Meghan G Mcdowell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4076378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meghan G Mcdowell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meghan G |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdowell |
| SIGNATURE | MCDOWELL M G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Winston-Salem State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beauty in the struggle: Insurgent safety and abolitionist commoning in Arizona
Arizona is one of the most punitive places on the planet, with an incarceration rate of 868 per 100,000 people. State actors use criminalization, policing, prisons, and probation to respond to social and economic problems at an industrial scale. In Arizona and across the country, public safety is understood through the logics and material practices of carcerality. Over the past decade, a series of rebellions against police violence and mass incar…
Disband, Disempower, and Disarm: Amplifying the Theory and Practice of Police Abolition
Insurgent safety: Theorizing alternatives to state protection
In the United States, public safety is embraced as an unquestioned social good. Broadly speaking, the criminal justice system is tasked with administering and maintaining public safety through the use of law enforcement, the courts, and prisons. First, through a focus on racialized police violence, this article develops a critique of the dominant model of public safety practiced in the United States—identified herein as ‘carceral safety’. Second,…
Disband, Disempower, and Disarm: Amplifying the Theory and Practice of Police Abolition
Insurgent safety: Theorizing alternatives to state protection
In the United States, public safety is embraced as an unquestioned social good. Broadly speaking, the criminal justice system is tasked with administering and maintaining public safety through the use of law enforcement, the courts, and prisons. First, through a focus on racialized police violence, this article develops a critique of the dominant model of public safety practiced in the United States—identified herein as ‘carceral safety’. Second,…
Insurgent safety: Theorizing alternatives to state protection
In the United States, public safety is embraced as an unquestioned social good. Broadly speaking, the criminal justice system is tasked with administering and maintaining public safety through the use of law enforcement, the courts, and prisons. First, through a focus on racialized police violence, this article develops a critique of the dominant model of public safety practiced in the United States—identified herein as ‘carceral safety’. Second,…
Disband, Disempower, and Disarm: Amplifying the Theory and Practice of Police Abolition
Beauty in the struggle: Insurgent safety and abolitionist commoning in Arizona
Arizona is one of the most punitive places on the planet, with an incarceration rate of 868 per 100,000 people. State actors use criminalization, policing, prisons, and probation to respond to social and economic problems at an industrial scale. In Arizona and across the country, public safety is understood through the logics and material practices of carcerality. Over the past decade, a series of rebellions against police violence and mass incar…
Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (2 works) · Criminal justice (2 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law enforcement (2 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)