3:00pm	Panel 4: Feminist Criminology - ROOM 401 "My Pain Grows as My Life Dwindles": Women, Poetry, and Resisting State Violence in Taliban Controlled Afghanistan Victoria E. Collins, Eastern Kentucky University Doing Gender and the Sterilization of Companion Animals Jeremy J. Smith, University of Tennessee When Rural Men's Work Disappears: Implications for Rural Women Experiencing Abuse in Intimate Relationships Amanda Hall-Sanchez, West Virginia University The Reproduction of Gender Privilege in the Popular Construction of Sibling Incest Jessica West, University of Tennessee Police Perceptions, Attitudes and Interactions: The Case of Racialized Indoor Sex Workers in Canada Menaka Raguparan, Carleton University Facilitator: Regina Benedict, University of Tennessee Panel 5: Youth In/Justice - ROOM 403 Punishing Latina/o Youth: School Justice, Fairness, Order, Dropping Out, and Gender Disparities Anthony A. Peguero, Virginia Tech; Jennifer Bondy, Virginia Tech; and Zahra Shekarkhar, Fayetteville State University Critical Perspectives on Youth Justice Alexandra Cox, SUNY New Paltz Disrupting the Trauma to Prison Pipeline Through YPAR Gabby Falzone, University of California at Berkeley Facilitator: Wendy Bach, University of Tennessee Panel 6: Police Data, Police Representations - ROOM 423 Using "The Counted" to Study Police-Related Killings: What You Need To Know Stephanie Bohon and Anagha Uppal, University of Tennessee Blue Lives Matter Online: A Critical Discourse Analysis Veronica Nelson, University of Tennessee State Crime: Special Victims Unit: Nationwide Analysis of Untested Sexual Assault Kits Kelly Faust, Ohio University Facilitator: Gale Iles, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
3:15-4:45pm	Panel 7: Constructions of Violence and the Tools of Violence - ROOM 401 On Black Spaces: Death, Denial, Exorcism and Erasure Travis Linnemann, Eastern Kentucky University "Don't Shoot, Won't Shoot": A Qualitative Look at Gun Discourse Among Black Detroiters Terressa Benz, Oakland University White Domestic Terrorism, the State and Prospects for Social Justice Michael J. King, Bridgewater State University Facilitator: Tricia Hepner, University of Tennessee Panel 8: Abolishing the Police: Theory and Practice - ROOM 403 "Abolish the Police!" Looking at the Forces That Changed the Common Sense on Law Enforcement Luis Fernandez, Northern Arizona University "We Don't Need the Police to Keep Us Safe": Identifying Abolitionist Alternatives to State Protection Meghan McDowell, Old Dominion University In the Service of Inequality: The Origins of Modern Policing Alex S. Vitale, Brooklyn College Facilitator: Tony Platt , University of California at Berkeley Panel 9: Narrative Criminology - ROOM 423 Lost Voices of the Carceral State: The Importance of Family Narratives and History Donald L. Kurtz, Kansas State University Stories of Use and Abuse: Drug-Taking in Appalachia Kendahl Granger and Carissa Stacy, Eastern Kentucky University Moving Beyond Truth and Validity in Narrative Criminology Ashley Barnes and Dustin Crane, Eastern Kentucky University Two Narratives of One Habitual Offender Carlene Mallory and Tyler Shuplinkov, Eastern Kentucky University Facilitator: Avi Brisman, Eastern Kentucky University
5:00-6:00pm	Reception - ROOM 501
6:00-7:00pm	Featured Speaker, Yasser Payne, University of Delaware, "The People's Report: Reframing Opportunity and Activism in and with the Streets of Wilmington, Delaware" - ROOM 203

Saturday, May 07, 2016

8:30am	Continental breakfast - ROOM 501
9:00-10:100am	Featured Speaker, James Kilgore, University of Illinois, "#Opposemassincarceration is Trending: How Do We Stop the Train of Piecemeal Reform?" - ROOM 203
10:15-11:45am	Panel 10: Environmental Harm -- Corporate and State Power - ROOM 401 Toxic Community: Exploring Corporate Constructions of Manganese Pollution in Marietta, Ohio Holly Ningard, University of Tennessee Nemo's Dead: Green-Cultural Criminology and the Treadmill of Production Jordan Mazurek, Eastern Kentucky University Environmental Crime: From Conflicts to Transformations Randall Amster, Georgetown University Facilitator: Tamra Gilbertson, University of Tennessee Panel 11: In the Shadow of the Prison - ROOM 403 Breaking the Rules the Right Way: Self-Governance, Resistance and Reproduction Within Parole Robert Werth, Rice University Fierce Mamas Rising: Navigating the Terrain of Motherhood as Formerly Incarcerated/Convicted Women Grace Gámez, American Friends Service Committee - Arizona The Employment Journey: Gender, Race, and Homelessness Michelle Christian and Enkeshi Thom, University of Tennessee The Conditional Expertise of Formerly Incarcerated People: Re-Entry Policymaking in San Francisco Julie Setele, Webster University Facilitator: Landon Bevier, University of Tennessee Panel 12: Public Criminology - ROOM 423 Intellectual Activism through Radical Pedagogy and Public Criminology Tammy Castle, James Madison University; Carl Root, Eastern Kentucky University Public Criminology: Feasibility and Challenge to Institutional Expectations Hoan N. Bui, University of Tennessee Injustice While Seeking Social Justice: Strategies for the Activist Scholar Donna Selman, Indiana State University; Emily Troshynski, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Facilitator: Beth Easterling, Mary Baldwin College
12:00-12:30pm	Lunch - ROOM 501
12:30-2:15pm	Featured Event, Brett Story, CUNY Graduate Center, Original film: The Prison Landscape Project - ROOM 203
2:30-4:00pm	Panel 13: Cultural Criminology - ROOM 401 "Don't Let Them Kill You on Some Dirty Roadway": Survival, Aggression, and the Culture of Modern American Policing Caitlin J. Lynch, Old Dominion University A Multimodal Analysis of the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival Website: A Cultural Criminology of Peace- and Community-Building Katie Highbaugh, University of Tennessee Defining Appalachia: Film Representation of the West Virginia Coal Wars Stephen T. Young, Old Dominion University Respectable Crimesploitation Paul Kaplan, San Diego State University; Daniel LaChance, Emory University Facilitator: Mark Hamm, Indiana State University Panel 14: Restorative and Transformative Justice - ROOM 403 Extending the Circle: Exploring the Feasibility of the Circles of Support and Accountability Model Alan D. Brown, Southern Connecticut State University Simple Opportunity vs. Genuine Access: Youth Court Programs in Tennessee Denise Bentley, Tennessee Youth Court Program The Role of Peacemaking in Penal Abolition Harold E. Pepinsky, Indiana University Facilitator: Randall Amster, Georgetown University Panel 15: State Harm, Structural and "Collateral" - ROOM 423 How Politics Sustains Violence in Chicago Robert Vargas, University of Wisconsin in Madison Drug Law Enforcement and Social Disorganization Theory: The Disruptive Effects of the War on Drugs Ruben Ortiz, Bridgewater State University The Effects of State Terrorism, Globalization, Capital Accumulation, and Agency in Oromia and Ethiopia Asafa Jalata, University of Tennessee Legitimation of United States Drone Warfare: A Critical Discourse Analysis Douglas Oeser, University of Tennessee Facilitator: Joshua Inwood, University of Tennessee
4:15-5:15pm	Featured Speaker, Jeff Ferrell, Texas Christian University, "Radical Engagement and Post-methodological Possibility" - ROOM 501
5:30pm-6:00pm	Concluding Comments, University of Tennessee criminologists - ROOM 501

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