💭 Prison labor scholar, sociologist, game designer
📕 Orange-Collar Labor from Oxford Uni. Press
🃏 Dead Theorists from Microcosm Publishing
Michael Gibson-Light
Behold: the girls.
First post, gotta make it count. Here, admire the boy.
Michael Gibson-Light
Coming in hot off the presses
In 2018, Colorado voters passed an amendment that banned involuntary labor as a punishment for a crime. But forced labor under the threat of severe punishment, like weeks of solitary confinement, has continued in state prisons.
Michael Gibson-Light
Michael Gibson-Light
Bolts
Years after voters amended the state’s constitution to ban forced labor in prison, a court ruling could finally make Colorado change how prison guards “compel and coerce” work.
New article theorizing the relational mechanisms that reproduce criminal legal inequalities. Come for the theory; stay for the review of cutting-edge research showing how social closure, exploitation, and claims-making drive inequality under the law
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
This article outlines a relational theory of legal inequality through a review of recent studies of crime, law, and deviance. I argue that three relational mechanisms—claims-making, social closure, a...
