This edition of The Confined Arts will be a symposium consisting of an art exhibition, poetry, a panel discussion, a promotional screening, and more. Opportunities and Change will be collaborating with the Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement to highlight the humanity of the people held in solitary confinement inside of our nation's prisons. Additionally, we hope to raise awareness about the inhumane conditions and the use of solitary confinement to educate attendees.

Sponsored by The Post-Prison Program @ St. Francis & The Center for Crime & Popular Culture

Nickie Phillips, Portia Allen-Kyle, Emily Horowitz

Gender equality is not only a women’s issue, it is a human rights issue that requires my participation. We as conscious members of St Francis College commit to take action against all forms of violence and discrimination faced by women and girls.

He for She @ SFC

Tuesday, September 9: Michael Siem on “Lethal Injection Challenges.”

Co-Sponsored by the Center for Crime & Popular Culture.

Attorney Michael Siem will speak about his experiences representing death row inmates. Siem represented Jack Alderman, the longest serving prisoner on Death Row. With the help of justice organizations throughout the world, Alderman spent 34 years fighting to prove his innocence before he being executed.

Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/37381942@N04/4905111750/in/set-72157624628981539/

Tuesday, October 14: Federal Agent Denis McGowan on “A Career Combating Corruption & Crimes.”

Sponsored by the Center for Crime & Popular Culture.

Federal Agent Denis McGowan will speak about his professional experiences working with the DEA Task Force, FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, and Homeland Security.

Tuesday November 25: Jennifer Baumgardner, Executive Director/Publisher at The Feminist Press at CUNY, will screen and answer questions about her documentary, It Was Rape .

Co-sponsored by American Studies and the Center for Crime & Popular Culture.

After 5 years as an editor at the feminist magazine, Ms. (1993-1997), Baumgardner began writing investigative pieces for Harper’s and The Nation, providing commentaries for NPR’s All Things Considered, contributing to dozens of national magazines, and then authoring 6 books, including Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future. Her new film,It Was Rape, asks why the wrong, illegal, and reprehensible of rape is still tragically common. In this film, 8 women tell their diverse personal stories of sexual assault, from a Midwestern teenager trying alcohol for the first time to a Native American woman gradually coming to terms with her abusive childhood. The film is an opportunity to empathize with people—not just absorb faceless statistics—and to puncture the silence and denial that allow sexual assault to thrive, and sheds light on how this epidemic affects us all.

On February 6, SFC alumnus Richard Loutfi '10 joined our Urban Law Enforcement Problems class to speak about "Policing: A Survivor's Perspective."

For more information on the Office of Victim's Services in New York State, click here.

Richard Loutfi with his mother Georgette, also an SFC graduate.

Sociologist Emily Horowitz and Daniella Henry, attorney and policy analyst with the Innocence Project

Katarzyna Celinska on Functional Family Therapy

About the book:

"The intersections of law and contemporary culture are vital for comprehending the meaning and significance of law in today’s world. Far from being unsophisticated mass entertainment, comics and graphic fiction both imbue our contemporary culture, and are themselves imbued, with the concerns of law and justice. Accordingly, and spanning a wide variety of approaches and topics from an international array of contributors, Graphic Justice draws comics and graphic fiction into the range of critical resources available to the academic study of law. The first book to do this,Graphic Justice broadens our understanding of law and justice as part of our human world—a world that is inhabited not simply by legal concepts and institutions alone, but also by narratives, stories, fantasies, images, and other cultural articulations of human meaning. Engaging with key legal issues (including copyright, education, legal ethics, biomedical regulation, and legal personhood) and exploring critical issues in criminal justice and perspectives on international rights, law and justice—all through engagement with comics and graphic fiction—the collection showcases the vast breadth of potential that the medium holds. Graphic Justicewill be of interest to academics and postgraduate students in: cultural legal studies; law and the image; law, narrative and literature; law and popular culture; cultural criminology; as well as cultural and comics studies more generally."

Review in Crime, Media, Culture

STOP from Spencer Wolff on Vimeo.

Randy Williams and Bob Rahn

Randy Williams served nine years of a 22 years-to-life prison sentence as a result of a wrongful conviction. He was released in 2016.

On April 14, 2016, Randy and his mom, Rosie, spoke with students at St. Francis College to share their story. They discussed how Bob Rahn and Kim Anklin, of Private Investigations by Management Resources Ltd of NY, worked tirelessly on behalf of Randy uncovering false eyewitness testimony and police misconduct.

Nickie Phillips, Rosie Benjamin, Randy Williams, and Bob Rahn

Author Gabriella Coleman, criminologist Nickie Phillips, sociologist Emily Horowitz

Tuesday October 28: SFC Alumnus Robert Rahn (Sociology, Class of 1976) & Kim Anklin on “Freeing the Wrongfully Convicted.”

Co-sponsored by the Center for Crime & Popular Culture.

St. Francis College alumnus Robert Rahn '76 and his partner, Kim Anklin, will discuss how their private investigation helped free a wrongfully imprisoned man, Jonathan Fleming. Fleming served more than 20 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Rahn and Anklin will discuss how they investigated the Fleming case and, more generally, about their careers in private investigations. Read more about the Fleming case and the role played by Rahn and Anklin.

Popular Culture, Crime and Social Control is part of the "Sociology of Crime Law and Deviance" series published by Emerald.

Nickie Phillips, Kerthy Fix (Director), and Johanna Fateman (Band member) Kerthy Fix and Johanna Fateman Johanna Fateman Le Tigre

AMERICAN BOMBER Q & A Part 1 from American Bomber Movie on Vimeo.

Banksy + "Omar is a Punk" Cultural Criminology, Fall 2013 For more photos, go to Crimcast. For the NBC news article that features our class trip, go here.