Youth Crime, Moral Panics, and the News: The Conspiracy Against the Marginalized in Canada This article examines the role of the media in scapegoating youth and of manipulating or decontextualizing the perception of youth by the public. This “blaming” is found in historic constrictions and can be intervened with postmodern conceptions of power and its […]
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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
Julie Chu
Navigating the Media Environment: How Youths Claim a Place Through Zines The importance of media in the lives of children has received considerable attention. From theater to radio, and video to self-published zines, young people’s self-representations yield images, caricatures, and myths that shape public opinion. Refocusing the lens of current debates on media and youth–the […]
Justin Piché
Playing the “Treasury Card” to Contest Prison Expansion: Lessons from a Public Criminology Campaign This article explores how Canadian abolitionists have sought to tap into public anxieties about the economy to contest the further entrenchment of imprisonment through campaigns emphasizing the impact of punishment measures on the pocketbooks of taxpayers. Building on Loader’s discussion on […]
Mariana Favela
Redrawing Power: #YoSoy132 and Overflowing Insurgencies Favela reflects on her participation in the phenomenon known as #YoSoy132, a mass insurgency that erupted in the midst of the Mexican presidential electoral campaign of 2012. For her, this was neither a political organization, a structure, nor a movement, but rather a convocatory that gathered and unleashed a […]