Participated in ASC?roundtable sessions that centered on bridging the gap between research and policy. Each session was attended by approx. 15 conference attendees.?
(1) Roundtable: Taking Research from the Ivory Tower and Bringing it to Legislatures and Agencies: How Research Informs Policy and Practice
Criminal Justice practitioners and policymakers increasingly rely on research findings as they adopt evidence-based practices and data driven strategies to improve public safety. Still, the policy application of research is often relegated to a few sentences in the discussion section of journal articles. Hosted by five professionals who regularly use research to inform their work at various levels of policymaking, the roundtable will address the following: (1) discuss how research shapes policy-related work, whether driving evidence-based agency policies and practices or informing state legislation; (2) describe the ways in which research has helped further develop and strengthen policy-related work; and (3) consider ways to communicate to researchers what topics require additional investigation, so that research being conducted may improve the efforts of policymakers and practitioners.
(2) Roundtable: Prisoners' Families, Punishment, and Social Inequality
This roundtable will explore the impact of imprisonment upon families and its intersection with patterns of social inequality, broadly defined, which might include issues of unequal treatment, punishment beyond the legal offender, human rights, citizenship and exclusion, and social justice. It includes participants from a developing network of international scholars whose work addresses fundamental questions about the impact of criminal justice upon the families of offenders and the ways in which they are drawn into the realm of punishment. Imprisonment produces, reproduces and reinforces patterns of social inequality. By virtue of their relationship to a prisoner, prisoners' families are denied a number of rights and entitlements - they are drawn into the criminal justice process and become subject to a number of harms as a result - and these harms have important implications for both prisoners' families themselves and for a socially just society. In this roundtable we will explore the very real consequences of imprisonment which stretch beyond the prisoner, and consider the ways in which the state's power to punish is wielded disproportionality against those who are already likely to be experiencing a range of social disadvantages in their lives.
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