Brittany Friedman, assistant professor of sociology and faculty affiliate of the Center for Social Innovation and the Equity Research Institute at the University of Southern California, will deliver the Robert Liebman Annual Sociology Lecture:
Racism and Mass Incarceration in the Wake of Covid-19 and Its Afterlives
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Friedman is a sociologist of punishment and social control, researching race and prison order, inequality, mobilization against the carceral state, and the criminal legal system as an economic market. Friedman is Co-PI (w/ Dr. April Fernandes and Gabriela Kirk) of a comparative study of inmate reimbursement practices, also known as “pay-to-stay.” She is a 2021-2022 American Bar Foundation/JPB Foundation Access to Justice Faculty Scholar, examining the relationship between legal representation, pay-to-stay, and civil recoupment strategies. Friedman is PI (Co-PIs Dr. Paul Hirschfield and Alexis Karteron, J.D.) of an ongoing study of Covid-19 penal policy, which traces how formal and informal practices affect the conditions of confinement in prisons. Her research has been supported by external funding from the American Bar Foundation, National Science Foundation, American Society of Criminology, and Arnold Ventures, and university funding from several institutions.