Questions and Answers About Affirmative Action Many of the gains won by the Civil Rights Movements of the 1960s were in danger of being overturned and affirmative action was rapidly becoming the most prominent target when an initiative in California to eliminate state-sponsored affirmative action programs made it on the 1996 ballot. The movement to […]
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Nancy Stein
Affirmative Action and the Persistence of Racism Nancy Stein frames the attack on affirmative action most recently the politically motivated vote by the University of California regents that eliminates affirmative action programs in admissions, hiring, and contracts as the latest in a series of efforts to roll back the rights of people of color. Such […]
Anthony M. Platt
No Easy Road to Freedom: Remapping the Struggle for Racial Equality In this paper Anthony M. Platt offers an overview of the struggle for racial equality within a global context. A useful survey of the trajectory and social context of the struggle for racial equality since World War II, the article traces the detour forced […]
Gregory Shank
Editorial Overview: Racial and Political Justice Issue overview. Citation: Social Justice Vol. 22, No. 3 (1995): 1-8
Robert P. Weiss
Review of Poveda, Rethinking White-Collar Crime A review by Robert P. Weiss of Tony Poveda’s book, Rethinking White-Collar Crime, is a critical survey of the nature, etiology, and control of white- collar crime in the United States. Weiss argues that Poveda’s project to “rethink” white-collar crime couldn’t be more timely. As the pendulum of class […]
Paul Jesilow, Gilbert Geis, and John Harris
Doomed to Repeat Our Errors: Fraud in Emerging Health-Care Systems This article focuses on fraud and waste as they have occurred in the past in the delivery of medical services and, most particularly, as they will occur in the quickly expanding health-care reforms. Though new delivery systems are being implemented at a rapid pace, only […]
William Chambliss
Another Lost War: The Costs and Consequences of Drug Prohibition William Chambliss critiques the current War on Drugs. This “war,” supported by Clinton almost as vigorously as by Reagan and Bush, has criminalized an entire generation of young minority men and women, institutionalized racism in criminal justice practices, and created widespread corruption in politics and […]
Ronald Kramer and Raymond Michalowski
The Iron Fist and the Velvet Tongue: Crime Control Policies in the Clinton Administration Kramer and Michalowski examine Bill Clinton’s actions on the crime-control issue from the campaign of 1992 to the passage of the crime bill in 1994. What they find is that although President Clinton speaks, quite eloquently at times, about preventing crime […]
Frederic I. Solop and Nancy A. Wonders
The Politics of Inclusion: Private Voting Rights Under the Clinton Administration Frederic Solop and Nancy Wonders explore the historical developments that culminated in the passage of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. This act, which expands ballot access by making voter registration services more widely available, became law because of President Clinton’s strong support. […]
Marsha Woodbury
Clinton, Reno, and Freedom of Information: From Waldheim to Whitewater Marsha Woodbury analyzes Bill Clinton and Janet Reno’s record with regard to the Freedom of Information Act. Woodbury reviews the origins and development of FOIA, the many ways in which Presidents Reagan and Bush restricted its operation, and the bureaucratic and judicial obstacles that block […]
Jonathan Simon
They Died with Their Boots On: The Boot Camp and the Limits of Modern Penality Jonathan Simon’s article continues the philosophical discourse on current practices of punishment. The Clinton administration, with its ethics of obligation, has been a strong supporter of penal boot camps. The 1994 crime bill contains $150 million for grants to the […]
James F. Doyle
A Radical Critique of Criminal Punishment James F. Doyle presents a radical philosophical critique of punishment. He draws a contrast between the “ethics of obligation” and the “ethics of social relations” as radically different normative approaches to law and criminal punishment. As Doyle makes clear, the ethics of obligation informs current criminal justice punishment strategies, […]
Raymond J. Michalowski and Ronald Kramer
Editors’ Introduction Issue overvierw. Clinton administration, justice Citation: Social Justice Vol. 22, No. 2 (1995): 1-6
Harold Pepinsky
Reply to Ackermann on The Geometry of Violence and Democracy Commentary on The Geometry of Violence and Democracy book review, criminology; social theory; individual and society Citation: Social Justice Vol. 22, No. 1 (1995): 145-146
Robert Ackermann
Crime and Individuality Robert Ackermann’s lively review of Harold Pepinsky’s The Geometry of Violence and Democracy notes that in defining crime as a politically arbitrary subset of violence, Pepinsky has written a powerful and moving book that explains the apparent irrelevance of much of what is normally considered criminology and offers the prospect of a […]
Devereaux Kennedy
Out of Time: The Curtis-Wells Anomaly and the History of American Corrections Devereaux Kennedy attempts to evaluate the significance of the reform school regimes of E.M.P. Wells and Joseph Curtis. Kennedy examines the utilitarian correctional theory and practice dominant in the U.S. during the 1820s and 1830s and the Progressive approach to corrections that held […]