by Alessandro De Giorgi* In a much-quoted segment from the Prison Notebooks, Italian communist intellectual Antonio Gramsci outlined his famous definition of a crisis of hegemony: If the ruling class has lost its consensus, i.e., is no longer “leading” but … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
by Volker Eick* Since Nobel Peace Prize laureate and US president Barack Obama began targeted killings of supposed Islamic terrorists using Special Forces and the CIA in Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia,(1) an envious German government has sought to catch … Continue reading
by David Edgar* Ending with Thursday’s vote, the British general election campaign has been exceptional in many ways. Its result will almost certainly be indecisive and it’s possible that the shape of the new government will remain unknown for days … Continue reading
by Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land and Kevin Walby* Image by DANIEL ARAUZ via FLICKR. CC BY 2.0. Criminology and criminal justice studies have too often failed to incorporate lessons from the front lines of struggles for radical changes to the criminal … Continue reading
by Tom Bodenheimer* March 24, 2017 marked seven years and one day since the signing of the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) into law on March 23, 2010. On that seventh anniversary, House Speaker Paul Ryan abandoned the Republican plan to repeal … Continue reading
by Sylvia Mac* Since announcing his campaign, Trump has used a rhetoric that has proven to be divisive and harmful in very real ways to black and brown, immigrant, and LGBTQ students across the country. The days after his election … Continue reading
by John Raines* On March 8, 1971, a group calling itself the “Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI” broke into the FBI agency in Media, Pennsylvania, and removed all the files. I was part of that group. We sorted the … Continue reading
by Alessandro De Giorgi* The news has not garnered much attention on the national media, yet it is rather striking: for the first time in the last twenty years or so, crime has been rising in the United States for … Continue reading
by Cliff Welch* While Olympic athletes faced victory and defeat along the putrid shores of Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay, on the shores of sparkly Lake Paranoá in Brasilia, Brazil’s 36th president, Dilma Rousseff, faced only defeats as her enemies … Continue reading