Crime and Individuality Robert Ackermann’s lively review of Harold Pepinsky’s The Geometry of Violence and Democracy notes that in defining crime as a politically arbitrary subset of violence, Pepinsky has written a powerful and moving book that explains the apparent irrelevance of much of what is normally considered criminology and offers the prospect of a […]
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Robert Gould
Review of Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach, by Thomas Bodenheimer and Kevin Grumbach Book review of Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach book reviews; medical care — cost United States; medical care United States; medical policy United States; public health United States, Bodenheimer, Thomas, Grumbach, Kevin, Lange Medical Books/McGraw-Hill Citation: Social Justice Vol. 22, […]
Robert P. Weiss
Review of Poveda, Rethinking White-Collar Crime A review by Robert P. Weiss of Tony Poveda’s book, Rethinking White-Collar Crime, is a critical survey of the nature, etiology, and control of white- collar crime in the United States. Weiss argues that Poveda’s project to “rethink” white-collar crime couldn’t be more timely. As the pendulum of class […]
Robert P. Weiss
“The Order of Attica” After the “disturbance,” the Attica convicts were stripped naked in the yard and made to crawl, with faces to the ground, back to their cells and thus relegated back “in place” as objects in the “order of things.” The “order” of Attica was an example of what can happen when social […]
Robert P. Weiss, Editor
Attica: The “Bitter Lessons” Forgotten? Issue Overview Attica prison Citation: Social Justice Vol. 18, No. 3 (1991): 1-12
Robert Weiss
Guest Editor’s Interview In this interview, Frank (Big Black) Smith and Akil Al-Jundi were asked to account for the degeneration of prisoner values and attitudes. Big Black and Akil were asked about their lives since 1971, about prisons today, and about their hopes and dreams for social justice. As Minister of Information for the Attica […]
Robin C. Moore
The Need for Nature: A Childhood Right The eclipse of children’s access to the out of doors and its implications for their development are the subject of Robin Moore’s “Childhood Without Nature: The Right to Experience.” Moore enumerates factors restricting access to the outdoors as he discusses social and environmental aspects of the changing ecology […]
Roger Hart and Michael Schwab
Children’s Rights and the Building of Democracy: A Dialogue on the International Movement for Children’s Participation Children are engaged in community environmental action and policy work around the world. Schwab and Roger Hart provide a heartening and incisive account of this trend, from the movement of street children in Brazil, which resulted in a plethora […]
Roger Hart, Collette Daiute, Selim Iltus, David Kritt, Michaela Rome, and Kim Sabo
Developmental Theory and Children’s Participation in Community Organizations This article discusses the changing ecology of children from different cultures as their identity and their understanding of the social world take shape. Identity is essentially a social concept, one that feminist psychological theorists link to political struggle, and children need to be involved in community in […]
Ronald Kramer and Raymond Michalowski
The Iron Fist and the Velvet Tongue: Crime Control Policies in the Clinton Administration Kramer and Michalowski examine Bill Clinton’s actions on the crime-control issue from the campaign of 1992 to the passage of the crime bill in 1994. What they find is that although President Clinton speaks, quite eloquently at times, about preventing crime […]
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 […]
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 […]
Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo
Social Justice and Feminist Activism: Writing as an Instrument of Collective Reflection in Prison Spaces The author describes her experience working as an academic and activist in penitentiary spaces in Mexico, with indigenous and mestiza women who are victims of a penal state that criminalizes poverty and social protest. With the purpose of cultivating ethnographic […]
Rosemarie Gillespie
Ecocide, Industrial Chemical Contamination, and the Corporate Profit Imperative: The Case of Bougainville The case of RTZ in Bougainville should rank with the Union Carbide (Bhopal) poisoning in importance. Yet Bougainville is an isolated island in the South Pacific, far from the gaze of the media, and events are an embarrassment to responsible states and […]
Ruth Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada
Grassroots Peacemaking: The Paradox of Reconciliation in El Salvador This article challenges the premises of “reconciliation” for state-led processes that reunites post-conflict societies. Based on ethnographic research in El Salvador, it is argued that such efforts entail condemning human rights violations and celebrating the transition to peace, yet overlook socio-economic disparities. The result is a […]
Ruth Needleman
Brazil: Recognizing the Right to Self-Determination for African-Descendants Brazil and the United States had the largest slave populations in the hemisphere, and, as a result, comparable institutionalized racism and inequalities. At least until the recent “congressional coup” and move to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, Brazil had taken major steps to face its heritage of genocide. […]