Australian Laborism, Social Democracy, and Social Justice into the 1990s From the outside, the experience of the Australian labor movement has always seemed different. Since its inception, Australian labor has been happy to promote the image of its own exceptionalism. From its earlier strengths, through its tepid, near-British postwar period, and the real excitement — […]
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Peter Linebaugh
Karl Marx, the Theft of Wood, and Working-Class Composition: A Contribution to the Current Debate Originally published in 1976, this essay calls for a reconsideration of Marxist ideas about crime–“capital’s most ancient tool in the creation and control of the working class”–and returns to Marx’s ideas about communal and private property. Marxist theories of crime […]
Peter Penz
Environmental Victims and State Sovereignty: A Normative Analysis Peter Penz develops perspectives on environmental victimology through a meticulous discussion in relation to state sovereignty and national borders. In an earlier issue of {Social Justice}, Merideth and Brown (1995) provided an outline of the practical aspects of this debate, in relation to the Mexican maquiladoras. “If […]
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 […]
Piri Thomas
From: Seven Long Times Citation: Social Justice Vol. 18, No. 3 (1991): 255-263
Policing Protest and Youth, Vol. 36: 1, 2009
Gregory Shank, ed. This issue of Social Justice examines the historical roots of recent forms of domestic spying and the fear campaigns that justify such programs–as well as the wars on crime, drugs, and terror. Authors look at how globalization affects policing practices in the United States, including the policing of protest and of inner-city […]
Policing the Crisis–Policing in Crisis, Vol. 38:1-2, 2011
Kendra Briken and Volker Eick, eds. This issue of Social Justice discusses recent policing and security strategies, civil rights, and crime policy within the framework of the current financial and economic crisis. Contributors focus on various aspects of urban policing in crisis, such as recent developments in the “governance” of urban spaces. Some articles analyze […]
Policing, Detention, Deportation, and Resistance, Vol. 36: 2, 2009
Jodie Michelle Lawston and Martha Escobar, eds. This issue of Social Justice demonstrates that imprisonment, including immigrant detention, is essential to the US drive to preserve geopolitical dominance. It examines activist efforts to resist this trend and urges the building of bridges between prison abolition and immigrant justice work. The issue brings together a multiplicity […]
Privatization and Resistance: Contesting Neoliberal Globalization, Vol. 33: 3, 2006
Adalberto Aguirre, Jr., Volker Eick, and Ellen Reese, eds. This issue of Social Justice explores the danger of neoliberal globalization regarding social issues such as the privatization of housing, economic welfare, security, and the delivery of goods and services. Contributions on economic welfare and municipal services discuss how neoliberalism in the global North and South […]
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 […]
Punishment and Penal Discipline: Essays on the Prison and the Prisoners’ Movement
Edited by Tony Platt and Paul Takagi (2nd printing, 1982). 200 pp., paper, ISBN 0-935206-00-0. $14.95 The present crisis in prison conditions has been decades in the making. What are its real causes? What are the class forces at work in the penal system? This important anthology of 16 essays selected from Crime and Social Justice addresses […]
Race, Class, and State Crime, Vol. 27: 1, 2000
Gregory Shank (coord.) Two themes stand out in this issue. The first concerns the intersection of race, class, and crime. Discussion centers on excessive police violence, criminalization based on racial and ethnic markers, the viability of electoral work versus strategies of civil disobedience, and the varieties of multiculturalism. The second theme revolves around patterns of […]
Race, Racism, and Empire: Reflections on Canada, Vol. 32: 4, 2005
Enakshi Dua, Narda Razack, and Jody Nyasha, eds. This special issue of Social Justice, guest edited by Enakshi Dua, Narda Razack, and Jody Nyasha, focuses attention on the unique manner in which race, racism, and empire are articulated in the Canadian context. Currents in Canadian critical race scholarship include theorizing the relationship between race, racism, […]
Race, Security, and Social Movements, Vol. 30: 1, 2003
Gregory Shank (coord.) This issue took shape during the buildup to the Bush administration’s preemptive war against Iraq and the worldwide mobilization against it. Its contents appropriately reflect a longer view of US militarism and populist nationalism, the criminalization and repression of domestic dissent, and the movements that have challenged the power arrangements that sustain […]
Rachel Herzing
“Tweaking Armageddon”: The Potential and Limits of Conditions of Confinement Campaigns This commentary compares the discipline regimes in Eastern State Penitentiary, which opened its doors in 1829, with that faced by prisoners in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) of Pelican Bay State Prison in California, where inmates have initiated a hunger strike. commentary, Pelican Bay […]
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 […]