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 […]
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Neil Websdale
An Ethnographic Assessment of the Policing of Ethnic Violence in Rural Eastern Kentucky Neil Websdale extends to rural communities the body of research on the experiences of battered women and the nature and extent of interpersonal violence against women. It raises questions about the marginalization of rural women, the violence they experience, and the often […]
Paul Takagi
A Garrison State in “Democratic” Society Paul Takagi’s “A Garrison State in ‘Democratic’ Society” (1974) locates his groundbreaking exposé of police violence against black men in the control of “surplus labor” and the rise of new forms of domestic counterinsurgency. police killings of civilians Citation: Social Justice Vol. 40, Nos. 1-2 (2013): 118-130
Policing Protest and Youth, Vol. 36: 1, 2009
Gregory Shank, ed. This issue of Social Justice examines the historical roots of recent forms of domestic spying and the fear campaigns that justify such programs–as well as the wars on crime, drugs, and terror. Authors look at how globalization affects policing practices in the United States, including the policing of protest and of inner-city […]
Policing the Crisis–Policing in Crisis, Vol. 38:1-2, 2011
Kendra Briken and Volker Eick, eds. This issue of Social Justice discusses recent policing and security strategies, civil rights, and crime policy within the framework of the current financial and economic crisis. Contributors focus on various aspects of urban policing in crisis, such as recent developments in the “governance” of urban spaces. Some articles analyze […]
Policing, Detention, Deportation, and Resistance, Vol. 36: 2, 2009
Jodie Michelle Lawston and Martha Escobar, eds. This issue of Social Justice demonstrates that imprisonment, including immigrant detention, is essential to the US drive to preserve geopolitical dominance. It examines activist efforts to resist this trend and urges the building of bridges between prison abolition and immigrant justice work. The issue brings together a multiplicity […]
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 […]
Securing the Imperium: Criminal Justice Privatization and Neoliberal Globalization (Vol. 34, Nos. 3-4, 2007)
Bob Weiss, ed. This issue of Social Justice discusses the current resurgence, global expansion, and market concentration of the private security industry. Privatization of police, prisons, and the military is addressed in terms of the United States, China, Latin America, the UK, Australia, and South Africa. The issue covers capturing new capitalist frontiers; global market […]
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. 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. 44-2/3: 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. 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: […]
Vol. 47-1/2
Abstracts (pdf download) TABLE OF CONTENTS In the Sites of Operation Condor: Memory and Afterlives of Clandestine Detention Centers Michael Welch Rounding Up the Undesirables: The Making of a Prostitution-Targeted Loitering Law in New York City Karen Struening Social Movements in Juvenile Prisons: An Investigation Alexandra L. Cox Exhausting People, Extracting Revenue: Police, Prisons, and Counterinsurgency Matthew […]
Vol. 47-3/4 — A Critical Theory of Police Power
A Critical Theory of Police Power in the Twenty-First Century edited by Mark Neocleous and the Anti-security Collective This special issue advances a critical theory of police power focusing on the inextricable link between the violence of police, the organization of the state, and the reproduction of capital. Analyzing police power from different perspectives and at different scales, the […]
Vol. 48-1
Abstracts (pdf download) TABLE OF CONTENTS Police Abolition as Community Struggle against State Violence Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land & Kevin Walby [read blog by the authors] What Works and What Doesn’t When Policing People with Mental Health Issues Jerry Flores & Joyce Chua On the Outs: Global Capitalism and Transcarceration Oscar Fabian Soto [read blog by the author] […]