The Bombs Explode at Home: Policing, Prisons, and Permanent War In 1967 Dr. Martin Luther King observed: “The bombs in Vietnam explode at home. The security we profess to seek in foreign ventures we will lose in our decaying cities.” His words resonated amidst widespread social protest against Cold War policies designed to contain communism […]
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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 […]
Lizbet Simmons
Profiting from Punishment: Public Education and the School Security Market This article charts the invigoration of the penal state in an unlikely place: the American public school system. The US educational system and the US correctional system are quintessential representations of the social welfare state and the penal state respectively and are typically configured as […]
Paul T. Takagi: Recollections and Writings
Paul T. Takagi and Gregory Shank (2012), 156 pp., paper, ISBN 978-0-9352060-1-2. $21.95 This collection of biographical essays also includes Paul T. Takagi’s previously unpublished writings. It reviews a 140-year period in which Japanese Americans forged a new trans-Pacific identity. Historians will find a fresh interpretation of the reasons behind the tragic episode of placing […]
The Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove
OUT OF STOCK Tony Platt et al. (2nd printing, 1977). 232 pp., paper, ISBN 0-935206-02-07. $19.95 “To round out the list of books that influenced my own development … I must mention the 1977 edition of an important work on the American policing, The Iron Fist and Velvet Glove: An Analysis of the U. S. Police. First […]
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. 46-2/3 – Policing the Protest Cycle of the 2010s
Please note: This issue has not been published yet. You may purchase a digital copy for immediate download or pre-order a printed copy below (shipping in September 2020). Policing the Protest Cycle of the 2010s edited by Manuel Maroto, Ignacio González-Sánchez, and José A. Brandariz This special issue analyzes the cycle of protests that has swept […]