Due Process and the Reconstruction of Democracy This article attempts to rescue the concept of due process from the limited field of legal procedure to look instead at its political potential as well as the effects of its denial. I argue that due process as a principle is at the core of any concept of […]
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Steven Loyal & Stephen Quilley
Categories of State Control: Asylum Seekers and the Direct Provision and Dispersal System in Ireland The introduction of the system of direct provision and dispersal (DPDS) to house asylum seekers in Ireland was the result of a number of processes, performing several functions, inclduing the state’s twin desires to deter the further arrival of asylum […]
Steven Volk
Review: The Political Power of Music in Chile’s Popular Unity Period McSherry’s analysis opens the door to a reconsideration of political formation during the Popular Unity years, an essential historiographic contribution. book review, hegemony, Allende, Nueva Canción, Chile Citation: Social Justice Vol. 43, No. 1 (2016): 106-110
Susan A. Phillips
Rewriting Torture: Manufacturing a Primer of Abuse in US Domestic Prisons A college-level critical pedagogy project confirms that human rights reporting can play a role in prison abolition as opposed to reform. By writing an altered version of the ICRC torture papers, students compared US prison torture in domestic and military sites, confirmed the application […]
The World Today, Vol. 23: 1-2, 1996
Pablo González Casanova and John Saxe-Fernández Edited by Pablo González Casanova and John Saxe-Fernández, this special 375-page collection includes contributions on the world situation on every continent in the final stage of the 20th century. Given the failure of social democracy, real socialism, and the nationalism of the poor countries, the goal was not only […]
Ursula M. Baer
Switzerland’s Apology for Compulsory Government-Welfare Measures: A Social Justice Turn? This article offers some insights into the history of historical compulsory government-welfare measures and the issue of children and youth in state care. It introduces a barely known history (Switzerland’s compulsory government-welfare measures) and analyzes the content of the official apology Switzerland offered in 2013 […]
Victoria Collins & Dawn Rothe
Vol. 43-1 Miscellaneous
This issue brings together articles on prisoner reentry, judicial override in capital cases, self-determination for African descendants in Brazil, reintegrating deported migrants in Jamaica, the global war on drugs, and the Chilean New Song movement. TABLE OF CONTENTS “Punishment’s Twin”: Theorizing Prisoner Reentry for a Politics of Abolition Renée M. Byrd The Problem of Explanation: […]
Vol. 43-2
FRONT MATTER (pdf download) Abstracts (pdf download) TABLE OF CONTENTS Articles The Spectacle, Neoliberalism, and the Socially Dead Dawn Rothe and Victoria E. Collins My Brother’s Keeper: Mass Death in the Carceral State Ernest Kikuta Chavez Settler Colonialism and the Policing of Idle No More Andrew Crosby and Jeffrey Monaghan Commentary Who Polices the Police? […]
Vol. 43-3
FRONT MATTER (pdf download) Abstracts (pdf download) TABLE OF CONTENTS Articles Global Capitalism and the Restructuring of Education: The Transnational Capitalist Class’ Quest to Suppress Critical Thinking William I. Robinson Finding a Home in the Stop-and-Frisk Regime Wendy Wright Indigenous Peoples and the Globalization of Restorative Justice Juan Marcellus Tauri Switzerland’s Apology for Compulsory Government-Welfare […]
Vol. 43-4
FRONT MATTER (pdf download) Abstracts (pdf download) TABLE OF CONTENTS Articles Critical Criminologies of the Present and Future: Left Realism, Left Idealism, and What’s Left In Between Eric Madfis & Jeffrey Cohen (Stop) Deporting Pegah: Sovereignty, (Public) Sex, and (Life)/Death Azar Masoumi Rewriting Torture: Manufacturing a Primer of Abuse in US Domestic Prisons Susan A. […]
Wendy Wright
Finding a Home in the Stop-and-Frisk Regime NYPD’s stop-and-frisk program has been hailed as both a model of policing and a prime example of the evils associated with racial profiling. While its reform continues in New York City, police departments across the country are replicating its procedures, which targets of the practice describe as “humiliating,” […]
William I. Robinson
Global Capitalism and the Restructuring of Education: The Transnational Capitalist Class’ Quest to Suppress Critical Thinking As globalization has advanced there has been a dual process in the subordination of global labor. One mass of humanity has been dispossessed, marginalized, and locked out of productive participation in the global economy, while another has been incorporated […]