8 December 2025
Punishment in Polarized Times: How Political Divisions Built, Slowed, and now Refuse to Dismantle the Prison State
Speaker: Dr Scott Duxbury (Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina)Abstract: The development of the U.S. carceral state is one of the most significant criminal legal policy projects of the century. Conventional accounts of U.S. penal change trace shifts in large scale institutional conditions, racial politics, and electoral competitio…
