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33 Current Issues Crim. Just. 1 (2021)

handle is hein.journals/cicj33 and id is 1 raw text is: CURRENT ISSUES IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE Routledge 2021, VOL. 33, NO. 1, 1-4 https://doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2020.1859971 Taylor & Francis Group Introduction to special edition: COVID-19, CrirminaI Justice and Carcerahsrm - Critical Reflections and Change Thalia Anthony a and Lorana Bartels I' aProfessor, Faculty of Law, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia; bCentre for Social Research and Methods, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; Canberra Law School, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia; Department of Law, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia ASsT CT KEYWORDS This piece provides an introduction to the special issue on COVID- courts; COVID-19; pandemic; 19, Criminal Justice and Carceralism - Critical Reflections and penality; prisons. Change. It highlights the backdrop of recent events, including the pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement, before articulating both the problems with penalty in the pandemic and the possibilities for justice. The pandemic has brought into sharp relief the devastation that penality and law enfor- cement wreaks on the lives of the marginalised and disempowered, including through hyper-surveillance, police violence and imprisonment. Internationally, where it has not been managed in the community, COVID-19 has spread rapidly in prisons. In these cases, and especially in the United States and originally in Wuhan, China, rates of trans- mission in custody have been higher than in the general population. Lives have also been lost in prisons due to violent responses by prison authorities to protesters dissenting against pandemic prison conditions, such as in Italy, Sri Lanka and Colombia. Yet the pandemic has also been an opportunity for social movements and advocates to expand their reach and articulate their vision for prison abolition and defunding police. This has dovetailed with the Black Lives Matter / Justice for First Nations Deaths in Custody campaigns in Australia and in other settler colonies. Coalitions have been built to respond to what social philosopher George Yancy has called the 'social death' (cited in Lim, 2020) of people criminalised or otherwise oppressed in carceral environ- ments and the structures of racial capitalism (see also Angela Davis, cited in Taylor, 2020; Wilson Gilmore, 2020). They have called for the reimagining of justice outside of a penal and oppressive framework and moving towards social supports and basic income provisions. In Australia, longstanding anti-prison activists and organisations, such as Sisters Inside (Kilroy, 2020), have amplified their advocacy for decarceration and prison abol- ition. This work has been paralleled with intensified advocacy by Aboriginal community organisations and services, especially the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS) and state and territory Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander CONTACT Lorana Bartels ®lorana.bartels@anu.edu.au Centre for Social Research and Methods, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2600, Australia © 2021 Sydney Institute of Criminology

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