Enakshi Dua, Narda Razack, and Jody Nyasha, eds. This special issue of Social Justice, guest edited by Enakshi Dua, Narda Razack, and Jody Nyasha, focuses attention on the unique manner in which race, racism, and empire are articulated in the Canadian context. Currents in Canadian critical race scholarship include theorizing the relationship between race, racism, […]
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Race, Security, and Social Movements, Vol. 30: 1, 2003
Gregory Shank (coord.) This issue took shape during the buildup to the Bush administration’s preemptive war against Iraq and the worldwide mobilization against it. Its contents appropriately reflect a longer view of US militarism and populist nationalism, the criminalization and repression of domestic dissent, and the movements that have challenged the power arrangements that sustain […]
Racial and Political Justice, Vol. 22: 3, 1995
Gregory Shank (coord.) This issue speaks to attacks on political justice in the form of resurgent racism at home, as well as genocide and patterns of “ethnic cleansing” abroad. With the realignment of power in the United States over the last two decades, the Democrats effectively abandoned the historic demand for civil rights. This demand […]
Reconfiguring Power: Challenges for the 21st Century, Vol. 24: 2, 1997
Edited by Gilberto Arriaza, Jean Ishibashi, and Pedro Noguera This special issue addresses the reconfiguration of power by transnational corporate, worker, and community interests. The language, identity, civil rights, and equity concerns of immigrants, youth, women, and people of color are examined in light of their respective movements, and the possibilities for alliances and the […]
Resisting Militarism and Globalized Punishment, Vol. 31: 1-2, 2004
Tony Platt and Gregory Shank, eds. This issue of Social Justice examines the widening net of incarceration, immigration policing, and drug and crime enforcement as well as the role of an increasingly authoritarian national security state in a globalized 21st-century economy. The phenomenon is transnational in scope, though the contributions here focus mainly on developments […]
Resisting State Criminality, Vol. 36: 3, 2009
Dawn L. Rothe, ed. This issue of Social Justice is dedicated to resisting crimes of the state. It explores an area of scholarship that has received little attention to date: the role that acts of resistance could or do play in efforts to control or constrain the criminality of states. Authors examine some of the […]
Review Symposium: Progressive Punishment, by Judah Schept
REVIEW SYMPOSIUM Progressive Punishment: Job Loss, Jail Growth, and the Neoliberal Logic of Carceral Expansion, by Judah Schept Contributors: Michelle Brown, Alessandro De Giorgi, Keramet Reiter & Judah Schept FORMAT: PDF (download link available after purchase) • • •
Sarah Whetstone & Teresa Gowan
Carceral Rehab as Fuzzy Penality: Hybrid Technologies of Control in the New Temperance Crusade The steep escalation of mandatory drug rehabilitation since 1989 has incorporated “strong-arm” rehab as a central node of carceral control. This article draws on ethnographies of three Midwestern male residential rehab facilities that reflect three dominant treatment paradigms, which result in […]
Securing the Imperium: Criminal Justice Privatization and Neoliberal Globalization (Vol. 34, Nos. 3-4, 2007)
Bob Weiss, ed. This issue of Social Justice discusses the current resurgence, global expansion, and market concentration of the private security industry. Privatization of police, prisons, and the military is addressed in terms of the United States, China, Latin America, the UK, Australia, and South Africa. The issue covers capturing new capitalist frontiers; global market […]
Sexuality, Criminalization, and Social Control Action Research, Vol. 37:1, 2010
Clare Sears, Andreanna Clay, Jessica Fields, and Alexis Martinez, eds. This issue of Social Justice examines aspects of the sexual politics of criminalization in the context of a three-decade long strategy for increasingly managing social problems through penal measures. To date, scholars have critically considered race in studies of criminalization, examining the severe and disproportionate […]
Sexuality, Criminalization, and Social Control Action Research, Vol. 37:1, 2010
Clare Sears, Andreanna Clay, Jessica Fields, and Alexis Martinez This issue of Social Justice examines aspects of the sexual politics of criminalization in the context of a three-decade long strategy for increasingly managing social problems through penal measures. To date, scholars have critically considered race in studies of criminalization, examining the severe and disproportionate effects […]
Shadows of State Terrorism: Impunity in Latin America, Vol. 26: 4, 1999
J. Patrice McSherry and Raúl Molina Mejía, eds. On the cusp of the 21st century, the long shadows of state terrorism still haunt Latin America. For millions of people in the region, the memory of predator states that turned on their own citizens persists; for some, as in Colombia today, political violence and state terrorism […]
Social Justice for Workers in the Global Economy, Vol. 31: 3, 2004
Adalberto Aguirre, Jr., and Ellen Reese, eds. What challenges do workers face in the global economy and how can they and their allies meet them? Essays in this special issue of Social Justice address aspects of this question through detailed case studies on the interface between global capitalism and neoliberalism as it affects workers in […]
Special Issue: Bhopal and After: The Chemical Industry as Toxic Capitalism, Vol. 41-1/2
Published December 2014
Spencer Headworth & Shaun Ossei-Owusu
The Accused Poor Although allegations of client fraud in the SNAP and TANF programs sometimes lead to criminal charges, the foundational welfare fraud case is administrative: it pertains specifically to agency rules regulating participation in public assistance programs. This article compares the legal rights and statuses of people accused of administrative “paper” offenses with those […]
Structures of Power and Inequality, Vol. 24: 1, 1997
Gregory Shank (coord.) This issue has a dual, but related focus: structural forces in the form of dominance based on race and gender within the United States and the integrative mechanisms operating at the hemispheric and global levels that reproduce global poverty and North-South disparities. This ensemble of forces conditions the tasks facing communities of […]