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Approaching justice from the perspective of arts and culture enables us to attend to its affective, embodied, social, and political dimensions, thus bringing together a range of cross-disciplinary dialogues.

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On Andy Warhol's Electric Chair
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In June 2003, the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh mounted an exhibition of Warhol's iconic Electric Chair print series—ten large-scale prints along with several smaller prints and paintings—as a catalyst to generate discourse on the issue of capital punishment. The project, Andy Warhol's Electric Chairs: Reflecting on Capital Punishment in America, which came two years after the execution of Timothy McVeigh and shortly after the decision by Illinois Governor George Ryan to commute all death sentences in that state, raised significant questions about the social utility and morality of the death penalty.

Introduction
By
Forrest Stuart
But in the void, young residents like the Corner Boys have developed new, creative, online strategies for making ends meet.
Introduction
By
Guyora Binder
Robert Weisberg
To lawyers, at least, the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences represent techniques for determining, representing, measuring, and summing desire. 
Conclusion: Making Flesh Matter
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Amber Jamilla Musser
Put another way, can the possibilities of masochism as sexual exceptionalism/subversion... extend to black women?
Posing in Prison: Family Photographs, Emotional Labor, and Carceral Intimacy
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Nicole R. Fleetwood

The photographs they send are studio portraits taken by incarcerated photographers whose job in prison is to take pictures. Allen poses in these photographs sometimes with props, always in uniform. The backdrops are designed and painted by incarcerated people. They break up the uniformity and repetition of the prison attire and staged poses. There are also photographs from our visits to see Allen. In most of these, he stands in the center and we huddle around, hugging him as tightly as we can.

Huntsville Station
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Jamie Meltzer and Chris Filippone

In this film, inmates are released from Huntsville State Penitentiary, taking in their first moments of freedom with phone calls, cigarettes, and quiet reflection at the Greyhound station up the block.

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