Punishment: The U.S. Record Conference at The New School -- Speakers

Punishment: The U.S. Record

A Social Research Conference at The New School took place on Thursday, November 30 and Friday, December 1, 2006

The conference examined the foundations of our ideas of punishment, explored the social effects of current practices and searched for viable alternatives to our carceral state.

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GORDON BAZEMORE is currently Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Director of the Community Justice Institute at Florida Atlantic University. His research has focused on juvenile justice and youth policy, restorative justice, crime victims, corrections, and community policing. Dr. Bazemore's recent publications appear in Justice Quarterly, Crime and Delinquency, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and the American Behavioral Scientist. He is the author of Juvenile Justice Reform and Restorative Justice: Building Theory and Policy from Practice (with Mara Schiff, Willan Publishing), and has completed two edited books, Restorative Juvenile Justice: Repairing the Harm of Youth Crime (co-edited with Lode Walgrave, Criminal Justice Press) and Restorative and Community Justice: Cultivating Common Ground for Victims, Communities and Offenders (co-edited with Mara Schiff, Anderson Publishing). Dr. Bazemore is currently Principal Investigator of the Balanced and Restorative Justice Project funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

STEPHEN B. BRIGHT is President and Senior Counsel at the Southern Center for Human Rights, a non-governmental organization that provides legal representation to people facing the death penalty and to prisoners in cases involving claims of cruel and unusual conditions of confinement. He was director of the Center for 23 years. He is a visiting lecturer at both Yale and Harvard Law Schools. His work and that of the Center have been featured in two books, Proximity to Death by William McFeely (Norton, 1999) and Finding Life on Death Row by Kayta Lezin (Northeastern University Press, 1999). He received the American Bar Association's Thurgood Marshall Award in 1998. Previously, he was a legal services attorney and public defender.

TODD CLEAR is Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York. He has received awards from the American Probation and Parole Association, the International Association of Community Corrections and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges for his work. During 2001, he was President of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and Vice President of the American Society of Criminology. Among his books are Controlling the Offender in the Community (with V. O'Leary), Harm in American Penology, The Community Justice Ideal (with David Karp) and American Corrections (with G. Cole).

JOHN J. DONOHUE III is the Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law. He is an economist and lawyer who has used large-scale statistical studies to estimate the impact of law and public policy in a wide range of areas from civil rights and employment discrimination law to school funding and crime control. Before joining Yale Law School, he was a chaired professor at both Northwestern Law School and Stanford Law School. He recently published Employment Discrimination: Law and Theory. Among his major articles are: Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate (with Justin Wolfers), Shooting Down the 'More Guns, Less Crime' Hypothesis (with Ian Ayres), and The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime (with Steven Levitt).

MARK DOW is author of American Gulag: Inside US Immigration Prisons (California 2004) and co-editor with David R. Dow of Machinery of Death: The Reality of America's Death Penalty Regime (Routledge 2002). He has written about topics including Guantanamo, U.S. policy in Haiti, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and prisons for Haiti Progress, Prison Legal News, New Politics, The Miami Herald, Los Angeles Times, The Progressive, and www.nthposition.com. His poems, translations, and reviews have appeared in www.poesia.com, Threepenny Review, Boston Review, Pequod, Conjunctions, LIT, and www.wordforword.info. Dow is an adjunct lecturer in English at Hunter College and teaches a course on Emily Dickinson at the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies.

DAVID GARLAND is Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at New York University. He previously taught at Edinburgh University's School of Law. He is the founding editor of the interdisciplinary journal, Punishment & Society. His publications include Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory (1990), Punishment and Welfare: The History of Penal Strategies (1985), and The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society (University of Chicago Press, 2001).

ELIZABETH GAYNES is Executive Director of the Osborne Association, a nonprofit organization that provides educational, employment, treatment and family services to individuals affected by incarceration. Ms. Gaynes is an attorney who began her legal career as a criminal defense and became an associate at the Pretrial Services Resource Center in Washington DC. Ms. Gaynes in the Chair of the Board of Directors of OPEN Children, an Ethiopia-based children's charity, and is on the Board of Directors of Families and Corrections Network. She was nominated with her daughter for the 2004 World's Children Prize for their work defending the rights of children with parents in prison.

NANCY GERTNER is a Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She has taught at the law schools of Harvard, Boston College, Boston University, Northeastern University and the University of Iowa. Judge Gertner is on the faculty of the American Bar Association - Central & Eastern European Law Initiative Advisory Council, and is also on its Advisory Board. Judge Gertner has traveled to China with the Spangenberg Group to train lawyers and women's rights advocates in the People's Republic of China, and also traveled there with Yale Law School's China Project to participate in a seminar, co-organized with the Institute of Law at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She presently teaches sentencing at Yale Law School.

MARIE GOTTSCHALK is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her publications include The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States (Cornell University Press, 2000). She is a former associate editor of World Policy Journal and a former associate director of the World Policy Institute. She worked for several years as a journalist and was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.

MOSHE HALBERTAL is currently serving as a professor at New York University Law School. Previously, he has been Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at the Hebrew University and Fellow at The Shalom Hartman Institute. Professor Halbertal has served as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is the author of Idolatry (with A. Margalit) (Harvard University Press, 1998), Interpretative Revolutions in the Making (Magnes Press, 1997), Between Torah and Wisdom: R. Menachem ha-Meiri and The Maimonidean Halakhists in Provence (Magnes Press, 2000) and Concealment and Revelation: The Secret and Its Boundaries in Medieval Jewish Thought (Yeriot, 2001). In 1999, Professor Halbertal was the first recipient of the newly instituted Bruno Prize established by the Rothschild Foundation, and his subsequent distinctions include the Goren Goldstein award for the best book in Jewish thought in the years 1997-2000.

BERNARD E. HARCOURT is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing (Harvard University Press, 2001), Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy (University of Chicago Press, 2005) and Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age, which will be published by The University of Chicago Press in fall, 2006. He is the editor of The Carceral Notebooks.

JAMES JACOBS is Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Professor of Constitutional Law and the Courts Director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice at New York University. In 1982, after seven years' as a faculty member at Cornell Law School, Professor Jacobs was recruited to New York University School of Law, where he was appointed Director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice. His doctoral dissertation, Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society (1977), is considered a classic in penology and is still assigned in classrooms around the country.

GEORGE KATEB is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Emeritus, as well as former Director of the Program in Political Philosophy at Princeton University and former Director of The University Center for Human Values. His books include Utopia and its Enemies (Schocken Books, 1988) and The Inner Ocean: Individualism and Democratic Culture (Cornell University Press, 1992), winner of the 1994 Spitz Book Prize by the Conference for the Study of Political Thought. His new book, Patriotism and Other Mistakes, will be published by Yale University Press this fall.

MARC MAUER is Executive Director of The Sentencing Project. He has served as Assistant Director since 1987 and was the National Justice Communications Coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee from 1975 to 1986. He is the author of Young Black Men and the Criminal Justice System and the Americans Behind Bars series. His book, Race to Incarcerate (1999), was named a semifinalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He has received the Alfred R. Lindesmith Award (2003) from the Drug Policy Alliance for achievement in drug policy scholarship.

DEBBIE A. MUKAMAL is Director of the Prisoner Reentry Institute at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Previously, Ms. Mukamal served as a Staff Attorney at the Legal Action Center and founded and directed the Center's National H.I.R.E. Network, a national clearinghouse for information and related to the employment of people with criminal records. Ms. Mukamal co-authored After Prison: Roadblocks to Reentry, a Report on State Legal Barriers Facing People with Criminal Records.

LORNA RHODES is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington. She is the author of Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison (University of California Press, 2004) and Utilitarians With Words: "Psychopathy" and the Supermaximum Prison (Ethnography, Fall 2003). Her research interests include cultural anthropology, culture and psychiatry, medical anthropology, religion; South Asia, Sri Lanka, US.

JONATHAN SIMON is Associate Dean of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program and is Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. His 1993 book, Poor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass, 1890-1990 (Chicago) documented the role that failed parole policies were having on the rapid growth of American prison populations and the decline of American innercity communities. His most recent book, Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear, will be published by Oxford University Press this fall.

BRENT STAPLES joined The New York Times editorial board in 1990. His editorials and essays are included in dozens of college readers throughout the United States and abroad. Before joining the editorial page, he served as an editor of The New York Times Book Review and an assistant editor for metropolitan news. Mr. Staples holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Chicago and is author of "Parallel Time," a memoir, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.

SUZANNE LAST STONE is a visiting Professor of Law at Columbia University and Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law where she is Director of its Program in Jewish Law and Interdisciplinary Studies. In the 2004-2005 academic year, she was a Visiting Professor at the Harvard Law School, holding the Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Visiting Chair in Talmudic Civil Law. She also has taught Jewish Law at Hebrew University Law School, Haifa Law School, and taught Jewish Law at Tel Aviv Law School. In addition to teaching courses on Jewish Law, Professor Stone teaches Civil Procedure, Federal Courts, and Law, Religion and the State.

MICHAEL TONRY is Sonosky Professor of Law and Public Policy and director of The Institute on Crime and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota. He is also a senior fellow in The Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement and visiting professor of law at the University of Lausanne. He is author or editor of a number of books, including Crime and Punishment in Western Countries, 1980-99 (Chicago 2005, with David Farrington), Punishment and Politics: Evidence and Emulation in the Making of English Crime Control Policy (Willan 2004), Thinking About Crime: Sense and Sensibility in American Penal Culture (Oxford University Press 2004) and Sentencing Matters (OUP 1996). He is editor of Crime and Justice--A Review of Research, published since 1979 by the University of Chicago Press, the book series Studies in Crime and Public Policy, established in 1992 by Oxford University Press, and Criminology In Europe, a quarterly publication of The European Society of Criminology established in 2002.

JEREMY TRAVIS is President, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Prior to his appointment, President Travis served four years as a Senior Fellow affiliated with the Justice Policy Center at the Urban Institute. From 1994-2000, Travis directed the National Institute of Justice at the U.S. Department of Justice. Travis has taught at Yale College, the New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York Law School and George Washington University. He is a board member of the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute and author of But They All Come Back: Facing the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry (Urban Institute Press, 2005).

SUSAN TUCKER is Director of The After Prison Initiative, a program of the U.S. Justice Fund of the Open Society Institute. Previously, Susan was Director of Policy and Research for Victim Services (now Safe Horizon) in New York City. She also worked as Associate Professor at NYU School of Law, Director of Alumni Affairs at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and as a criminal trial and as an appellate lawyer in New York City.

CHRISTOPHER UGGEN is Distinguished McKnight Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. His work appears in journals such as American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, and Criminology and has been featured in media such as the New York Times, The Economist, and NPR. He is the author of Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy (With Jeff Manza) (Oxford University Press, 2006). He currently serves as executive secretary of the American Society of Criminology, as associate editor of Law & Society Review and as incoming chair of his department.

ANDREW VON HIRSCH is Honorary Professor of Penal Theory and Penal Law at the University of Cambridge. Professor von Hirsch is the founding Director of the Centre for Penal Theory and Penal Ethics at the Institute of Criminology. The Center's first volume has been published under the title, Ethical and Social Issues in Situational Crime Prevention (Oxford: Hart Publications). His books include Proportionate Sentencing: Exploring the Principles (with Andrew Ashworth, 2005) and Criminal Deterrence and Sentence Severity (1999). He has also been Adjunct Professor of Penology in the Law Faculty of the University of Uppsala, Sweden.

DAVID WEIMAN is Alena Wels Hirschorn '58 Professor of Economics at Barnard College. He is co-author of The Labor Market Consequences of Incarceration, Crime and Delinquency (July 2001) and Financial Clearing Systems, in Richard R. Nelson, ed., The Limits of Market Organization (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005). He is also co-editor of Incarcerating America: The Social Impacts of Mass Incarceration (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004) and a forthcoming volume on Barriers to Re-Entry: The Labor Market for Released Prisoners in Post-Industrial America (New York: Russell Sage Foundation).

BRUCE WESTERN is Professor of Sociology, Princeton University. His publications includePunishment and Inequality in America (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006) and Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration (with Becky Pettit) (American Sociological Review, 2004).

JAMES WHITMAN is Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School. His subjects are comparative law, contracts, criminal law, and European legal history. His published books and articles include Harsh Justice: Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide Between America and Europe and The Two Western Cultures of Privacy: Dignity versus Liberty.

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