Red Ties and Orange Jumpsuits
@jananiu.bsky.social's new #Socius article draws on interviews with formerly #incarcerated #Americans to demonstrate this group’s #political heterogeneity, specifically regarding Trump’s presidency and meaning for the nation.
Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...
Why do so many formerly incarcerated people support President Trump when his policies obviously harm them? In my new (open access!) article in @sociusjournal.bsky.social, I draw on 44 interviews to argue that it’s because of what he symbolizes: their own hopes for redemption. doi.org/10.1177/2378...
Thank you so much to @jananiu.bsky.social for her talk in our lab meeting yesterday! Lots of in-depth qual data on the harms of imprisonment, including for the families of incarcerated people, and related topics like homelessness. Very much appreciate the chance to think together.
📢 Coming in January, the #International Handbook in #Sensory #Criminology published with Routledge, and edited with fantastic colleagues @warrcrim.bsky.social @jananiu.bsky.social and @kanupriya.bsky.social. We'll be posting taster pieces nearer the drop at www.sensorycriminology.com
Really proud of the team effort on this new article. We argue that, well before a conviction, people with pending charges are transformed into “incipient carceral citizens” who must reckon with uncertainty and a constricted social and legal landscape. doi.org/10.1177/1462...
If anybody ever accuses me of not being American again, I will tell them about the time I went to the Bahamas during spring break. @catherinetan.bsky.social and I were invited to questionable, adults-only events. We read books and went to bed early instead.
“The shift from forced labor… laid the groundwork for the contemporary reliance on incarcerated people to fill labor shortages, not just in prisons but in industries like agriculture”
7 in 10 US farmworkers are foreign born; 40+% are undocumented
The Trump deportations will be BIG for prison labor
Criminology people with interest in experiences of families of people in prison!
I am keen to finally get this idea moving: an edited collection of chapters on stigma. Quite a lot to explore and lots of policy interest. Get in touch and pls share!
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The ASA, American Federation of Teachers @AFT, and AFT-Maryland, facilitated by @DemocracyForward, have filed a complaint today in federal court in Maryland challenging the “Dear Colleague Letter” published by the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights.
“Chaos” and “chaotic times” doing a lot of euphemistic heavy lifting in my emails.
Look, to fire all non-white people, they have to first be able to tell us apart. We can win this.
Dead. People probably out there worried he’s about to proselytize them into Christianity 😂😂.
Here's my hot take of the day re: city-led innovations in non-police alternative responses/responders -- they're important bc they reduce CRIMINALIZATION not just whether or not they reduce "crime." Reducing police contact, reducing arrests for low-level offenses is a win.
Now more than ever, as the world falls apart, we need to listen to the experts. Read @catherinetan.bsky.social’s new op-ed on what happens when the healthcare system fails us.
NIJ webpage notice that all open grant opportunities have been cancelled.
Well that's not fucking good.
NIJ has cancelled all open grant opportunities.
I think people’s minds short-circuit so badly when they see “ethnic” names that they forget to cite these scholars. (Absolutely, 100% not talking about me, obviously.)
Tomorrow is the first day of Spring semester. Once again, in my "Introduction to Sociology," I am sharing one of my favorite slides. Even though we are covering a lot of the classics, sociologists are no longer a bunch of old white dudes with beards.
I am the FIFTH reviewer for an article, brought in post-R&R after 4 people had already reviewed it once. Poor author. Poor reviewers, whose labor I am about to replicate. Poor me, who had no idea I would be reviewer #5 when I said yes to more work.
Reading about how nearly 90% of editorial boards across all Criminology journals are white. And we could probably list most of the other 10% by name if we tried because there are so few possibilities 😂. Brutal.
Incarcerated people make up a third of CA’s firefighting force, earning “between $2.90 and $5 a day … slightly more when actively fighting a fire.”
When compared to professionals: 4x more likely to be injured. 8x more likely to suffer from smoke inhalation.
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People must realize that promises of early January deadlines were made in December, when I thought January was 50 years away.
So. Many. Pine needles. They’ll be there until next Christmas no matter what.
Yes, because incarceration has always been about practicality in America, right? Super practical to systematically destroy entire families and communities. Very sensible.
I didn't publish as much as I hoped to in 2024 (what else is new?) but this one was fun to write and I think the best thing I've written in a while.
Shout out to all the local Pakistani and Chinese restaurants and their staff who will be working Christmas.
As the manager at Royal Kabob told me, "Brother, we're always open. Even on the Day of Judgement, we'll be open."
Respect.
personally i think it's very cool that when you are poor and suspected of a crime you get thrown in jail while they figure out if you did it, while if you're rich and powerful you get to keep your job, get nominated to AG and make $ on cameo while people decide whether to publicly accuse you or not
I can’t seem to DM you, but happy to send a copy via email!
Ending the year with a new article! I explore how family members of men who have engaged in violence draw on narrative techniques found in fictional literature to make sense of their loved ones’ actions. Criminologists, the humanities have so much to offer us!
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