Responsible Submission: The Racialized Consequences of Neoliberal Juvenile Justice Practices This article focuses on the racialized consequences of neoliberal juvenile justice practices. Based on over two years of ethnographic fieldwork inside of one state’s secure residential facilities and alternative to incarceration programs, the article scrutinizes contemporary intervention practices used with young people. These practices emphasize […]
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Judah Schept
“Keep Local Kids Local”: Departed Capital, Derelict Land, and (Neo)Liberal Detention Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in a small and progressive Midwestern city, this article examines discourses and practices of juvenile justice policy that purport to reject the politics of mass incarceration and yet which embrace local carceral expansion. In a community otherwise […]
Judah Schept, Tyler Wall, and Avi Brisman
Building, Staffing and Insulating: An Architecture of Criminological Complicity in the School-to-Prison Pipeline The concept of the school-to-prison pipeline illuminates and dissects the continuum between education and incarceration. Most often, the concept is deployed to call attention to the criminalization of youth of color in urban schools and the mechanisms that facilitate their entry into […]
Justin Turner
Being Young in the Age of Globalization: A Look at Recent Literature on Neoliberalism’s Effects on Youth This article presents new literature concerning recent trends involving the lived experiences of youth within a society seemingly focused on the axiomatic logics of neoliberalism. From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Movement, youth have been involved in […]
Losing a Generation: Probing the Myths and Reality of Youth and Violence, Vol. 24: 4, 1997
Nancy Stein, Susan Roberta Katz, Esther Madriz, and Shelley Shick, eds. Youth violence is among the most hotly debated and most deeply misunderstood issues today. The “gangsta” has become the new red menace of the 1990s, the target of societal fears in a time of a widening gap between the rich and the poor. Poor […]
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 […]
Randolph R. Myers and Tim Goddard
Pyrrhic Victory? Social Justice Organizations as Service Providers in Neoliberal Times Beginning in the late 1990s, the United States witnessed a proliferation of grassroots organizations focused on dismantling, and providing alternatives to, the contemporary justice system-challenging laws, their enforcement, and mobilizing for youth justice and criminal justice systems that are both effective and fair to […]
Vol. 41-4: Youth under Control: Punishment and Reform in the Neoliberal State
This special issue critically analyzes the social and penal policies aimed at young people in the United States, focusing in particular on the punitive role played by schools, juvenile courts, and community-based programs.
Juvenile Delinquency, Modernity, and the State, Vol. 38:4, 2011
Heather Ellis, ed. This issue of Social Justice explores the changing meanings of “juvenile delinquency” and the relation between juvenile crime discourses and state authority in the 19th and 20th centuries. Emphasis is on the histories of West and East Germany, Soviet Russia, and Scotland. Purchase articles (click on the author link to read the […]