TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstracts [free pdf download] Anatomy of a Done Deal: The Fight over the Iran Nuclear Accord Gregory Shank Absolutely Sovereign Victims: Rethinking the Victim Movement Ronnie Lippens “Putting Cruelty First”: Liberal Penal Reform and the Rise of the Carceral State Jason Vick Sweetheart Settlements, the Financial Crisis, and Impunity: A Case Study of […]
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Vol. 42-2: Beyond Mass Incarceration
BEYOND MASS INCARCERATION: CRISIS AND CRITIQUE IN NORTH AMERICAN PENAL SYSTEMS edited by Alessandro De Giorgi After decades of vertical increases in imprisonment rates, the US carceral system is in a state of structural crisis. A growing public awareness of the spiraling social and economic costs of this hypertrophic carceral machine seems to provide a […]
Vol. 42-3/4: Mexican and Chicanx Social Movements
Mexican and Chicanx Social Movements edited by Maylei Blackwell and Edward J. McCaughan This special double issue brings together the work of scholars and activists from Mexico and the United States, representing a variety of disciplines and movements, to discuss current trends in the scholarship and practices of Mexican and Chicanx social movements. The editors […]
Vol. 43-1 Miscellaneous
This issue brings together articles on prisoner reentry, judicial override in capital cases, self-determination for African descendants in Brazil, reintegrating deported migrants in Jamaica, the global war on drugs, and the Chilean New Song movement. TABLE OF CONTENTS “Punishment’s Twin”: Theorizing Prisoner Reentry for a Politics of Abolition Renée M. Byrd The Problem of Explanation: […]
Vol. 43-2
FRONT MATTER (pdf download) Abstracts (pdf download) TABLE OF CONTENTS Articles The Spectacle, Neoliberalism, and the Socially Dead Dawn Rothe and Victoria E. Collins My Brother’s Keeper: Mass Death in the Carceral State Ernest Kikuta Chavez Settler Colonialism and the Policing of Idle No More Andrew Crosby and Jeffrey Monaghan Commentary Who Polices the Police? […]
Vol. 43-3
FRONT MATTER (pdf download) Abstracts (pdf download) TABLE OF CONTENTS Articles Global Capitalism and the Restructuring of Education: The Transnational Capitalist Class’ Quest to Suppress Critical Thinking William I. Robinson Finding a Home in the Stop-and-Frisk Regime Wendy Wright Indigenous Peoples and the Globalization of Restorative Justice Juan Marcellus Tauri Switzerland’s Apology for Compulsory Government-Welfare […]
Vol. 43-4
FRONT MATTER (pdf download) Abstracts (pdf download) TABLE OF CONTENTS Articles Critical Criminologies of the Present and Future: Left Realism, Left Idealism, and What’s Left In Between Eric Madfis & Jeffrey Cohen (Stop) Deporting Pegah: Sovereignty, (Public) Sex, and (Life)/Death Azar Masoumi Rewriting Torture: Manufacturing a Primer of Abuse in US Domestic Prisons Susan A. […]
Vol. 44-1: Ethnographic Explorations of Punishment and the Governance of Security
Ethnographic Explorations of Punishment and the Governance of Security edited by Robert Werth This special issue highlights the growth of ethnographic examinations of penal governance across multiple disciplines, emphasizing the possibilities and the potential blind spots of ethnography as a methodology for studying penality. By analyzing phenomena as varied as pre-trial incarceration, parole and reentry, female […]
Vol. 44-2/3: Neoliberal Confinements: Social Suffering in the Carceral State
Neoliberal Confinements: Social Suffering in the Carceral State edited by Alessandro De Giorgi & Benjamin Fleury-Steiner This special issue aims to provide a cartography of some of the forms of social suffering experienced by marginalized and oppressed populations in the US carceral state. The contributors extend their gaze beyond the prison and its ancillary institutions […]
Vol. 44-4
FRONT MATTER (pdf download) Abstracts (pdf download) TABLE OF CONTENTS Articles The Idea of Progress, Industrialization, and the Replacement of Indigenous Peoples: The Muskrat Falls Megadam Boondoggle Colin Samson Material Conditions of Detroit’s Great Rebellion Mark Jay & Virginia Leavell Myanmar: Promoting Reconciliation between the Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists of Rakhine State Katja Weber & […]
Vol. 45-1: Emancipatory Justice: Confronting the Carceral State
Emancipatory Justice: Confronting the Carceral State edited by Michael Hallett This special issue of Social Justice expands previous editions’ explorations of emancipatory justice and incarceration. The issue begins with the premise that addressing structural violence is the greatest single challenge to establishing mechanisms of emancipatory justice. Looking beyond the prison walls, contributors identify areas in which new […]
Vol. 45-2/3
TABLE OF CONTENTS Histories of Abolition, Critiques of Security Brendan McQuade Rebranding Mass Incarceration: The Lippman Commission and Carceral Devolution in New York City Zhandarka Kurti & Jarrod Shanahan Reproducing Disorder: The Effects of Broken Windows Policing on Homeless People with Mental Illness in San Francisco Tony Sparks You Have the Right to Remain Violent: […]
Vol. 45-4 – Penal Abolition: Challenging Boundaries
Penal Abolition: Challenging Boundaries edited by Michael J. Coyle & Judah Schept The present issue’s focus reflects abolition’s foundational questioning of the material boundaries of capitalist societies—borders, prisons, property—as well as the matériel of those boundaries—barbed wire, cages, fences, walls, and increasingly their electronic manifestations. Whereas some reform efforts aim to tweak the size and […]
Vol. 46-1 – Unsettling Debates: Women and Peace Making
Unsettling Debates: Women and Peace Making edited by Suzy Kim, Gwyn Kirk, and M. Brinton Lykes This issue presents a critical exploration of women’s past contributions and future potential in making peace. Adopting a transnational perspective, the contributors highlight the various ways in which women seeking a just peace have organized against militarized patriarchy and its forms […]
Vol. 46-2/3 – Policing the Protest Cycle of the 2010s
Please note: This issue has not been published yet. You may purchase a digital copy for immediate download or pre-order a printed copy below (shipping in September 2020). Policing the Protest Cycle of the 2010s edited by Manuel Maroto, Ignacio González-Sánchez, and José A. Brandariz This special issue analyzes the cycle of protests that has swept […]
Vol. 46-4 – Punishment and History
Punishment and History edited by Ashley T. Rubin This special issue appraises the role of history in the study of punishment, illuminating its utility and limitations for understanding penal change. Rather than seeking the origins of mass incarceration, as others have done, this issue examines how penal history might provide lessons for understanding punishment as a social […]