TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACTS [pdf download] Seize the Space: Angela Davis, Michel Foucault, and the Meaning of La Bataille Michael Welch A Community Vision of Police Abolition: Lessons on Theorizing from Below Jesse S.G. Wozniak Self-Harm in Prison and Abolition Feminism: Resisting Resistance Narratives and Framing Self-Harm as Carceral Violence Kolleen Duley Abolition as a […]
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Vol. 49-3 – Beyond Racialized Carceral Safety
Beyond Racialized Carceral Safety: Toward a Conceptualization of Black Safety edited by Enkeshi Thom El-Amin, Shaneda Destine & Michelle Brown TABLE OF CONTENTS Editors’ Introduction [free pdf download] Beyond Racialized Carceral Safety: Toward a Conceptualization of Black Safety Enkeshi Thom El-Amin, Shaneda Destine & Michelle Brown Black Safety: Threats of Gentrification to Practices of Freedom in […]
Vol. 49-1/2
TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACTS [pdf download] Eddie Ellis, Credible Messengers, and the Neoliberal Imagination of Anti-Violence David C. Brotherton Police Abolitionism: A Marxist Critique Howard Ryan Abolitionist Entanglements with Guards: Engagements to Deepen Analysis and Organizing Erica R. Meiners Uncomfortable Kinship: An Ethnography of the Professional World of Gang Experts and Street Outreach Workers in […]
Vol. 48-4
TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACTS [pdf download] Universal Basic Income, Social Justice, and Marginality: A Critical Evaluation Anthony J. Knowles Police as Supercitizens Brittany Arsiniega & Matthew Guariglia Crossing the Line(s): The School of the Americas, Radical Pedagogy, and Sacrificial Activism Ralph Armbruster Sandoval From Fledgling Network to the Creation of an Official Division of the […]
Vol. 48-3
TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACTS [pdf download] Entangling Intentionality: Reflections on Torture and Structure Ergün Cakal Carving the Terrain of Freedom: The Multidimensionality of Youth-Focused Abolition Geography Kaitlyn J. Selman Violent Symbiosis: The History of CCJ’s Role in Legitimizing Racialized Police Violence Ryan Phillips, Brian Pitman & Stephen T. Young “Oscar Did Not Die in Vain”: […]
Vol. 48-2 – Neoliberalism in Higher Education
Neoliberalism in Higher Education: Practices, Policies, and Issues edited by Adalberto Aguirre, Jr. & Rubén O. Martinez TABLE OF CONTENTS Editors’ Introduction Neoliberalism in Higher Education: Practices, Policies, and Issues [free pdf download] Adalberto Aguirre, Jr. & Rubén O. Martinez Changing Higher Education in the United Kingdom: Examining Three Trends through a Neoliberal Lens Amy Perry […]
Vol. 48-1
Abstracts (pdf download) TABLE OF CONTENTS Police Abolition as Community Struggle against State Violence Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land & Kevin Walby [read blog by the authors] What Works and What Doesn’t When Policing People with Mental Health Issues Jerry Flores & Joyce Chua On the Outs: Global Capitalism and Transcarceration Oscar Fabian Soto [read blog by the author] […]
Vol. 47-3/4 — A Critical Theory of Police Power
A Critical Theory of Police Power in the Twenty-First Century edited by Mark Neocleous and the Anti-security Collective This special issue advances a critical theory of police power focusing on the inextricable link between the violence of police, the organization of the state, and the reproduction of capital. Analyzing police power from different perspectives and at different scales, the […]
Vol. 47-1/2
Abstracts (pdf download) TABLE OF CONTENTS In the Sites of Operation Condor: Memory and Afterlives of Clandestine Detention Centers Michael Welch Rounding Up the Undesirables: The Making of a Prostitution-Targeted Loitering Law in New York City Karen Struening Social Movements in Juvenile Prisons: An Investigation Alexandra L. Cox Exhausting People, Extracting Revenue: Police, Prisons, and Counterinsurgency Matthew […]
Vol. 46-4 – Punishment and History
Punishment and History edited by Ashley T. Rubin This special issue appraises the role of history in the study of punishment, illuminating its utility and limitations for understanding penal change. Rather than seeking the origins of mass incarceration, as others have done, this issue examines how penal history might provide lessons for understanding punishment as a social […]
Vol. 46-2/3 – Policing the Protest Cycle of the 2010s
Please note: This issue has not been published yet. You may purchase a digital copy for immediate download or pre-order a printed copy below (shipping in September 2020). Policing the Protest Cycle of the 2010s edited by Manuel Maroto, Ignacio González-Sánchez, and José A. Brandariz This special issue analyzes the cycle of protests that has swept […]
Vol. 46-1 – Unsettling Debates: Women and Peace Making
Unsettling Debates: Women and Peace Making edited by Suzy Kim, Gwyn Kirk, and M. Brinton Lykes This issue presents a critical exploration of women’s past contributions and future potential in making peace. Adopting a transnational perspective, the contributors highlight the various ways in which women seeking a just peace have organized against militarized patriarchy and its forms […]
Vol. 45-4 – Penal Abolition: Challenging Boundaries
Penal Abolition: Challenging Boundaries edited by Michael J. Coyle & Judah Schept The present issue’s focus reflects abolition’s foundational questioning of the material boundaries of capitalist societies—borders, prisons, property—as well as the matériel of those boundaries—barbed wire, cages, fences, walls, and increasingly their electronic manifestations. Whereas some reform efforts aim to tweak the size and […]
Vol. 45-2/3
TABLE OF CONTENTS Histories of Abolition, Critiques of Security Brendan McQuade Rebranding Mass Incarceration: The Lippman Commission and Carceral Devolution in New York City Zhandarka Kurti & Jarrod Shanahan Reproducing Disorder: The Effects of Broken Windows Policing on Homeless People with Mental Illness in San Francisco Tony Sparks You Have the Right to Remain Violent: […]
Vol. 45-1: Emancipatory Justice: Confronting the Carceral State
Emancipatory Justice: Confronting the Carceral State edited by Michael Hallett This special issue of Social Justice expands previous editions’ explorations of emancipatory justice and incarceration. The issue begins with the premise that addressing structural violence is the greatest single challenge to establishing mechanisms of emancipatory justice. Looking beyond the prison walls, contributors identify areas in which new […]
Review Symposium: Progressive Punishment, by Judah Schept
REVIEW SYMPOSIUM Progressive Punishment: Job Loss, Jail Growth, and the Neoliberal Logic of Carceral Expansion, by Judah Schept Contributors: Michelle Brown, Alessandro De Giorgi, Keramet Reiter & Judah Schept FORMAT: PDF (download link available after purchase) • • •