Review Essay on Prisons under Protest The central argument of Joe Sim’s book is that prison riots are not psychopathic orgies of destruction, but desperate attempts at communication. The reviewer urges greater attention to prisoner accounts of penal reality to help prisoners overcome their terrible isolation. book review, prison riots Citation: Social Justice Vol. 18, […]
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Trudie Coker
Dimensions of Democracy in Contemporary Venezuela The heated debate over whether Venezuela is democratic or authoritarian hinges on the various conceptualizations of democracy that are used. Arguments that Venezuela is authoritarian tend to assume that neoliberalism is an essential component of democracy. However, when neoliberalism is detached from this logic, the essence of democracy as […]
Ursula M. Baer
Switzerland’s Apology for Compulsory Government-Welfare Measures: A Social Justice Turn? This article offers some insights into the history of historical compulsory government-welfare measures and the issue of children and youth in state care. It introduces a barely known history (Switzerland’s compulsory government-welfare measures) and analyzes the content of the official apology Switzerland offered in 2013 […]
Vanesa Estrada Correa
Blueprint for the American Dream? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Presidential Remarks on Minority Homeownership This article examines presidential discourse on public policies affecting racial inequalities in homeownership from a critical race theory perspective. Using a critical discourse analysis framework to examine presidential remarks, press releases, and official reports, the author discusses how presidential discourse […]
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Memories of Betita Contributions from Mike Davis, Chude Pam Allen, Angela Davis, John Nichols, Barbara Dane, Sofía Martínez, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Mike Miller, Susanne Jonas, Alejandro Alvarez, Fredi Avalos, Marta López-Garza, Carlos Muñoz, Jr., Max Elbaum and Ellen Kaiser, and Olga Talamante. Elizabeth “Betita” Sutherland Martínez Citation: Social Justice Vol. 39, No. 2-3 (2012): 85-148
Velma L. Campbell and J. Ross Vincent
Chemical Weapons Destruction: A Window of Opportunity Integral to the construction of a less fragmented more inclusive view of ”the public” are efforts that increase citizen participation in scientific and technological decision making affecting public health. A consistent public health theme in the 1990s will be how to balance the often divergent perspectives of governments […]
Vicky Munro-Bjorklund
Popular Cultural Images of Criminals and Prisoners since Attica This article on the popular-cultural images of criminals shows how in the 20 years leading up to 1990 the entertainment and news media developed a symbiotic relation with demagogic politicians, helping to fashion a reactionary public attitude that is hostile to prisoner rights. prisoner rights, news […]
Victor W. Sidel and Robert C. Wesley, Jr.
Violence as a Public Health Problem: Lessons for Action Against Violence by Health Care Professionals from the Work of the International Physicians Movement for the Prevention of Nuclear War The public health effects posed by the persistence of a global commitment to weapons and violence in conducting international relations–militarism–are presented by Victor W. Sidel and […]
Victoria Collins & Dawn Rothe
Vincenzo Ruggiero
Utopian Action and Participatory Disputes Is abolitionism a utopian posture in the face of social events, problems, and their solution? After specifying the type of utopianism implicitly embraced by penal abolitionism, this article traces some key features that constitute the religious, philosophical, and political underpinning of this school of thought. It then discusses how proponents […]
Vincenzo Ruggiero
COMMENTARY The Economic Field and the End of Mass Incarceration In a recent special issue of Social Justice (Vol. 42-2), a series of critical contributions examine recent developments in North American penal systems, offering hypotheses around the apparent end of mass incarceration. This commentary adopts a materialistic perspective, taking as a starting point the work […]
Virginia S. Williams and Jennifer Leigh Disney
Militarism and Its Discontents: Neoliberalism, Repression, and Resistance in Twenty-First Century US-Latin American Relations Although much recent scholarship on Latin America focuses on the widespread political shift to the Left, this article examines military and political movements to subvert democracy in the region. This article explores the relationship between neoliberalism and militarism in Latin America […]
Vol. 18-3 Attica: 1971-1991 — A Commemorative Issue
This issue provides a retrospective on the Attica rebellion, an assessment of prisoner struggles in the United States, Canada, England and Wales, and Japan since 1971, and thoughts on a new penology for the 1990s. It is of enduring historical value. TABLE OF CONTENTS Attica: The “Bitter Lessons” Forgotten? Robert P. Weiss, Editor [free pdf […]
Vol. 39:4
{click on the author’s name to read the abstract and purchase single articles} TABLE OF CONTENTS Victoria E. Collins and Dawn L. Rothe, United States Support for Global Social Justice? Foreign Intervention and Realpolitik in Egypt’s Arab Spring Micol Seigel, “Convict Race”: Racialization in the Era of Hyperincarceration Steve Martinot, On the Epidemic of Police Killings Harald Bauder, The Possibilities of […]
Vol. 41-3
This issue includes a special section on PENAL ABOLITION AND PRISON REFORM; plus articles on US militarism in Latin America, hackers and privacy, the Víctor Jara case, and grassroots peacemaking in El Salvador. TABLE OF CONTENTS Militarism and Its Discontents: Neoliberalism, Repression, and Resistance in Twenty-First-Century US–Latin American Relations Ginger Williams & Jennifer Leigh Disney “It […]
Vol. 41-4: Youth under Control: Punishment and Reform in the Neoliberal State
This special issue critically analyzes the social and penal policies aimed at young people in the United States, focusing in particular on the punitive role played by schools, juvenile courts, and community-based programs.