FRIDAY 5 MAY (Center for the Study of Law and Society, 2240 Piedmont Avenue) -
Welcome and opening remarks: Kim Voss (Chair, Sociology Department, UC-Berkeley), Loïc Wacquant, Bruce Western
9:30-11am, Session 1 - SCANNING THE PENAL STATE
Pieter Spierenburg(History, Erasmus University and Jurisprudence and Social Policy, UC Berkeley): From Community Control to the Penal State: The Ironies of History
Mona Lynch (Justice Studies, San Jose State): Transitioning to the Mass Penal State: Lessons from Arizona
Joshua Guetzkow (Sociology, Harvard University): The Changing Governmentality of Criminal Justice and Welfare Policies, 1960-1996
11-11:30am, Break and refreshments
11:30-1pm: Session 2 - SENTENCING, SANCTION, AND THE LAW
Franklin Zimring (Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley): Reexamining the Death Penalty: Capital Punishment in the Reform of the Model Penal Code
Traci Schlesinger(Sociology, Princeton): How Sentencing Fed the Prison Boom: The Effects of Determinate Sentencing and Release Policies on Sentence Length and Time Served
Kellie Bryant (Jurisprudence and Social Policy, UC Berkeley): When Power and Responsibility Collide: An Analysis of the Conflicting Role of the State Behind Bars in Johnson v. California
1-2pm, Lunch break
2-4 pm, Session 3 - SOCIAL AND SYMBOLIC BEARINGS OF IMPRISONMENT
Loïc Wacquant (Sociology, UC Berkeley and Centre de sociologie européenne-Paris): What is the Penal State and Why It Matters Today
John Eason (Sociology, University of Chicago): Squid in its Own Ink: Considering Race, Inequality, and Punishment in the Expansion of the Prison in Rural America
Chrysanthi Leon (Jurisprudence and Social Policy, UC Berkeley): Forensic Psychiatry Imagines the Sex Offender: Lombroso and De River
Gretchen Purser (Sociology, UC Berkeley): Cheap Work: The Use and Abuse of Parolees in the Day Labor Industry
4-4:30 pm, Coffee and doughnut break
4:30-6pm, Session 4 –PUNISHMENT POLITICS AND ACTIVISM
Jonathan Simon (Boalt Hall School of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, UC Berkeley): Subversion and Penal States
Damon Mayrl (Sociology, UC Berkeley): A Movement in Theory? Resistance and Criticism in the Contemporary Prison Abolition Movement
Mark Toney (Sociology, UC Berkeley): Birth of a Movement? Activists Mobilizing for the Rights of Ex-Felons
Jodie Lawston (Sociology, UC San Diego): Stark Contrast: Dealing with Power and Privilege Among the California Coalition for Women Prisoners
-SATURDAY 6 MAY (The Blumer Room, 402 Barrows) -
10am-12 noon, Session 5 - RECONFIGURATIONS OF POLICING
Alexandra Murphy (Sociology, Princeton): Policing Ourselves: Law and Order in the Contemporary Black American Ghetto
Alice Goffman (Sociology, Princeton):Family and Friendship on the Run in West Philadelphia
Kevin Gerard Karpiak (Anthropology, UC Berkeley): Implementing Police Reform in Sarkozy’s France
Brian Lande(Sociology, UC Berkeley): Bodies of Force: A Field Report on the Fabrication of Cops
12-1pm, Lunch break
1-3pm, Session 6 - INCARCERATION AND INEQUALITY
Bruce Western (Sociology, Princeton): Punishment and Inequality in America in the Era of the Prison Boom
Rucker C. Johnson and Stephen Raphael(Goldman Public Policy School, UC Berkeley): Male Incarceration and Racial Disparities in AIDS Infection Rates
Michael Massoglia(Sociology, University of Minnesota): Unhealthy Conditions: The Impact of Incarceration on Racial Disparities in Mental and Physical Health After Release
Chris Wildeman (Sociology, Princeton): Paternal Incarceration, the Prison Boom, and the Concentration of Childhood Disadvantage
3-3:30 pm, Coffee and doughnut break
3:30-4:30pm, Session 7 - PENALITY AS CIVIC SIGNIFICATION
David Garland (Sociology and Law, NYU): American Capital Punishment: A Theoretical Problem for Sociological Analysis
Amy Lerman(Political Science, UC Berkeley): Policy Feedback on a Captive Audience: How Prison Cultures Shape Civic Attitudes and Behavior
4:30-5pm: General discussion
