Judah Schept
Biographic Data
| ID | 4076382 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judah Schept |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judah |
| FAMILY NAME | Schept |
| SIGNATURE | SCHEPT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eastern Kentucky University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
That Makes Them an Easy Target: Criminalisation and Racialisation in a Central Appalachian County
The geography of incarceration in the USA has shifted over the past 20 years. While the USA remains atop the world in per capita incarceration rates and numbers of people inside, the locus of this system has been moving downscale over the past two decades. Local jail incarceration rates have been rising in rural counties and declining in many big cities; there are now more people overall incarcerated in rural jails than in urban jails. We explore…
Transforming Relations: In Loving Memory of Hal Pepinsky
Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia
How prisons became economic development strategies for rural Appalachian communities As the United States began the project of mass incarceration, rural communities turned to building prisons as a strategy for economic development. More than 350 prisons have been built in the U.S. since 1980, with certain regions of the country accounting for large shares of this dramatic growth. Central Appalachia is one such region; there are eight prisons alon…
Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia
The emergence of the United States as the global leader in incarceration included the construction of hundreds of new prisons in rural communities around the country. Central Appalachia, a region with contradicting representations as remote and retrograde and yet central to the country’s economic and political objectives, has seen significant prison growth, with most of the facilities built during a period of precipitous decline for the coal indu…
John Eason, Big House on the Prairie: Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation
Penal Abolition Praxis
New abolition, criminology and a critical carceral studies
Criminology has been slow to open up a conversation about decarceration and abolition in comparison with other disciplines, including history, geography, and gender, race, and critical ethnic studies. Scholars from these areas and actors on the ground—close up to confinement—have done most of the organizing against mass incarceration and theorizing of alternative possibilities. Why those experiences—and the theoretical traditions that inform thei…
Jordan T Camp, Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal Carceral State
Progressive Punishment: Job Loss, Jail Growth, and the Neoliberal Logic of Carceral Expansion
Winner, 2017 American Society of Criminology's Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice Best Book Award An examination of the neoliberal politics of incarceration The growth of mass incarceration in the United States eludes neat categorization as a product of the political Right. Liberals played important roles in both laying the foundation for and then participating in the conservative tough on crime movement that is largely credited …
Challenging Prison Progress: Landscape and the Dialectical Image
Todd R Clear and Natasha A Frost, The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America
(Un)seeing like a prison: Counter-visual ethnography of the carceral state
While prisons proliferate in the rural landscape and sites of penal tourism expand, the carceral state structures the available visual and analytic vantages through which to perceive this growing visibility. Using examples from fieldwork in Kentucky, including Appalachian prison communities and a site of penal tourism, this article proposes ‘counter-visual’ ethnography to better perceive the ideological work that the carceral state performs in th…
‘A lockdown facility … with the feel of a small, private college’: Liberal politics, jail expansion, and the carceral habitus
While scholarship has identified neoliberalism, punitive and racialized public policy, and a supportive culture of punishment as giving rise to mass incarceration in the United States, little work has examined how communities come to participate in the production of the carceral state. Using an ethnographic case study of a proposed ‘justice campus’, a carceral expansion project in a politically progressive Midwestern city, this article illuminate…
(Un)seeing like a prison: Counter-visual ethnography of the carceral state
While prisons proliferate in the rural landscape and sites of penal tourism expand, the carceral state structures the available visual and analytic vantages through which to perceive this growing visibility. Using examples from fieldwork in Kentucky, including Appalachian prison communities and a site of penal tourism, this article proposes ‘counter-visual’ ethnography to better perceive the ideological work that the carceral state performs in th…
New abolition, criminology and a critical carceral studies
Criminology has been slow to open up a conversation about decarceration and abolition in comparison with other disciplines, including history, geography, and gender, race, and critical ethnic studies. Scholars from these areas and actors on the ground—close up to confinement—have done most of the organizing against mass incarceration and theorizing of alternative possibilities. Why those experiences—and the theoretical traditions that inform thei…
Penal Abolition Praxis
Challenging Prison Progress: Landscape and the Dialectical Image
‘A lockdown facility … with the feel of a small, private college’: Liberal politics, jail expansion, and the carceral habitus
While scholarship has identified neoliberalism, punitive and racialized public policy, and a supportive culture of punishment as giving rise to mass incarceration in the United States, little work has examined how communities come to participate in the production of the carceral state. Using an ethnographic case study of a proposed ‘justice campus’, a carceral expansion project in a politically progressive Midwestern city, this article illuminate…
(Un)seeing like a prison: Counter-visual ethnography of the carceral state
While prisons proliferate in the rural landscape and sites of penal tourism expand, the carceral state structures the available visual and analytic vantages through which to perceive this growing visibility. Using examples from fieldwork in Kentucky, including Appalachian prison communities and a site of penal tourism, this article proposes ‘counter-visual’ ethnography to better perceive the ideological work that the carceral state performs in th…
Progressive Punishment: Job Loss, Jail Growth, and the Neoliberal Logic of Carceral Expansion
Winner, 2017 American Society of Criminology's Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice Best Book Award An examination of the neoliberal politics of incarceration The growth of mass incarceration in the United States eludes neat categorization as a product of the political Right. Liberals played important roles in both laying the foundation for and then participating in the conservative tough on crime movement that is largely credited …
Challenging Prison Progress: Landscape and the Dialectical Image
Todd R Clear and Natasha A Frost, The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America
New abolition, criminology and a critical carceral studies
Criminology has been slow to open up a conversation about decarceration and abolition in comparison with other disciplines, including history, geography, and gender, race, and critical ethnic studies. Scholars from these areas and actors on the ground—close up to confinement—have done most of the organizing against mass incarceration and theorizing of alternative possibilities. Why those experiences—and the theoretical traditions that inform thei…
Jordan T Camp, Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal Carceral State
John Eason, Big House on the Prairie: Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation
Penal Abolition Praxis
Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia
How prisons became economic development strategies for rural Appalachian communities As the United States began the project of mass incarceration, rural communities turned to building prisons as a strategy for economic development. More than 350 prisons have been built in the U.S. since 1980, with certain regions of the country accounting for large shares of this dramatic growth. Central Appalachia is one such region; there are eight prisons alon…
Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia
The emergence of the United States as the global leader in incarceration included the construction of hundreds of new prisons in rural communities around the country. Central Appalachia, a region with contradicting representations as remote and retrograde and yet central to the country’s economic and political objectives, has seen significant prison growth, with most of the facilities built during a period of precipitous decline for the coal indu…
Transforming Relations: In Loving Memory of Hal Pepinsky
That Makes Them an Easy Target: Criminalisation and Racialisation in a Central Appalachian County
The geography of incarceration in the USA has shifted over the past 20 years. While the USA remains atop the world in per capita incarceration rates and numbers of people inside, the locus of this system has been moving downscale over the past two decades. Local jail incarceration rates have been rising in rural counties and declining in many big cities; there are now more people overall incarcerated in rural jails than in urban jails. We explore…
Sociology (10 works) · Criminology (9 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Prison (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Mass incarceration (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works)