Silence of the Left: Reflections on Critical Criminology and Criminologists Kenneth D. Tunnell makes the case that critical criminology and critical criminologists are valuable resources for enlightening the general public and political officials about crime and justice-related issues. Although their work is central in the contemporary U.S. to innovative, humanistic interpretations of crime and justice, […]
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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 […]
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: Executing Freedom, by Daniel LaChance
REVIEW SYMPOSIUM Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States, by Daniel LaChance Contributors: Lisa Miller, Jonathan Simon, Paul Kaplan, Mona Lynch, Patricia Ewick & Daniel LaChance FORMAT: PDF (download link available after purchase)
Rob White and John van der Velden
Class and Criminality Rob White and John van der Velden, analyze the relationship between crime and the class structure by exploring typical patterns of crime associated with specific classes and discuss attempts by the state to regulate and control capitalist marketplace activities and working-class life. Empirical indicators are drawn from the Australian context. The authors […]
Ronnie Lippens
Absolutely Sovereign Victims: Rethinking the Victim Movement This article attempts to rethink the emergence and subsequent development of what could be called the victim movement, or victim culture, which has crystallized in the latter half of the twentieth century. The author argues that a great variety of elements have, in the wake of World War […]
Shoshana Pollack and Tiina Eldridge
Complicity and Redemption: Beyond the Insider/Outsider Research Dichotomy The authors look at the creation of possibilities for collaborative research by scholars and criminalized subjects. A collaboration between an academic/practitioner (Shoshana) and a formerly incarcerated woman (Tiina), the article aims to disrupt conventional ways of conducting and writing about research. The focus is on the process […]
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, […]
Vincenzo Ruggiero
COMMENTARY The Economic Field and the End of Mass Incarceration In a recent special issue of Social Justice (Vol. 42-2), a series of critical contributions examine recent developments in North American penal systems, offering hypotheses around the apparent end of mass incarceration. This commentary adopts a materialistic perspective, taking as a starting point the work […]
Vol. 41-3
This issue includes a special section on PENAL ABOLITION AND PRISON REFORM; plus articles on US militarism in Latin America, hackers and privacy, the Víctor Jara case, and grassroots peacemaking in El Salvador. TABLE OF CONTENTS Militarism and Its Discontents: Neoliberalism, Repression, and Resistance in Twenty-First-Century US–Latin American Relations Ginger Williams & Jennifer Leigh Disney “It […]
Vol. 42-1: Miscellaneous
TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstracts [free pdf download] Anatomy of a Done Deal: The Fight over the Iran Nuclear Accord Gregory Shank Absolutely Sovereign Victims: Rethinking the Victim Movement Ronnie Lippens “Putting Cruelty First”: Liberal Penal Reform and the Rise of the Carceral State Jason Vick Sweetheart Settlements, the Financial Crisis, and Impunity: A Case Study of […]
Vol. 42-2: Beyond Mass Incarceration
BEYOND MASS INCARCERATION: CRISIS AND CRITIQUE IN NORTH AMERICAN PENAL SYSTEMS edited by Alessandro De Giorgi After decades of vertical increases in imprisonment rates, the US carceral system is in a state of structural crisis. A growing public awareness of the spiraling social and economic costs of this hypertrophic carceral machine seems to provide 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. 45-2/3
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: […]