Gregory Shank, ed. Twenty-eight contributors offer short memoirs, reflections, or longer critiques that commemorate a quarter century of publishing Social Justice. They candidly assess what has been accomplished (or not) since 1974 in terms of a progressive agenda and suggest future directions. The essays reflect the geographical diversity that has characterized the journal’s contents from […]
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40th Anniversary Issue: Legacies of Radical Criminology in the US, Vol. 40:1-2
Legacies of Radical Criminology in the United States On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of our journal, we are proud to announce the release of a special issue examining the history and the future of radical criminology. Building upon an academic seminar on the legacy of the Berkeley School of Criminology, infamously shut down […]
Abby Deshman and Kelly Hannah-Moffat
Advocacy and Academia: Considering Strategies of Cooperative Engagement This article examines the various dimensions of the “border regions” of the penal field, in which, despite the militarized borders erected by the penal state to segregate criminalized populations, encounters take place, connections are established, and alliances are created. This includes the production of policy-relevant criminological knowledge […]
Activist Scholarship: Possibilities and Constraints of Participatory Action Research, Vol. 36: 4, 2009
Shabnam Koirala-Azad and Emma Fuentes, eds. This issue of Social Justice reflects the research and voices of scholars who are concerned with issues of power and representation in academic scholarship. This work challenges existing hierarchies and power dynamics in social science research, creating new possibilities for research in the academy. Given the expansion of global […]
Adalberto Aguirre, Jr., and Rubén O. Martinez
The Foreclosure Crisis, the American Dream, and Minority Households in the United States: A Descriptive Profile Our purpose in this article is to examine how the home mortgage foreclosure crisis in the US affected racial and ethnic minority householders. The article is divided into the following sections: a brief overview of the home mortgage foreclosure […]
Adela Beckerman
Women in Prison: The Conflict between Confinement and Parental Rights In the United States and Canada most female prisoners are mothers. In the United States, women prisoners can be permanently separated from their children if they are unable to provide arrangements for childcare, or are unable to maintain regular contact. This article addresses the obstacles […]
Alejandro Álvarez Bejar
Tribute to Alonso Aguilar Monteverde: Ten Key Policies for Understanding the Neoliberal Transformation of Mexican Capitalism This tribute to teacher and social activist, Alonso Aguilar Monteverde, outlines crucial aspects of the neoliberal transformation of the Mexican socioeconomic system. Among the changes are aspects of the operation of capitalism in Mexico the political synthesis between economic […]
Alejandro Alvarez Béjar
Global Economic Crisis and Social Movements in Mexico and North America Alvarez highlights modalities of social resistance in Mexico at the national and regional levels, taking into consideration the current phase of the global capitalist crisis. The author first identifies the characteristic features of the global crisis of neoliberal capitalism. He then discusses the significance […]
Alessandro De Giorgi
Reform or Revolution: Thoughts on Liberal and Radical Criminologies De Giorgi argues in this essay that despite political affinities and a shared critique of “mass imprisonment,” significant theoretical and strategic differences between liberal and radical perspectives persist. mass imprisonment Citation: Social Justice Vol. 40, Nos. 1-2 (2013): 24-31
Alessandro De Giorgi
Five Theses on Mass Incarceration This essay provides a critical overview of the discursive field that has consolidated in recent years around the prison crisis in the United States. Written in the form of “five theses” on mass incarceration, the essay charts some emerging vectors of the current penal reform discourse, outlining their promises and […]
Alessandro De Giorgi
Book Review: Hadar Aviram, Cheap on Crime This review of Hadar Aviram’s Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment (2015) examines another important recent contribution in the field of punishment and society. book review, punishment, imprisonment Citation: Social Justice Vol. 42, No. 2 (2015): 195-200
Alexandra Cox
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 […]
Alicia Fentiman
The Anthropology of Oil: The Impact of the Oil Industry on a Fishing Community in the Niger Delta Anthropologist Alicia Fentiman makes a unique contribution to the study of environmental victimization through a culturally informed analysis of the circumstances in the Niger Delta. Her approach is quite distinct from the “race” perspectives of the U.S. […]
Andrew Crosby and Jeffrey Monaghan
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 […]
Ann Bar-Din
Refugees, Expelled Communities, and the Edge of War: A Chiapas Journal Activist-author Ann Bar-Din, offers information concerning the fate of the civilian, uninvolved population in the wake of the Zapatista uprising that is little known inside Mexico, given the area’s relative inaccessibility and the government-controlled television system. The observations and analysis are based on the […]
Anthony M. Platt
End Game: The Rise and Fall of Affirmative Action in Higher Education The author offers a historical analysis of affirmative action here, reviewing US “government-supported interventions” to stop and prevent systemic injustices in the last century. Platt provides examples of interventions: entitlement programs that included Civil War veterans’ benefits, World War II G.I. Bill benefits, […]