Congratulations to Professor Phil Goodman and U of T Sociology PhD graduate Kaitlyn Quinn (University of Missouri – St. Louis) on being awarded the 2023 Best Article Prize from the Howard Journal of Crime and Justice for their article “The palimpsest of outdoor penal labour in California, 1915–2000”. This award honors the most original contribution to knowledge in the field of crime and justice. In their article, Profs. Goodman and Quinn analyse state archives to examine the persistence of outdoor penal labour in California throughout the 20th century. To explain this history, the authors identify the stabilizing agency and interpretive innovation of penal system administrators, which complicates existing theories of path dependence and theorizes a more dynamic and complex understanding of history.
Phil Goodman is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. He studies prisons, punishment, crime, and law to consider questions of race, inequality, penal politics, labour, rehabilitation, and the micro-dynamics of everyday life.