Dr. Jason Sexton, "The Irredeemable: Religion, Eugenics, and the Prison"

Jason Sexton is a social theorist, research scholar, and lecturer at UCLA. His primary research focus is on the structure of communities and the ways in which these structures impact their members' ethical and social actions, with a special focus on California communities and California at large. He is currently a visiting scholar at California Center for Sustainable Communities at UCLA, a center that serves to assist Californian communities in being more sustainable, enhance justice and equality. His recent paper, "Reconceiving Christianity and the Modern Prison: On Evangelicalism's Eugenic Logic and Mass Incarceration," explores the persistent influence of eugenic philosophy on mass incarceration and examines the role of Christianity in shaping penal policy and incarceration rates, while proposing a critical theological approach that could have led to resistance rather than support for mass incarceration.