An Ethnographic Assessment of the Policing of Ethnic Violence in Rural Eastern Kentucky Neil Websdale extends to rural communities the body of research on the experiences of battered women and the nature and extent of interpersonal violence against women. It raises questions about the marginalization of rural women, the violence they experience, and the often […]
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Kenneth D. Tunnell
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, […]
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 […]
Rob White and John van der Velden
Class and Criminality Rob White and John van der Velden, analyze the relationship between crime and the class structure by exploring typical patterns of crime associated with specific classes and discuss attempts by the state to regulate and control capitalist marketplace activities and working-class life. Empirical indicators are drawn from the Australian context. The authors […]
Ronnie Lippens
Critical Criminologies and the Reconstruction of Utopia Ronnie Lippens make a plea for renewed utopian thinking in critical criminology. Critical criminology must avoid nihilism and postmodernist impossibilism, along with its fragmenting dynamics. Instead, it must make substantial efforts to fight the contemporary (postmodern) condition, where possibilities and opportunities for human emancipatory action are splintered, and […]
Piers Beirne
The Use and Abuse of Animals in Criminology: A Brief History and Current Review Beirne’s project is simply to place animal abuse firmly on the sociological agenda, given that scholarly studies of animal abuse remain virtually nonexistent and the topic is completely ignored in criminology textbooks. Historically, non-human animals have not been absent from criminological […]
Gregory Shank
Editorial Overview: Issues in Critical Criminology Issue overview. Citation: Social Justice Vol. 22, No. 1 (1995): 1-4
Immigration: A Civil Rights Issue for the Americas in the 21st Century, Vol. 23: 3, 1996
Edited by Susanne Jonas and Suzie Dod Thomas Public policy on immigration will be central to determining the form and character of US society in the 21st century. The political Right has so far seized the initiative in defining the parameters of that discussion, in effect limiting national debate to choosing between degrees of restrictionism. […]
The World Today, Vol. 23: 1-2, 1996
Edited by Pablo González Casanova and John Saxe-Fernández This special 375-page collection includes contributions on the world situation on every continent in the final stage of the 20th century. Given the failure of social democracy, real socialism, and the nationalism of the poor countries, the goal was not only to describe the world today, but […]
Public Health in the 1990s: In the Shadow of Global Transformation and Militarism, Vol. 22: 4, 1995
Edited by Patrice Sutton and Robert Gould Public Health in the 1990s is an excellent compendium of some of the most important global public health issues that we currently face, including violence, occupational and environmental health, women’s health, AIDS, health care delivery, landmines, chemical and nuclear weapons, and nuclear waste cleanup. Among the contributions are […]
Racial and Political Justice, Vol. 22: 3, 1995
Gregory Shank (coord.) This issue speaks to attacks on political justice in the form of resurgent racism at home, as well as genocide and patterns of “ethnic cleansing” abroad. With the realignment of power in the United States over the last two decades, the Democrats effectively abandoned the historic demand for civil rights. This demand […]
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 […]
Issues in Critical Criminology, Vol. 22: 1, 1995
Gregory Shank (coord.) This issue addresses the use and abuse of animals in criminology, critical criminology and the reconstruction of utopias, class and criminality, organizational crime, domestic violence, and the history of American corrections. Purchase articles (click on the author link to read the abstract and buy the pdf): Gregory Shank, Editorial Overview: Issues in […]
Environmental Victims, Vol. 23: 4, 1996
Edited by Christopher Williams This issue examines environmentally mediated injury and seeks to change the perception of those who suffer from that of sick patients who are simply in need of treatment, to one of “environmental victims” who deserve justice. It reflects a wide range of interested parties and national perspectives, with academic contributors, frontline […]
Immigration: A Civil Rights Issue for the Americas in the 21st Century, Vol. 23: 3, 1996
Susanne Jonas and Suzie Dod Thomas Public policy on immigration will be central to determining the form and character of US society in the 21st century. The political Right has so far seized the initiative in defining the parameters of that discussion, in effect limiting national debate to choosing between degrees of restrictionism. Immigration: A […]
The World Today, Vol. 23: 1-2, 1996
Pablo González Casanova and John Saxe-Fernández Edited by Pablo González Casanova and John Saxe-Fernández, this special 375-page collection includes contributions on the world situation on every continent in the final stage of the 20th century. Given the failure of social democracy, real socialism, and the nationalism of the poor countries, the goal was not only […]