Structural Racism, Criminalization, and Pathways to Deportation for Dominican and Jamaican Men in the US Structural racism—in the form of heavy policing, residential segregation, and limited social services and labor opportunities—combined with changes in immigration laws in 1996 and the rise of immigration policing in the early twenty-first century has shaped the incorporation patterns of […]
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The Intersection of Ideologies of Violence, Vol. 30: 3, 2003
Alberto Arenas, Gilberto Arriaza, and Victoria Sanford, eds. This issue explains violence at the local and global levels, as well as its manifestations in society’s structural, material, cultural, and political spheres. Four central ideologies of violence discussed are patriarchal domination, white supremacy, religious fundamentalism, and savage competition and individualism, nurtured by an extreme concentration of […]
The Many Faces of Violence, Vol. 32: 2, 2005
Gregory Shank, ed. Each contribution to this issue of Social Justice reveals a facet of the many forms that violence takes. Given its immediacy, we often focus on the scourge of interpersonal predatory violence. Arguably, though, structural violence, including racism, and institutional violence take a greater human toll. State violence, in the form of warfare, […]
The World Today, Vol. 23: 1-2, 1996
Edited by Pablo González Casanova and John Saxe-Fernández This special 375-page collection includes contributions on the world situation on every continent in the final stage of the 20th century. Given the failure of social democracy, real socialism, and the nationalism of the poor countries, the goal was not only to describe the world today, but […]
Vol. 18-3 Attica: 1971-1991 — A Commemorative Issue
This issue provides a retrospective on the Attica rebellion, an assessment of prisoner struggles in the United States, Canada, England and Wales, and Japan since 1971, and thoughts on a new penology for the 1990s. It is of enduring historical value. TABLE OF CONTENTS Attica: The “Bitter Lessons” Forgotten? Robert P. Weiss, Editor [free pdf […]
Vol. 39:4
{click on the author’s name to read the abstract and purchase single articles} TABLE OF CONTENTS Victoria E. Collins and Dawn L. Rothe, United States Support for Global Social Justice? Foreign Intervention and Realpolitik in Egypt’s Arab Spring Micol Seigel, “Convict Race”: Racialization in the Era of Hyperincarceration Steve Martinot, On the Epidemic of Police Killings Harald Bauder, The Possibilities of […]
Vol. 42-3/4: Mexican and Chicanx Social Movements
Mexican and Chicanx Social Movements edited by Maylei Blackwell and Edward J. McCaughan This special double issue brings together the work of scholars and activists from Mexico and the United States, representing a variety of disciplines and movements, to discuss current trends in the scholarship and practices of Mexican and Chicanx social movements. The editors […]
Vol. 43-1 Miscellaneous
This issue brings together articles on prisoner reentry, judicial override in capital cases, self-determination for African descendants in Brazil, reintegrating deported migrants in Jamaica, the global war on drugs, and the Chilean New Song movement. TABLE OF CONTENTS “Punishment’s Twin”: Theorizing Prisoner Reentry for a Politics of Abolition Renée M. Byrd The Problem of Explanation: […]
Vol. 43-2
FRONT MATTER (pdf download) Abstracts (pdf download) TABLE OF CONTENTS Articles The Spectacle, Neoliberalism, and the Socially Dead Dawn Rothe and Victoria E. Collins My Brother’s Keeper: Mass Death in the Carceral State Ernest Kikuta Chavez Settler Colonialism and the Policing of Idle No More Andrew Crosby and Jeffrey Monaghan Commentary Who Polices the Police? […]
Vol. 43-3
FRONT MATTER (pdf download) Abstracts (pdf download) TABLE OF CONTENTS Articles Global Capitalism and the Restructuring of Education: The Transnational Capitalist Class’ Quest to Suppress Critical Thinking William I. Robinson Finding a Home in the Stop-and-Frisk Regime Wendy Wright Indigenous Peoples and the Globalization of Restorative Justice Juan Marcellus Tauri Switzerland’s Apology for Compulsory Government-Welfare […]
Vol. 43-4
FRONT MATTER (pdf download) Abstracts (pdf download) TABLE OF CONTENTS Articles Critical Criminologies of the Present and Future: Left Realism, Left Idealism, and What’s Left In Between Eric Madfis & Jeffrey Cohen (Stop) Deporting Pegah: Sovereignty, (Public) Sex, and (Life)/Death Azar Masoumi Rewriting Torture: Manufacturing a Primer of Abuse in US Domestic Prisons Susan A. […]
Vol. 44-1: Ethnographic Explorations of Punishment and the Governance of Security
Ethnographic Explorations of Punishment and the Governance of Security edited by Robert Werth This special issue highlights the growth of ethnographic examinations of penal governance across multiple disciplines, emphasizing the possibilities and the potential blind spots of ethnography as a methodology for studying penality. By analyzing phenomena as varied as pre-trial incarceration, parole and reentry, female […]
Vol. 44-2/3: Neoliberal Confinements: Social Suffering in the Carceral State
Neoliberal Confinements: Social Suffering in the Carceral State edited by Alessandro De Giorgi & Benjamin Fleury-Steiner This special issue aims to provide a cartography of some of the forms of social suffering experienced by marginalized and oppressed populations in the US carceral state. The contributors extend their gaze beyond the prison and its ancillary institutions […]
Vol. 44-4
FRONT MATTER (pdf download) Abstracts (pdf download) TABLE OF CONTENTS Articles The Idea of Progress, Industrialization, and the Replacement of Indigenous Peoples: The Muskrat Falls Megadam Boondoggle Colin Samson Material Conditions of Detroit’s Great Rebellion Mark Jay & Virginia Leavell Myanmar: Promoting Reconciliation between the Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists of Rakhine State Katja Weber & […]
Vol. 45-1: Emancipatory Justice: Confronting the Carceral State
Emancipatory Justice: Confronting the Carceral State edited by Michael Hallett This special issue of Social Justice expands previous editions’ explorations of emancipatory justice and incarceration. The issue begins with the premise that addressing structural violence is the greatest single challenge to establishing mechanisms of emancipatory justice. Looking beyond the prison walls, contributors identify areas in which new […]
Vol. 45-2/3
TABLE OF CONTENTS Histories of Abolition, Critiques of Security Brendan McQuade Rebranding Mass Incarceration: The Lippman Commission and Carceral Devolution in New York City Zhandarka Kurti & Jarrod Shanahan Reproducing Disorder: The Effects of Broken Windows Policing on Homeless People with Mental Illness in San Francisco Tony Sparks You Have the Right to Remain Violent: […]