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 […]
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Juan Valdés Paz
The Socialist Transition in Cuba: Continuity and Change in the 1990s In the early 1990s, Cuba’s halting recovery from economic crisis initially plunged the government into total chaos at the ideological level and led to the introduction of significant elements of capitalism. Juan Valdes Paz outlines efforts at developing a new socialist paradigm that is […]
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 […]
Julie Chu
Navigating the Media Environment: How Youths Claim a Place Through Zines The importance of media in the lives of children has received considerable attention. From theater to radio, and video to self-published zines, young people’s self-representations yield images, caricatures, and myths that shape public opinion. Refocusing the lens of current debates on media and youth–the […]
Jurg Gerber and Eric Fritch
Organizational Crime in NASA and Among Its Contractors: Using a Newspaper as a Data Source Jurg Gerber and Eric Fritsch’s research carries on the muckraking tradition that has long played a prominent role in American progressive social thought. Although corporate law breaking is perceived to be common, the authors note that data are difficult to […]
Justice Under Clinton, Vol. 22: 2, 1995
Edited by Raymond J. Michalowski and Ronald Kramer This special issue of Social Justice was conceptualized during the early debates about the likely impact of Bill Clinton’s administration on justice in the United States. The plan was to assemble articles that would assess what was happening in various public policy areas under the leadership of the […]
Justin Piché
Playing the “Treasury Card” to Contest Prison Expansion: Lessons from a Public Criminology Campaign This article explores how Canadian abolitionists have sought to tap into public anxieties about the economy to contest the further entrenchment of imprisonment through campaigns emphasizing the impact of punishment measures on the pocketbooks of taxpayers. Building on Loader’s discussion on […]
Justin Piché
Assessing the Boundaries of Public Criminology: On What Does (Not) Count The author interrogates the project of a “public criminology” and assesses what counts as scholarly engagement within this criminological framework through an analysis of its objectives, publics, and practices. In this context, Piché criticizes public criminology for pursuing a reformist agenda that buttresses the […]
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 […]
Karen Musalo & Blaine Bookey
Crimes without Punishment: An Update on Violence against Women and Impunity in Guatemala The authors provide an overview of the prevalence and patterns of violence against women in Guatemala, which has one of the highest rates of femicide, or gender-motivated killing of women, in the world. They examine barriers to effective implementation of the laws […]
Karen Wald
The San Quentin Six Case: Perspective and Analysis Wald exposes deteriorating prison conditions and describes prisoners’ resistance under monopoly capitalism. The article details the San Quentin Six case, which had its roots in the long history of prisoner resistance, the rise of the prison support movement, and the efforts of the state to smash and […]
Kathryn Blackmer Reyes
Elizabeth Sutherland / Elizabeth “Betita” Sutherland Martínez: Bibliography, 1960–2013 Elizabeth Martínez’s collective writings. Elizabeth “Betita” Sutherland Martínez Citation: Social Justice Vol. 39, No. 2-3 (2012): 12-25
Katja Weber & Allison Stanford
Myanmar: Promoting Reconciliation between the Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists of Rakhine State One of the most pressing challenges Myanmar confronts is the mistreatment of the Rohingya in Rakhine state. Although Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy’s landslide victory in November 2015 has given reason for cautious optimism, a multistage process of reconciliation between […]
Kelly (Hannah) Moffat
Creating Choices or Repeating History: Canadian Female Offenders and Correctional Reform This article examines the conclusions of a recent Task Force on women in Canadian prisons. The Task Force helped to illuminate the plight of women, especially Native offenders (who represent a disproportionate number of incarcerated women in Canada). Although the Task Force recommendations for […]
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Final Statement to the Tribunal Statement of Nigerian activist delivered address in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, on September 1, 1995. He was killed by the Nigerian government on November 10, 1995. executions, Nigeria — politics, prisoners, political Citation: Social Justice Vol. 23, No. 4 (1996): 7-8