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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: 2021-22 ABF Doctoral Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Brandon Alston: “The Camera is My Weapon:” How Black Men Use Cellphones to Negotiate Safety and Status Amid Police Surveillance\nCivilians frequently capture black men in cellphone-generated videos depicting police violence. Yet\, existing research ignores how black men use cellphones to mitigate risk during police encounters and the impact cellphone recording has within black communities. In this talk\, I examine how the threat of police violence shapes black men’s use of cellphones during police stops and the social dynamics that emerge from cellphone recording. Drawing on ten months of fieldwork and 70 in-depth interviews with black men living on the Southwest side of Chicago\, this study finds that vulnerability to police violence shapes men’s appropriation of cellphones to negotiate their safety and status as men. Armed with their cellphones as an instrumental tool to contest police violence\, men use their cellphones to protect against institutional and interpersonal acts of harm\, a strategy I refer to as “protective monitoring.” While monitoring police for safety\, men also use cellphones as a symbolic resource to project a multidimensional expression of manhood tied to fatherhood\, citizenship\, and redemption. By deploying their cellphones during police interventions\, men mitigate some of the consequences of criminalization\, appeal to dominant gender ideals\, and perform resistance to police as a community service. \nView Brandon’s ABF profile here. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nIsabel Anadon: Interior Immigration Enforcement: Structural Mechanisms & the Punishment of Migrants in the United States\nThe regime of mass incarceration in the United States and the nation’s system of immigration and border enforcement are imagined as two distinct forms of state policing and punishment. However\, advocates\, historians and legal scholars argue that the U.S. deportation and detention center system is an extension of the carceral state. My research heeds these concerns and situates the entangled development between the current system of mass incarceration and immigration control particularly as it relates to the nation’s interior in the United States. More specifically\, this presentation provides evidence of a relationship between immigrant detention centers openings and prison building since 1980. For this study\, I build a novel dataset merging detention centers initiation dates with prison facility openings. Using a rare-event logistic regression model\, I provide evidence of how these institutions shape local community characteristics. Preliminary findings point to potential harmful socio-economic outcomes in places with high-level detention center development. \nMore generally\, this research pulls from my dissertation project\, Interior Immigration Enforcement: Structural Mechanisms & the Punishment of Migrants in the United States\, where I develop a framework to explicate how the mechanisms of interior immigration enforcement situate in local level immigration laws and policies; detention center proliferation; and the overly complex and taxed immigration court system. \nView Isabel’s ABF profile here. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nAlex Reiss-Sorokin: The Costs of Access to Legal Information\nAlthough court decisions and legislation are considered public\, lawyers\, legal professionals\, and researchers depend on commercial services to access and effectively use them. This talk focuses on the costs of accessing legal information by investigating the development of one commercial service: Lexis. In the late 1960s\, before Lexis was one of the two dominant legal databases used in the United States\, it was a legal research system developed by a group of Ohio lawyers to improve access to legal information for Ohio lawyers. According to the vision of the Ohio Bar Automated Research (OBAR) organization\, the computer was to serve as an equalizer – eliminating differences in resources and status between lawyers. Based on ads\, internal reports\, conference presentations\, journal articles\, and correspondence\, this talk examines how a tool that was meant to expand access to legal information ended up making access more restricted and costly. This talk is part of a larger project that examines the ways in which legal information is made accessible and their implications on legal education and the quality and costs of legal services. \nView Alex’s ABF profile here.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-2021-22-abf-doctoral-fellows/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Sydney Halpern
DESCRIPTION:During the third quarter of the twentieth century\, American biomedical researchers maintained a well-organized and fully entrenched regime for conducting experiments with inmates in U.S. reformatories and prisons. At the system’s core was the idea that participating in medical experiments was a vehicle for inmate rehabilitation. By making patriotic sacrifices for the greater good\, the story went\, the prisoner would undergo a redemptive transformation leading to social reintegration. Government-sponsored scientists and prison officials advanced these notions and with the assistance of a deferential press\, disseminated them to the broader public. \nThis presentation is part of a broader study of biomedical experimentation in World War II and early Cold War America published as Dangerous Medicine: The Story behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis (Yale University Press\, November 2021). Drawing on extensive archival research\, the book examines how elite U.S scientists established a moral framework that justified and normalized hazardous human experiments and won them access to custodial facilities for recruiting subjects. Researchers spun narratives that invoked dominant cultural imagery and appealed to the ethos and management concerns of institutional overseers. \nWhen arranging for experiments in prisons\, scientists promised participants certificates of service to be considered at inmates’ parole hearings. Multiple actors made the system of experimentation in prisons possible: university researchers; federal officials; wardens and other correctional officers; sympathetic journalists; and prisoners themselves. All cooperating parties promoted tales of inmate transformation\, advancing a view widely held till the 1970s: that conducting risk-laden medical experiments with prisoners was right and good. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nSydney Halpern is a historical sociologist who studies biomedical science and the emergence of healthcare institutions and professions. Her recent work addresses moral and regulatory issues in human experimentation. Her recently published book\, Dangerous Medicine\, chronicles a thirty-year\, government-sponsored program in which American researchers deliberately infected people with hepatitis. The volume offers a sustained picture of how\, during World War II and the Cold War years\, scientists persuaded a large swath of the American public that hazardous human experiments were not only morally acceptable\, but also an exemplary expression of citizenship.  Halpern’s previous books include American Pediatrics: Social Dynamics of Professionalism (University of California Press\, 1988) and Lesser Harms: Morality of Risk in Medical Research (University of Chicago Press\, 2004).  Lesser Harms\, examining informal constraints on early vaccine testing\, won the Visiltear Award from the American Public Health Association.  Halpern earned her Ph.D. in Sociology at University of California\, Berkeley.  She has served as Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago\, and Vanderbilt University.  She is recipient of an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation\, and a grant and multiple university fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities.  For Dangerous Medicine\, she received an award from the National Library of Medicine of National Institutes of Health.  Halpern is currently Lecturer of Medical Education at the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities\, Feinberg School of Medicine\, Northwestern University.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-sydney-halpern/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
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