The Future of Global Polarization This article argues that history since antiquity has been characterized by social inequality. Yet it is only in the modern era that polarization has become the immanent by-product of the integration of the entire planet into the capitalist system. Modern capitalist polarization has appeared in successive forms during the evolution […]
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Sandra Meucci
What Is a Children’s Policy, Anyway? Sandra Meucci shows how children’s needs for protection is a problematic basis for social policy. Not only does “child protection” derive from an implicitly patronizing power relationship with children, but “protective” policy has also historically been driven by adult fears over the “dangerous classes” of immigrant children, illiteracy, and […]
Sandra Meucci and Jim Redmon
Safe Spaces: California Children Enter a Policy Debate Sandra Meucci and Jim Redmon discuss how the teenagers involved in their pilot projects are defining their need for “safe spaces” in ways that usefully inform the current policy debate about community safety. Rather than the focus on prohibition and incarceration implicit in current policies, these adolescents […]
Sandra Meucci and Michael Schwab
Children and the Environment: Young People’s Participation in Social Change Issue Introduction children, children’s rights, environmentalism, space, geographical, youth Citation: Social Justice Vol. 24, No. 3 (1997): 1-10
Sanford Lewis and Diane Henkels
Good Neighbor Agreements: A Tool for Environmental and Social Justice The “Good Neighbor Agreements” pioneered and documented in this issue by Sanford Lewis with Diane Henkels are one of the most interesting approaches to environmental justice. Working with, as opposed to against, potential polluters at a local level must surely be better than constant conflict […]
Sangre Latina
Mantel on the Table The script “Mantel on the Table,” written and performed by the young people in one of the pilot projects, the Sangre Latina Youth Theater Group, provides another window into children’s subjective expression of environmental concerns. In this sophisticated satire, a television talk show becomes the backdrop for these Latino teenagers to […]
Sara Diamond
Right-Wing Politics and the Anti-Immigration Cause Sara Diamond outlines the complexities of the Right’s positions, including the fault lines within the Right vis-a- vis immigration policy. She points out the contradictions and strange bedfellows generated by the immigration issue in relation to the Right’s broader goals. During the Proposition 187 campaign in California, for example, […]
Sarah Whetstone & Teresa Gowan
Carceral Rehab as Fuzzy Penality: Hybrid Technologies of Control in the New Temperance Crusade The steep escalation of mandatory drug rehabilitation since 1989 has incorporated “strong-arm” rehab as a central node of carceral control. This article draws on ethnographies of three Midwestern male residential rehab facilities that reflect three dominant treatment paradigms, which result in […]
Saskia Sassen
Beyond Sovereignty: Immigration Policy Making Today Saskia Sassen argues that the demands of globalization of capital have created changes in the state, relativizing its autonomy and regulatory capacities. Drawing on examples from around the globe (Western Europe and Japan as well as the U. S.), she lays bare the dynamics shaping immigration and refugee processes […]
Satinath Sarangi
The Movement in Bhopal and Its Lessons The Union Carbide poisoning at Bhopal has already received attention in {Social Justice}, from a theoretical standpoint in relation to corporate crime (Pearce and Tombs, 1989). By contrast, the Bhopal activist Satinath Sarangi provides a current update of circumstances in Bhopal and an insightful assessment of the strengths […]
Securing the Imperium: Criminal Justice Privatization and Neoliberal Globalization (Vol. 34, Nos. 3-4, 2007)
Bob Weiss, ed. This issue of Social Justice discusses the current resurgence, global expansion, and market concentration of the private security industry. Privatization of police, prisons, and the military is addressed in terms of the United States, China, Latin America, the UK, Australia, and South Africa. The issue covers capturing new capitalist frontiers; global market […]
Sexuality, Criminalization, and Social Control Action Research, Vol. 37:1, 2010
Clare Sears, Andreanna Clay, Jessica Fields, and Alexis Martinez, eds. This issue of Social Justice examines aspects of the sexual politics of criminalization in the context of a three-decade long strategy for increasingly managing social problems through penal measures. To date, scholars have critically considered race in studies of criminalization, examining the severe and disproportionate […]
Sexuality, Criminalization, and Social Control Action Research, Vol. 37:1, 2010
Clare Sears, Andreanna Clay, Jessica Fields, and Alexis Martinez This issue of Social Justice examines aspects of the sexual politics of criminalization in the context of a three-decade long strategy for increasingly managing social problems through penal measures. To date, scholars have critically considered race in studies of criminalization, examining the severe and disproportionate effects […]
Shadows of State Terrorism: Impunity in Latin America, Vol. 26: 4, 1999
J. Patrice McSherry and Raúl Molina Mejía, eds. On the cusp of the 21st century, the long shadows of state terrorism still haunt Latin America. For millions of people in the region, the memory of predator states that turned on their own citizens persists; for some, as in Colombia today, political violence and state terrorism […]
Sharon Stephens
Reflections on Environmental Justice: Children as Victims and Actors This article begins with a brief discussion of the history of the environmental justice movement and of the reasons why race, ethnicity, class, and occupation (and, to lesser and problematic extents, geopolitical location and gender) are theorized in the literature, while age is ignored as a […]
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 […]