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

Punishment: The U.S. Record

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

Join us as we examine the foundations of our ideas of punishment, explore the social effects of current practices and search for viable alternatives to our carceral state.

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SPECIAL EVENT:

RICHARD GERE and CAREY LOWELL
Read Prison Writings

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This conference is being cosponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

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The American Civil Liberties Union mission is to preserve First Amendment rights, the right to equal protection under the law, the right to due process and the right to privacy.

American Probation and Parole Association is at the vanguard in exploring issues relevant to the field of community-based corrections. APPA provides training and technical assistance, clearinghouse services and advocacy.

Building BLOCK (BB) is a grassroots organization, empowering citizens through education and providing support for survivors of violence. By prioritizing public health and safety over matters of personal morality, BB will motivate positive change and build better lives for our communities and kids -- one block at a time

Capital Punishment Research Initiative at the Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany runs the Capital Punishment Research Initiative (CPRI) and The National Death Penalty Archive, the first archive in the nation that is exclusively dedicated to the history of the death penalty in the United States.

DEMOS, A Network for Ideas & Action, is a non-partisan public policy research and advocacy organization committed to building an America that achieves its highest democratic ideals. Founded in 2000, Demos. work combines research with advocacy- melding the commitment to ideas of a think tank with the organizing strategies of an advocacy group.

Healing the Divide was created to challenge existing, failed modes of thought and action and to foster the kind of revolutionary transformations needed to break the bonds of ignorance, intolerance and injustice. Richard Gere, an internationally known film actor, dedicated social activist and philanthropist founded the Healing the Divide Foundation in 2001.

The John Howard Association of Illinois provides critical public oversight of the state's prisons, jails, and juvenile correctional facilities. As it has for more than a century, the Association promotes fair, humane, and effective sentencing and correctional policies, addresses inmate concerns, and provides Illinois citizens and decision-makers with information needed to improve criminal and juvenile justice through advocacy, monitoring, policy development, public education, and referral services.

JusticeNet, through common purpose and commitment, informs, connects and expands its network's horizons, knowledge, interest and concern for issues of justice in our world locally, nationally and internationally.

The Pennsylvania Prison Society is a social justice organization that advocates on behalf of prisoners, formerly incarcerated individuals and their families. Headquartered in Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Prison Society operates through a network of statewide chapters.

The USC Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism presents the 2006-2007 IJJ Criminal Justice Fellowships:
“CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN AMERICA: The Politics and Consequences of
Removal, Incarceration and Reentry Policies”
Center on the Media, Crime and Justice / John Jay College of Criminal Justice
CUNY Graduate School of Journalism New York City
November 27 - December 2, 2006

Books authored or coauthored by conference speakers:

Mark Dow

American Gulag, Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons (University of California Press)

Machinery of Death, The Reality of America's Death Penalty Regime, CoEdited with David R Dow (University of California Press)

Marie Gottschalk

The Prison and the Gallows, The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America (Cambridge University Press, 2006)

Bernard Harcourt

Against Prediction (The University of Chicago Press, 2007)

Language of the Gun (The University of Chicago Press, 2006)

Guns, Crime, and Punishment (NYU Pres, 2003)

Illusion of Order (Harvard University Press, 2001)

L’Illusion de l’ordre (?ditions Descartes & Cie)

Carceral Notebooks

James Jacobs

Mobsters, Unions, and Feds (NYU Press, 2006)

Gotham Unbound (NYU Press, 2001)

Busting the Mob (NYU Press, 1996)

Corruption and Racketeering in the New York City Construction Industry (NYU Press, 1991)

George Kateb

Patriotism and Other Mistakes (Yale University Press, 2006)

Marc Mauer

Invisible Punishment (The New Press)

Race to Incarcerate (The New Press)

Lorna A. Rhodes

Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison (University of California Press)

Jonathan Simon

Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear (Oxford University Press, 2006)

Speaker's Personal Websites:

Todd Clear

Bernard E. Harcourt

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