Dr. Judah Schept is a scholar-activist whose community organizing informs his
research and teaching. His doctoral work, an ethnographic study of carceral expansion and
community resistance, examined the representations, enactments, and contestations of mass
incarceration in a politically liberal community. 

Judah’s research and teaching interests include mass incarceration, social movements and
resistance, ethnography, cultural criminology, transformative justice, and law and
society. As an ethnographer, he is particularly interested in examining community level
manifestations of the trans-local logics and practices of mass incarceration. His work
includes explorations of the ways that mass incarceration shapes and constrains local
carceral efforts and, importantly, how communities contest the logics of mass
incarceration and resist their implementation. 

Judah is preparing numerous articles and a book manuscript out of his dissertation
research. His other work includes a book chapter on Palestinian hip-hop and forthcoming
work on radical criminology and decarceration. He received his Ph.D. in 2011 from the
Department of Criminal Justice at Indiana University.

Articles

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Peacemaking Circles and Urban Youth: Bringing Justice Home, Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice (2010)

The article reviews the book "Peacemaking Circles and Urban Youth: Bringing Justice Home. In both...

 

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Corridor Culture: Mapping Student Resistance at an Urban High School, Journal of Youth & Adolescence (2009)

The article reviews the book "Corridor Cultures". In Corridor cultures: mapping student resistance at an...

 

Contributions to Books

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I Broke the Law? No, The Law Broke Me! Palestinian Hip-Hop and the Semiotics of Occupation, Popular Culture, Crime and Social Control (2010)

This chapter studies the lyrics and music videos of Palestinian hip-hop artists, exploring their narratives...

 

Presentations

Radical Criminology for Everyday Life (with Chris Magno), American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting (2010)

This presentation offers insights from the co-authors of a forthcoming book entitled "Radical Criminology for...

 

Contesting the "Campus": An Ethnography of Language, Politics and Resistance in the struggle over Jail Expansion, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting (2009)

This paper presents preliminary findings from an ethnographic study investigating the language, politics, and consciousness...

 

I Broke the Law? No the Law Broke Me: Constructing Palestine/Israel Through Hip Hop, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting (2008)

This paper explores how Arab hip hop artists in Palestine, Israel, Europe, and the United...

 

Revisiting Resistance: Connecting Hidden Transcripts and Social Movements in Prison and Palestine, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting (2007)

This paper analyzes previous academic and activist work on resistance, in the contexts of United...