Edited by Tony Platt and Paul Takagi (2nd printing, 1982). 200 pp., paper, ISBN 0-935206-00-0. $14.95 The present crisis in prison conditions has been decades in the making. What are its real causes? What are the class forces at work in the penal system? This important anthology of 16 essays selected from Crime and Social Justice addresses […]
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Paul T. Takagi: Recollections and Writings
Paul T. Takagi and Gregory Shank (2012), 156 pp., paper, ISBN 978-0-9352060-1-2. $21.95 This collection of biographical essays also includes Paul T. Takagi’s previously unpublished writings. It reviews a 140-year period in which Japanese Americans forged a new trans-Pacific identity. Historians will find a fresh interpretation of the reasons behind the tragic episode of placing […]
Critical Resistance to the Prison-Industrial Complex
Edited by the Critical Resistance Publications Collective. 240 pp., paper. ISBN: 978-0-935206-03-6. $14.95 This special issue of Social Justice, edited by Critical Resistance, focuses on prison abolition as a goal and theme. The issue is broadly divided into system analyses and articles centering on organizing for change, that is, reports of struggles against the system and […]
The Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove
OUT OF STOCK Tony Platt et al. (2nd printing, 1977). 232 pp., paper, ISBN 0-935206-02-07. $19.95 “To round out the list of books that influenced my own development … I must mention the 1977 edition of an important work on the American policing, The Iron Fist and Velvet Glove: An Analysis of the U. S. Police. First […]