Legacies of Radical Criminology in the United States On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of our journal, we are proud to announce the release of a special issue examining the history and the future of radical criminology. Building upon an academic seminar on the legacy of the Berkeley School of Criminology, infamously shut down […]
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Applied Research and Social Justice, Vol. 30: 4, 2003
Laurie M. Joyner and Edward J. McCaughan, eds. This issue of Social Justice examines how social science research can contribute to the pursuit of social justice through its direct application to resolving concrete social problems, aiding organizing efforts, informing public policy, influencing legislation, or changing institutions. Purchase articles (click on the author link to read […]
Art, Power, and Social Change, Vol. 33: 2, 2006
Edward J. McCaughan and Emmanuel David, eds. This issue of Social Justice is the first of two on the topic, with both edited by Edward J. McCaughan and Emmanuel David. The essays explore many dimensions of the role of art in processes of social change. Some address the power of art as a voice of […]
Beenash Jafri
COMMENTARY Intellectuals Outside the Academy: Conversations with Leanne Simpson, Steven Salaita, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs These conversations with independent academics Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Steven Salaita, and Leanne Simpson were inspired by the following questions: How do we make sense of intellectual work that happens outside of the chokehold of academic institutions? Is it possible to […]
Children and the Environment, Vol. 24: 3, 1997
Edited by Sandra Meucci and Michael Schwab This special issue is about involving children in environmental planning and urban change. Taking children seriously as self-determining social actors has led to increasing acceptance of children’s place in movements to shape the future. The term “environment” is used broadly to mean children’s rights, social welfare policy, how […]
Community Accountability: Emerging Movements to Transform Violence, Vol. 37:4, 2010
Alisa Bierria, Mimi Kim, and Clasissa Rojas, eds. The editors of this issue offer unique advantages due to their experience with grassroots organizations, antiviolence activism within communities of color, and participants in debates about prisons and police responses to violence. Their feminist praxis as scholar/activists is reflected in the scope and breadth of this volume. […]
Critical Resistance to the Prison-Industrial Complex
Edited by the Critical Resistance Publications Collective. 240 pp., paper. ISBN: 978-0-935206-03-6. $14.95 This special issue of Social Justice, edited by Critical Resistance, focuses on prison abolition as a goal and theme. The issue is broadly divided into system analyses and articles centering on organizing for change, that is, reports of struggles against the system and […]
Devra Anne Weber
“Different Plans”: Indigenous Pasts, the Partido Liberal Mexicano, and Questions about Reframing Binational Social Movements of the 20th Century Inspired by evidence found while researching the grassroots base of the binational Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM) of the early twentieth century, Weber argues that indigenous organizing in binational and other social movements is more a continuity […]
Environmental Victims, Vol. 23: 4, 1996
Edited by Christopher Williams This issue examines environmentally mediated injury and seeks to change the perception of those who suffer from that of sick patients who are simply in need of treatment, to one of “environmental victims” who deserve justice. It reflects a wide range of interested parties and national perspectives, with academic contributors, frontline […]
Gregory Shank
Reflections on 40 Years of Social Justice The author examines the key themes that emerge over 40 years of publishing Social Justice, highlighting significant political and economic contexts. Social Justice history Citation: Social Justice Vol. 40, No. 3 (2013): 119-123
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 […]
Olga Talamante
De Campesina a Internacionalista (From Farmworker Girl to Internationalist): Encuentros y Desencuentros The author, a veteran Chicana activist and former political prisoner, describes her journey from child farm laborer to international human rights activist, feminist, and LGBT rights advocate. Talamante traces the origins of her political consciousness to the fields of California’s Santa Clara Valley, […]
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) • • •
Roger Hart, Collette Daiute, Selim Iltus, David Kritt, Michaela Rome, and Kim Sabo
Developmental Theory and Children’s Participation in Community Organizations This article discusses the changing ecology of children from different cultures as their identity and their understanding of the social world take shape. Identity is essentially a social concept, one that feminist psychological theorists link to political struggle, and children need to be involved in community in […]
Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo
Social Justice and Feminist Activism: Writing as an Instrument of Collective Reflection in Prison Spaces The author describes her experience working as an academic and activist in penitentiary spaces in Mexico, with indigenous and mestiza women who are victims of a penal state that criminalizes poverty and social protest. With the purpose of cultivating ethnographic […]
SOC 492 READER
SOC 492 – Sociology of Art San Francisco State University Prof. Edward McCaughan CONTENTS • Ian Gregory Strachan, “Theater in the Bush: Art, Politics, and Community in the Bahamas.” Social Justice 34(1):80–96. • Cynthia Fowler, “Hybridity as a Strategy for Self-Determination in Contemporary American Indian Art,” Social Justice 34(1):63–79. • Amy Jo Goddard, “Staging Activism: […]