Gregory Shank (coord.) This issue addresses the use and abuse of animals in criminology, critical criminology and the reconstruction of utopias, class and criminality, organizational crime, domestic violence, and the history of American corrections. Purchase articles (click on the author link to read the abstract and buy the pdf): Gregory Shank, Editorial Overview: Issues in […]
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Jordan T. Camp
The Bombs Explode at Home: Policing, Prisons, and Permanent War In 1967 Dr. Martin Luther King observed: “The bombs in Vietnam explode at home. The security we profess to seek in foreign ventures we will lose in our decaying cities.” His words resonated amidst widespread social protest against Cold War policies designed to contain communism […]
Justice Under Clinton, Vol. 22: 2, 1995
Edited by Raymond J. Michalowski and Ronald Kramer This special issue of Social Justice was conceptualized during the early debates about the likely impact of Bill Clinton’s administration on justice in the United States. The plan was to assemble articles that would assess what was happening in various public policy areas under the leadership of the […]
Law, Order, and Neoliberalism, Vol. 28: 3, 2001
Philomena Mariani, ed. This issue on the antiterrorist state and articles solicited before September 11 in which contributors explore the relationship between neoliberalism and models of criminal justice, the political and ideological factors driving criminal justice policy in the United States, and the willingness of other countries to follow the United States in adopting the […]
Lisa Guenther
Prison Beds and Compensated Man-Days: The Spatio-Temporal Order of Carceral Neoliberalism The Trousdale Turner Correctional Center is a 2,600-bed private prison owned and operated by CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America. It is located in Hartsville, Tennessee, on the former site of the Hartsville Nuclear Plant and PowerCom Industrial Center. In this paper, […]
Losing a Generation: Probing the Myths and Reality of Youth and Violence, Vol. 24: 4, 1997
Nancy Stein, Susan Roberta Katz, Esther Madriz, and Shelley Shick, eds. Youth violence is among the most hotly debated and most deeply misunderstood issues today. The “gangsta” has become the new red menace of the 1990s, the target of societal fears in a time of a widening gap between the rich and the poor. Poor […]
Melissa Archer Alvaré
Gentrification and Resistance: Racial Projects in the Neoliberal Order Gentrification amplifies the precarity of marginalized people of color and reproduces white supremacy as neighborhoods are redeveloped in accord with affluent actors’ interests. Representations of poor Black communities as blighted neighborhoods inhabited by dangerous criminals and welfare queens demonize residents and construct them as threatening to […]
Migrant Labor and Contested Public Space, Vol. 35: 4, 2008
Gregory Shank and Adalberto Aguirre, eds. This issue of Social Justice examines the impact of immigrant labor, particularly from Mexico, at the local level. It remains a polarizing issue that the Obama administration may not address during his first term, disappointing Latino leaders and immigration advocates. Meanwhile, lacking a pathway to citizenship and union protections, […]
Native Women and State Violence , Vol. 31: 4, 2004
Andrea Smith and Luana Ross, eds. This issue addresses the relationship between gender violence and colonialism. Although violence against women occurs during colonization, the colonial process is itself structured by sexual violence. The violence of colonization takes the obvious historical form such as the massacres of indigenous peoples in the Americas, but is also expressed […]
Neoliberalism, Militarism, and Armed Conflict, Vol. 27: 4, 2000
Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey, eds. This issue makes practical links between US domestic and foreign policy, with articles on most crucial regions of the world and an emphasis on the work of activists. With US military spending already exceeding the military budgets of the next 12 countries combined, communities around the world and in […]
New Pedagogies for Social Change, Vol. 29: 4, 2002
Susan Roberta Katz and Cecilia Elizabeth O’Leary, eds. In the United States today, we are witnessing the dominance of a “new market economy” paradigm in the field of education. As a result, we are currently facing increased state and nationwide efforts to control learning and teaching under the guise of “standards” and “accountability.” At the […]
Policing Protest and Youth, Vol. 36: 1, 2009
Gregory Shank, ed. This issue of Social Justice examines the historical roots of recent forms of domestic spying and the fear campaigns that justify such programs–as well as the wars on crime, drugs, and terror. Authors look at how globalization affects policing practices in the United States, including the policing of protest and of inner-city […]
Policing, Detention, Deportation, and Resistance, Vol. 36: 2, 2009
Jodie Michelle Lawston and Martha Escobar, eds. This issue of Social Justice demonstrates that imprisonment, including immigrant detention, is essential to the US drive to preserve geopolitical dominance. It examines activist efforts to resist this trend and urges the building of bridges between prison abolition and immigrant justice work. The issue brings together a multiplicity […]
Privatization and Resistance: Contesting Neoliberal Globalization, Vol. 33: 3, 2006
Adalberto Aguirre, Jr., Volker Eick, and Ellen Reese, eds. This issue of Social Justice explores the danger of neoliberal globalization regarding social issues such as the privatization of housing, economic welfare, security, and the delivery of goods and services. Contributions on economic welfare and municipal services discuss how neoliberalism in the global North and South […]
Public Health in the 1990s: In the Shadow of Global Transformation and Militarism, Vol. 22: 4, 1995
Edited by Patrice Sutton and Robert Gould Public Health in the 1990s is an excellent compendium of some of the most important global public health issues that we currently face, including violence, occupational and environmental health, women’s health, AIDS, health care delivery, landmines, chemical and nuclear weapons, and nuclear waste cleanup. Among the contributions are […]
Race, Class, and State Crime, Vol. 27: 1, 2000
Gregory Shank (coord.) Two themes stand out in this issue. The first concerns the intersection of race, class, and crime. Discussion centers on excessive police violence, criminalization based on racial and ethnic markers, the viability of electoral work versus strategies of civil disobedience, and the varieties of multiculturalism. The second theme revolves around patterns of […]