Silence of the Left: Reflections on Critical Criminology and Criminologists Kenneth D. Tunnell makes the case that critical criminology and critical criminologists are valuable resources for enlightening the general public and political officials about crime and justice-related issues. Although their work is central in the contemporary U.S. to innovative, humanistic interpretations of crime and justice, […]
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Kevin Steinmetz and Jurg Gerber
“It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way”: Hacker Perspectives on Privacy The article examines hacker perspectives on privacy by analyzing the content of the widely circulated hacker zine 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. Four major themes emerge (dualisms, responsibility to protect privacy, ubiquity of threats, and the role hackers perform or should perform in privacy issues) […]
Kim Geron
The Local/Global Context of the Los Angeles Hotel-Tourism Industry Kim Geron describes institutional alliances taking place in the transnational landscape. The author puts forth the notion of social movement unionism as a response by labor unions and community groups to the internationalization of their economic institutions. social movement unionism, hotel-tourism industry, Los Angeles Citation: Social […]
Kiva Maidanik
The Problem of ‘Alternativeness’ in Russia’s Past, Present, and Eventual Future The author outlines the imperatives and elements faced by post-Soviet Russia that provide the historical opportunity for a different development. One alternative for overcoming the structural crisis combines the market with political democracy and social and national defense, aiming at a mixed economy. This […]
Law, Order, and Neoliberalism, Vol. 28: 3, 2001
Philomena Mariani, ed. This issue on the antiterrorist state and articles solicited before September 11 in which contributors explore the relationship between neoliberalism and models of criminal justice, the political and ideological factors driving criminal justice policy in the United States, and the willingness of other countries to follow the United States in adopting the […]
Leo Panitch
Globalization, States, and Left Strategies This article attempts to address the challenge posed to the Left by what has come to be known as “globalization.” The apparent subjection of even advanced capitalist social formations in recent decades to the competitive logics and exigencies of production, trade, and finance undertaken on a world scale is treated […]
Leonidas Cheliotis, Benjamin Fleury-Steiner, Mona Lynch, Rebecca McLennan, Tony Platt, and Jonathan Simon
Book Review Symposium: Jonathan Simon, Mass Incarceration on Trial An international review symposium featuring comments by five contributors discusses Jonathan Simon’s Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America (2014). This book takes on the difficult challenge of decrypting current penal trends and imagining the possible futures of […]
Lily Wong Fillmore
Equity and Education in the Age of New Racism: Issues for Educators The author articulates her perceptions of the state of equity, especially from the position of an educator. Wong Fillmore argues that biological, racially based theories have returned to the main stage of public discourse in the form of Herrnstein and Murray’s Bell Curve. […]
Lin Chun
Situating China In the 1990s, China was undergoing profound social transformations and moving somewhere beyond the previously known experiences of either traditional socialism or classical and present-day variations of capitalism. The author briefly examines the ambiguous post-Mao reform process and attempts to grasp the changes in their historical and international contexts. Alternatives and future possibilities […]
Linda Miller Matthei
Gender and International Labor Migration: A Networks Approach Linda Miller Matthei highlights the increasing importance of women as actors in the migration process. Contrary to long- held assumptions in migration research that males are the primary migrants, she argues that there is substantial(although fragmentary) evidence that both migrant and nonmigrant women are actively involved in […]
Lisa Guenther
Prison Beds and Compensated Man-Days: The Spatio-Temporal Order of Carceral Neoliberalism The Trousdale Turner Correctional Center is a 2,600-bed private prison owned and operated by CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America. It is located in Hartsville, Tennessee, on the former site of the Hartsville Nuclear Plant and PowerCom Industrial Center. In this paper, […]
Lisa Wright, Dawn Moore, and Vincent Kazmierski
Policing Carceral Boundaries: Access to Information and Research with Prisoners This article discusses the struggle of researchers and imprisoned populations to gain access to information about spaces of confinement. The authors provide a framework for penetrating the borders of the carceral system that is based on the experiences of many critical researchers who have been […]
Lizbet Simmons
Profiting from Punishment: Public Education and the School Security Market This article charts the invigoration of the penal state in an unlikely place: the American public school system. The US educational system and the US correctional system are quintessential representations of the social welfare state and the penal state respectively and are typically configured as […]
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 […]
Lowell Sachs
Treacherous Waters in Turbulent Times: Navigating the Recent Sea Change in U.S. Immigration Policy and Attitudes Lowell Sachs presents the view from Washington — the political pressures shaping immigration policies and debates in Congress. Now that immigrants are being viewed as a liability, he discusses the effort in Congress to “pull up the welcome mat […]
Mahmood Mamdani
Indirect Rule, Civil Society, and Ethnicity: The African Dilemma This article seeks to present an interpretation of post-independence African politics. The author’s central argument is that Saharan African countries face a threefold challenge in the post-independence period: decolonizing the state, deracializing civil society, and restructuring unequal external relations of dependency. Of these, the critical task […]