A Bright Spot in the Yard poem poetry Citation: Social Justice Vol. 18, No. 3 (1991): 266-267
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Jim Thomas and Sharon Boehlefeld
Rethinking Abolitionism: “What Do We Do with Henry?” Review of de Haan, The Politics of Redress In their review of Willem de Haan’s book, the authors assess the sad state of affairs concerning the penal question and discuss the merits and prospects for penal abolition. Whatever its flaws, the authors argue, abolitionism has value in […]
Joanne Clark
Snapshots of Monroe Reformatory poem poetry Citation: Social Justice Vol. 18, No. 3 (1991): 264-264
Juan Marcellus Tauri
Indigenous Peoples and the Globalization of Restorative Justice Much of the criminological research and literature to date on the globalization of crime control has focused on macro-level theorizing about whether such globalization exists, and if so, its extent, scale, and impact. Little attention has been paid to the micro-level impact of all this activity, and […]
Martin B. Miller
A Heartless Anatomy of Five Prison Riots The reviewer argues that authors Bert Useem and Peter Kimbal seriously search for the causes of prison riots, but etiology is a trap that has seduced many a scholar. The climate of fear, hatred, and destruction that pervades prison life is publicly exposed when riots occur; the fault […]
Megan Sallomi
Coopting the Antiviolence Movement: Why Expanding DNA Surveillance Won’t Make Us Safer Expanding the number of individuals with DNA “profiles” stored in nationwide criminal databanks appears to be a promising criminal justice reform, particularly for resolving crimes of sexual violence. Bills like the Violence Against Women Act provide for DNA databank expansion, and many anti-rape organizations support this development. Yet, […]
Micol Seigel
Paul Kaplan and Jackson Dunn
The Problem of Explanation: Understanding the Scandal of Judicial Override in Capital Cases In this article, the authors analyze the intertwined problems of judgment and explanation through a comprehensive study of judicial override opinions. Of the 33 states that employ capital punishment, three-Alabama, Delaware, and Florida-are unusual in that the final decision on the death […]
Piri Thomas
From: Seven Long Times Citation: Social Justice Vol. 18, No. 3 (1991): 255-263
Ragnhild Utheim
The Case for Higher Education in Prison: Working Notes on Pedagogy, Purpose, and Preserving Democracy College programs inside prison comprise important sites of personal, interpersonal, and sociopolitical transformation that reach beyond the overt confines and consequences of imprisonment. Correctional education can serve as an important crossroads for civic engagement and cultural exchange in our quest […]
Renee Byrd
“Punishment’s Twin”: Theorizing Prisoner Reentry for a Politics of Abolition Each year, approximately 700,000 people are released from prison. Prisoner reentry has emerged as an object of knowledge and intervention in profound new ways over the last decade. The immediate survival needs of people released from prison are vital issues for building the prison abolitionist […]
Review Symposium: 23/7, by Keramet Reiter
Review Symposium: 23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement, by Keramet Reiter Anxiety and the Racialized Logic of Mass Incarceration in California Francisco Diaz Casique A Released Prisoner’s Perspective on 23/7 Steven Czifra Losing Direction Mariposa McCall Four Important Lessons from 23/7 Franklin E. Zimring Response: Retaking the Archive of Knowledge about […]
Review Symposium: Captive Nation, by Dan Berger
Review Symposium: Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era, by Dan Berger Material and Metaphor: Captive Nation and the Contours of Prison Radicalism Sarah Haley Prison Movement History for the Era of #BlackLivesMatter Toussaint Losier Babylon War: Black Nationalism, Black Imprisonment, and White Supremacy Waldo Martin Prison Organizing as Tradition and Imperative: A Response to […]
Ruth Needleman
Brazil: Recognizing the Right to Self-Determination for African-Descendants Brazil and the United States had the largest slave populations in the hemisphere, and, as a result, comparable institutionalized racism and inequalities. At least until the recent “congressional coup” and move to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, Brazil had taken major steps to face its heritage of genocide. […]
Sexuality, Criminalization, and Social Control Action Research, Vol. 37:1, 2010
Clare Sears, Andreanna Clay, Jessica Fields, and Alexis Martinez This issue of Social Justice examines aspects of the sexual politics of criminalization in the context of a three-decade long strategy for increasingly managing social problems through penal measures. To date, scholars have critically considered race in studies of criminalization, examining the severe and disproportionate effects […]
Steve Martinot
On the Epidemic of Police Killings This essay seeks to clarify conceptually the common structure uniting many of the incidents in the recent crescendo of police killings of people of color, going beyond their shared racist framework. In tandem with the “new Jim Crow” that Michelle Alexander describes, these killings pertain to the role of the police as […]