J. Carlee PurdumUniversity of Houston | U of H, UH · Department of Sociology
J. Carlee Purdum
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The impact of extreme heat on prisons and carceral facilities is becoming increasingly visible, yet remains overlooked by scholars, practitioners and policymakers. Prisons are a unique type of infrastructure designed to severely limit and control the movement of hundreds and even thousands of individuals as a form of punishment. This leads...
Vulnerability is a shared basic condition but also a condition of potential. In the context of disasters and crises, the concept of vulnerability is often used to portray individuals and groups as ‘weak’, ‘threatened’ and ‘in need of help’. But occasionally a shift occurs and the ‘threatened’ ‐ and therefore usually pitied ‐ become those who are fe...
Disasters are becoming more frequent and destructive while the consequences for incarcerated persons have grown increasingly visible. Simultaneously, scholars, individuals, and communities are grappling with police brutality and systemic anti-Black racism in the criminal legal system by engaging with the concept of abolition. In this article we dem...