The Case for Higher Education in Prison: Working Notes on Pedagogy, Purpose, and Preserving Democracy College programs inside prison comprise important sites of personal, interpersonal, and sociopolitical transformation that reach beyond the overt confines and consequences of imprisonment. Correctional education can serve as an important crossroads for civic engagement and cultural exchange in our quest […]
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Ralph Miliband
The New World Order and the Left Given the disintegration of the Soviet Union, an altered world order came into beign, with some significant new features. The “market economy,” capitalism, took command of the field, on a worldwide scale and there is now no effective counterweight to U.S. and Western predominance in international relations. Yet […]
Randolph R. Myers and Tim Goddard
Pyrrhic Victory? Social Justice Organizations as Service Providers in Neoliberal Times Beginning in the late 1990s, the United States witnessed a proliferation of grassroots organizations focused on dismantling, and providing alternatives to, the contemporary justice system-challenging laws, their enforcement, and mobilizing for youth justice and criminal justice systems that are both effective and fair to […]
Raymond J. Michalowski and Ronald Kramer
Editors’ Introduction Issue overvierw. Clinton administration, justice Citation: Social Justice Vol. 22, No. 2 (1995): 1-6
Rebecca Benjamin
Si Hablas Español Eres Mojado: Spanish as an Identity Marker in the Lives of Mexicano Children In her article, Benjamin argues that subordinating Spanish in linguistic minority children adversely affects their identity formation. She believes that students will never be on an equal footing with English-speaking students because of the racism inherent in our national […]
Reconfiguring Power: Challenges for the 21st Century, Vol. 24: 2, 1997
Edited by Gilberto Arriaza, Jean Ishibashi, and Pedro Noguera This special issue addresses the reconfiguration of power by transnational corporate, worker, and community interests. The language, identity, civil rights, and equity concerns of immigrants, youth, women, and people of color are examined in light of their respective movements, and the possibilities for alliances and the […]
Regina L. Martinez
Beyond Mexico’s Woman: Negotiating Gender and Race in Dominant Narratives of Nation In this article, Martinez looks at how gender, race, and language can be counterhegemonic through narratives that break national and dichotomous constructions, i.e., Mexican or “American” (US). Benjamin focuses primarily on students’ narratives. gender, race, language Citation: Social Justice Vol. 24, No. 2 […]
Renee Byrd
“Punishment’s Twin”: Theorizing Prisoner Reentry for a Politics of Abolition Each year, approximately 700,000 people are released from prison. Prisoner reentry has emerged as an object of knowledge and intervention in profound new ways over the last decade. The immediate survival needs of people released from prison are vital issues for building the prison abolitionist […]
Resisting Militarism and Globalized Punishment, Vol. 31: 1-2, 2004
Tony Platt and Gregory Shank, eds. This issue of Social Justice examines the widening net of incarceration, immigration policing, and drug and crime enforcement as well as the role of an increasingly authoritarian national security state in a globalized 21st-century economy. The phenomenon is transnational in scope, though the contributions here focus mainly on developments […]
Resisting State Criminality, Vol. 36: 3, 2009
Dawn L. Rothe, ed. This issue of Social Justice is dedicated to resisting crimes of the state. It explores an area of scholarship that has received little attention to date: the role that acts of resistance could or do play in efforts to control or constrain the criminality of states. Authors examine some of the […]
Review Symposium: 23/7, by Keramet Reiter
Review Symposium: 23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement, by Keramet Reiter Anxiety and the Racialized Logic of Mass Incarceration in California Francisco Diaz Casique A Released Prisoner’s Perspective on 23/7 Steven Czifra Losing Direction Mariposa McCall Four Important Lessons from 23/7 Franklin E. Zimring Response: Retaking the Archive of Knowledge about […]
Review Symposium: Captive Nation, by Dan Berger
Review Symposium: Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era, by Dan Berger Material and Metaphor: Captive Nation and the Contours of Prison Radicalism Sarah Haley Prison Movement History for the Era of #BlackLivesMatter Toussaint Losier Babylon War: Black Nationalism, Black Imprisonment, and White Supremacy Waldo Martin Prison Organizing as Tradition and Imperative: A Response to […]
Review Symposium: Executing Freedom, by Daniel LaChance
REVIEW SYMPOSIUM Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States, by Daniel LaChance Contributors: Lisa Miller, Jonathan Simon, Paul Kaplan, Mona Lynch, Patricia Ewick & Daniel LaChance FORMAT: PDF (download link available after purchase)
Review Symposium: Progressive Punishment, by Judah Schept
REVIEW SYMPOSIUM Progressive Punishment: Job Loss, Jail Growth, and the Neoliberal Logic of Carceral Expansion, by Judah Schept Contributors: Michelle Brown, Alessandro De Giorgi, Keramet Reiter & Judah Schept FORMAT: PDF (download link available after purchase) • • •
Rita Maran
After the Beijing Women’s Conference: What Will Be Done? In two of the largest overlapping global gatherings ever held, 47,000 individuals attended the United Nations’ Fourth World Conference on Women (FWCW) and its parallel event, the Non-Governmental Organizations’ Forum on Women (NGO Forum) in China in September 1995. The FWCW, a government-to-government formal conference, was […]
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 […]