Settler Colonialism and the Policing of Idle No More Idle No More is a grassroots movement that presents a powerful politics of resistance to settler colonialism. In response, security agencies in Canada have categorized the movement as both a criminal and a national security threat. This article is focused on the policing and surveillance of […]
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Attica: 1971–1991 — A Commemorative Issue (Vol. 18-3)
NOTE: OUT OF PRINT. DIGITAL EDITION ONLY. On the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the Attica rebellion, we are offering free access to a seminal interview with Michel Foucault following his visit to the prison (follow link in the table of contents below). Our classic 1991 commemorative issue, now available in digital format, provides a retrospective on the Attica rebellion, an assessment […]
Azar Masoumi
(Stop) Deporting Pegah: Sovereignty, (Public) Sex, and (Life)/Death This article reads the highly publicized lesbian refugee case of Pegah Emambakhsh in the UK to argue that the practice of sovereignty, particularly in relation to sexual minority refugees, is a deeply sexual practice. I draw on queer theory and theories of biopolitics and necropolitics to argue […]
Bernard Headley and Dragon Milovanovic
Rights and Reintegrating Deported Migrants for National Development: The Jamaican Model In May 2014, 32 international scholars in law, human rights, philosophy, and the social sciences met in conference at Boston College to fine tune a 33-article Convention, drafted by the College’s Law School Post-Deportation Human Rights Project, on the rights of forcibly expelled and/or […]
BOOK EXHIBIT PRICES
Daniel Patten
The Mass Incarceration of Nations and the Global War on Drugs: Making Comparisons between the United States Domestic and Foreign Drug Policies This article offers an overview of the current domestic war on drugs in the United States and the subsequent mass incarceration of individuals. The domestic and foreign drug policy fronts are compared by […]
Dawn Rothe and Victoria E. Collins
The Spectacle, Neoliberalism, and the Socially Dead Despite the architectural forms of socio-moral spatial exclusion that have become the dominant theme of cities as they strive to channel capital, homelessness persists in any city street in the United States and abroad. Political discourse across the United States promises to put an end to the barbaric […]
De Giorgi_Review of Melossi
Review of Dario Melossi, Crime, Punishment and Migration by Alessandro De Giorgi
Donald Zaremba
Escape poem poetry Citation: Social Justice Vol. 18, No. 3 (1991): 265-265
Eric Madfis & Jeffrey Cohen
Critical Criminologies of the Present and Future: Left Realism, Left Idealism, and What’s Left In Between This article argues for the benefits of advancing an innovative critical criminological approach that concerns itself explicitly and simultaneously with both the criminology of the present and the criminology of the future. We put forth the idea that left […]
Ernest Kikuta Chavez
My Brother’s Keeper: Mass Death in the Carceral State As the number of prisoners in the United States who die from terminal illness, old age, and deteriorating health conditions reaches unparalleled proportions, scholars who study punishment ought to extend their focus to the ways in which mass incarceration is producing what is referred to in […]
Gene Grabiner
Government and Market Surveillance, Emergence of Mass Political Society, and the Need for Progressive Social Change In this commentary, the author examines the political implications of the documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. The essay examines the larger post-World War II intelligence framework that sought to ensure polarized centers of wealth and power, and it also draws lessons […]
Gene Grabiner
Who Polices the Police? This article examines discriminatory, aggressive, and violent policing within the framework of structural and cultural violence and offers some observations about the class character of policing in America. It also provides recommendations for improved police practice, including community policing, deescalation training, more stringent public regulation of policing, and the demilitarization of […]
Hanink_Review of Murakawa
Review of Naomi Murakawa, The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America Peter A. Hanink
Harald Bauder
Possibilities of Open Borders and No Border An overarching constraint for free human mobility is that international political borders are only selectively permeable. Drawing on Ernst Bloch’s work on the possible, the author examines open-borders and no-border arguments and explores the conditions of their possibilities. Although open-borders and no-border narratives serve as a powerful negation of contemporary conditions […]
Immigration: A Civil Rights Issue for the Americas in the 21st Century, Vol. 23: 3, 1996
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. Immigration: A […]