Gregory Shank (coord.) This issue demonstrates the interplay between world-systems theory, radical criminology, and human and civil rights struggles. Contributions emphasize theoretical concerns and implications for praxis and policy. Overarching themes concern the need to formulate imaginative global and local alternatives that take into account the shifting sands of historical advances in civil and political […]
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Herman Schwendinger and Julia Schwendinger
Defenders of Order or Guardians of Human Rights? Originally published in 1970, this path-breaking essay challenged criminology’s dominant managerial paradigm and called for a break with positivist, technocratic definitions of “crime.” definition of crime, human rights Citation: Social Justice Vol. 40, Nos. 1-2 (2013): 87-117
Human Rights, Gender Politics, and Postmodern Discourses, Vol. 26: 1, 1999
Gregory Shank (coord.) Three themes stand out in this issue of Social Justice. The first is human rights violations as they apply within the U.S., in NATO’s war in Kosovo, in Tibet, and vis-à-vis girl children and young women worldwide. The second centers on the contest over gender issues in social policy: the Christian Right’s […]
Immigration: A Civil Rights Issue for the Americas in the 21st Century, Vol. 23: 3, 1996
Edited by Susanne Jonas and Suzie Dod Thomas Public policy on immigration will be central to determining the form and character of US society in the 21st century. The political Right has so far seized the initiative in defining the parameters of that discussion, in effect limiting national debate to choosing between degrees of restrictionism. […]
Katja Weber & Allison Stanford
Myanmar: Promoting Reconciliation between the Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists of Rakhine State One of the most pressing challenges Myanmar confronts is the mistreatment of the Rohingya in Rakhine state. Although Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy’s landslide victory in November 2015 has given reason for cautious optimism, a multistage process of reconciliation between […]
Michael Welch
The Immigration Crisis: Detention as an Emerging Mechanism of Social Control Michael Welch discusses the immigration crisis viewing detention as a form of social control. Detaining large numbers of undocumented immigrants is a relatively recent development in Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) policy. Until the 1980s, only those deemed likely to flee and hide or […]
Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Industrial Hazards and Human Rights
Charter on Industrial Hazards and Human Rights Signs of optimism about environmental justice come in the form of the Charter of Rights Against Industrial Hazards. Hope does not derive simply from the Charter itself; if anything, it is further evidence of a seemingly intractable problem. It comes from the extraordinary success of the Permanent Peoples’ […]
Race, Class, and State Crime, Vol. 27: 1, 2000
Gregory Shank (coord.) Two themes stand out in this issue. The first concerns the intersection of race, class, and crime. Discussion centers on excessive police violence, criminalization based on racial and ethnic markers, the viability of electoral work versus strategies of civil disobedience, and the varieties of multiculturalism. The second theme revolves around patterns of […]
Robin C. Moore
The Need for Nature: A Childhood Right The eclipse of children’s access to the out of doors and its implications for their development are the subject of Robin Moore’s “Childhood Without Nature: The Right to Experience.” Moore enumerates factors restricting access to the outdoors as he discusses social and environmental aspects of the changing ecology […]
Ruth Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada
Grassroots Peacemaking: The Paradox of Reconciliation in El Salvador This article challenges the premises of “reconciliation” for state-led processes that reunites post-conflict societies. Based on ethnographic research in El Salvador, it is argued that such efforts entail condemning human rights violations and celebrating the transition to peace, yet overlook socio-economic disparities. The result is a […]
Shadows of State Terrorism: Impunity in Latin America, Vol. 26: 4, 1999
J. Patrice McSherry and Raúl Molina Mejía, eds. On the cusp of the 21st century, the long shadows of state terrorism still haunt Latin America. For millions of people in the region, the memory of predator states that turned on their own citizens persists; for some, as in Colombia today, political violence and state terrorism […]
Special Issue: Bhopal and After: The Chemical Industry as Toxic Capitalism, Vol. 41-1/2
Published December 2014
Special issue: Foreclosure Crisis in the United States, Vol. 40-3
Edited by Adalberto Aguirre, Jr., and Ellen Reese. This issue focuses on the various ways in which the real estate foreclosure crisis affected families and communities in the United States. The crisis, created by the contradictions of global financial capitalism, transformed many neighborhoods and communities into empty wastelands and was especially devastating to black and […]
Special issue: Latin America Revisited, Vol. 40-4
Edited by Edward McCaughan and Susanne Jonas. With articles by veteran observers and activists as well as up-and-coming scholars, this issue discusses the current state of Latin America, now two decades into the uneven transitions to democracy following an era of dictatorships and armed revolutionary conflicts. The issue’s first section analyzes the historical and ongoing […]
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 […]