Complicity and Redemption: Beyond the Insider/Outsider Research Dichotomy The authors look at the creation of possibilities for collaborative research by scholars and criminalized subjects. A collaboration between an academic/practitioner (Shoshana) and a formerly incarcerated woman (Tiina), the article aims to disrupt conventional ways of conducting and writing about research. The focus is on the process […]
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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 […]
Abby Deshman and Kelly Hannah-Moffat
Advocacy and Academia: Considering Strategies of Cooperative Engagement This article examines the various dimensions of the “border regions” of the penal field, in which, despite the militarized borders erected by the penal state to segregate criminalized populations, encounters take place, connections are established, and alliances are created. This includes the production of policy-relevant criminological knowledge […]
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 […]
Noah De Lissovoy
Injury and Accumulation: Making Sense of the Punishing State This article suggests that the pervasive racialization of contemporary state violence calls for an analysis of the penal state that identifies racism and “coloniality” (i.e., the material and symbolic domination of communities of color) as essential components of late capitalism. This approach allows De Lissovoy to […]
Marie Gottschalk
Razing the Carceral State This article examines the deeply racialized and classed architecture of the American carceral edifice to illustrate how the growing opposition to mass incarceration in the United States has tended to gravitate toward two equally flawed positions. The first focuses on racial discrimination as the main line of attack against the carceral […]
Alessandro De Giorgi
Five Theses on Mass Incarceration This essay provides a critical overview of the discursive field that has consolidated in recent years around the prison crisis in the United States. Written in the form of “five theses” on mass incarceration, the essay charts some emerging vectors of the current penal reform discourse, outlining their promises and […]
Colin Gunckel
Review of McCaughan, Art and Social Movements The author describes how Edward J. McCaughan’s Art and Social Movements adds to an exciting body of recent scholarship and exhibitions that reconsiders the role of cultural production, and visual culture in particular, within late twentieth century social movements. This new books enters into a dialogue with earlier […]
Emilia Carlevaro and Margaret Randall
Uruguay: A Woman Remembers This conversation between Emilia Carlevaro, a longtime political activist and Uruguayan member of the Latin American Organization of the Families of the Disappeared, and Margaret Randall, a feminist poet, writer, photographer, and social activist is a valuable history with lessons for new generations of activists. It explores the shared experience ofArgentina, […]
Alejandro Álvarez Bejar
Tribute to Alonso Aguilar Monteverde: Ten Key Policies for Understanding the Neoliberal Transformation of Mexican Capitalism This tribute to teacher and social activist, Alonso Aguilar Monteverde, outlines crucial aspects of the neoliberal transformation of the Mexican socioeconomic system. Among the changes are aspects of the operation of capitalism in Mexico the political synthesis between economic […]
Jaime Osorio
Super-Exploitation, and Dependency: Notes on The Dialectics of Dependency With the publication of Dialéctica de ladependencia (The Dialectics of Dependency) by Ruy Mauro Marini, Latin American social theory was able to culminate a great effort in the interest of formulating a theory of dependent capitalism and the laws by which it is reproduced. At the […]
Sheryl J. Croft, Mari Ann Roberts, and Vera L. Stenhouse
The Perfect Storm of High-Stakes Education Reform: High-Stakes Testing and Teacher Evaluation This article examines seemingly disconnected education reform policies and posits that their unprecedented alignment is eroding the bedrock of public education. Using Georgia as an example, the authors demonstrate how neoliberal efforts to reform education occur through three systematic and interconnected fronts: political […]
William Calathes and Matthew G. Yeager
Sweetheart Settlements, the Financial Crisis, and Impunity: A Case Study of SEC v. Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. This article highlights the inherentlimitationsand current failures of securities laws, with a particular focus on the abdication of power by state agents to protect the public interest from financial frauds. Through a case study of SEC v. Citigroup […]
Jason Vick
“Putting Cruelty First”: Liberal Penal Reform and the Rise of the Carceral State Why are so many people in prison today? How do we make sense, more generally, of the fact that all the world’s liberal democracies rely on incarceration as an essential tool of punishment? Specifically, why is it that the discourses and practices […]
Ronnie Lippens
Absolutely Sovereign Victims: Rethinking the Victim Movement This article attempts to rethink the emergence and subsequent development of what could be called the victim movement, or victim culture, which has crystallized in the latter half of the twentieth century. The author argues that a great variety of elements have, in the wake of World War […]
Gregory Shank
Anatomy of a Done Deal: The Fight over the Iran Nuclear Accord This article exploresthe political forces mostinvolvedin the contest over the Obama administration’s landmark signing, on July 14, 2015, of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, along with the permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany. The accord codifies in international law […]