Naomi Murakawa

Naomi Murakawa
Title Associate professor
Academic background
Education Yale University
Thesis Electing to Punish: Congress, Race, and the American Criminal Justice State (2005)
Academic work
Discipline Political science
Sub-discipline African-American studies
Institutions Princeton University
Notable works The First Civil Right

Naomi Murakawa is an American political scientist and associate professor of African-American studies at Princeton University. Along with Kent Eaton, she is also the co-chair of the 2017 American Political Science Association's Section 24 meeting.[1] She received her Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in 2005.[2] She is known for her 2014 book, The First Civil Right, which was contends that American liberals are just as responsible for mass incarceration in the United States as conservatives are.[3][4] In 2015, Murakawa won the Michael Harrington Book Award from the American Political Science Association for this book.[5]

Selected publications

  • Murakawa, Naomi (2016). The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199892785.
  • Beckett, Katherine; N. Murakawa (2012). "Mapping the shadow carceral state: Toward an institutionally capacious approach to punishment". Theoretical Criminology. 16 (2): 221–44. doi:10.1177/1362480612442113.
  • Murakawa, Naomi; K. Beckett (2010). "The Penology of Racial Innocence: The Erasure of Racism in the Study and Practice of Punishment". Law & Society Review. 44 (3–4): 695–730. doi:10.1111/j.1540-5893.2010.00420.x.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Politics and History (Section 24)". American Political Science Association.
  2. ↑ "Naomi Murakawa". Department of African American Studies. Princeton University.
  3. ↑ Goldstein, Dana (2015-01-15). "'Blame Liberals'". The Marshall Project.
  4. ↑ Osterweil, Willie (2015-01-06). "How White Liberals Used Civil Rights to Create More Prisons". The Nation.
  5. ↑ "Michael Harrington Book Award Winners". American Political Science Association.
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