Risks of Redemption: Responsibility & Remorse in the CA Parole Process
What does it mean to carry responsibility and remorse? Come discover the counter-intuitive role these have in the California parole process.
About this event
What pressure are prisoners under as they enter the parole process?
Due to recent legal reforms and pressures to reduce the prison population, the Board of Parole Hearings has been far more active in overseeing the release of long-term offenders.
Based on first hand observations and transcripts of parole board hearings, Dr. Kimberly Richman analyzes the role of what she calls “Program Speak”—the name prisoners give to the specialized language learned in prison rehabilitative programs—in the parole process.
She finds a mutually reinforcing pattern of purposive language acquisition, designed to signal—and possibly induce—over-responsibility and extreme culpability. This has profound consequences for the prisoners and their parole process.
Come join us as Dr. Kimberly Richman explains how prisoners are being pressured into responsibility and remorse in levels that may be harmful to them.
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About Kimberly Richman:
Kimberly Richman received a BA at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, and an MA and a PhD in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society at UC Irvine, where she also completed a graduate emphasis in women's studies. She currently teaches Criminology; Sociology of Law; Deviance and Social Control; Senior Thesis Workshop; and Capstone in Sociology.
Professor Richman's primary areas of research interest are law and society, criminology, and the effects of legal rights (or their lack) on social, civic, and personal aspects of life, including legal consciousness, identity, and civic personhood. The majority of her past research has focused on the creation of legal and social meaning in legal processes involved with LGBT family law issues, as well as legal consciousness among same-sex married (or would-be married) couples and parents. Her current research focuses on the experience of incarceration, rehabilitative prison programming, and its effects on parole and reentry. She is co-founder and chief executive of the Bay Area reentry nonprofit Alliance for CHANGE
