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 […]
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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 […]
Review Symposium: 23/7, by Keramet Reiter
Review Symposium: 23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement, by Keramet Reiter Anxiety and the Racialized Logic of Mass Incarceration in California Francisco Diaz Casique A Released Prisoner’s Perspective on 23/7 Steven Czifra Losing Direction Mariposa McCall Four Important Lessons from 23/7 Franklin E. Zimring Response: Retaking the Archive of Knowledge about […]
Steven Loyal & Stephen Quilley
Categories of State Control: Asylum Seekers and the Direct Provision and Dispersal System in Ireland The introduction of the system of direct provision and dispersal (DPDS) to house asylum seekers in Ireland was the result of a number of processes, performing several functions, inclduing the state’s twin desires to deter the further arrival of asylum […]
Susan A. Phillips
Rewriting Torture: Manufacturing a Primer of Abuse in US Domestic Prisons A college-level critical pedagogy project confirms that human rights reporting can play a role in prison abolition as opposed to reform. By writing an altered version of the ICRC torture papers, students compared US prison torture in domestic and military sites, confirmed the application […]
Azar Masoumi
(Stop) Deporting Pegah: Sovereignty, (Public) Sex, and (Life)/Death This article reads the highly publicized lesbian refugee case of Pegah Emambakhsh in the UK to argue that the practice of sovereignty, particularly in relation to sexual minority refugees, is a deeply sexual practice. I draw on queer theory and theories of biopolitics and necropolitics to argue […]
Eric Madfis & Jeffrey Cohen
Critical Criminologies of the Present and Future: Left Realism, Left Idealism, and What’s Left In Between This article argues for the benefits of advancing an innovative critical criminological approach that concerns itself explicitly and simultaneously with both the criminology of the present and the criminology of the future. We put forth the idea that left […]
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. 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 […]
Review Symposium: Captive Nation, by Dan Berger
Review Symposium: Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era, by Dan Berger Material and Metaphor: Captive Nation and the Contours of Prison Radicalism Sarah Haley Prison Movement History for the Era of #BlackLivesMatter Toussaint Losier Babylon War: Black Nationalism, Black Imprisonment, and White Supremacy Waldo Martin Prison Organizing as Tradition and Imperative: A Response to […]
Ragnhild Utheim
The Case for Higher Education in Prison: Working Notes on Pedagogy, Purpose, and Preserving Democracy College programs inside prison comprise important sites of personal, interpersonal, and sociopolitical transformation that reach beyond the overt confines and consequences of imprisonment. Correctional education can serve as an important crossroads for civic engagement and cultural exchange in our quest […]
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 […]
Juan Marcellus Tauri
Indigenous Peoples and the Globalization of Restorative Justice Much of the criminological research and literature to date on the globalization of crime control has focused on macro-level theorizing about whether such globalization exists, and if so, its extent, scale, and impact. Little attention has been paid to the micro-level impact of all this activity, and […]
Wendy Wright
Finding a Home in the Stop-and-Frisk Regime NYPD’s stop-and-frisk program has been hailed as both a model of policing and a prime example of the evils associated with racial profiling. While its reform continues in New York City, police departments across the country are replicating its procedures, which targets of the practice describe as “humiliating,” […]
William I. Robinson
Global Capitalism and the Restructuring of Education: The Transnational Capitalist Class’ Quest to Suppress Critical Thinking As globalization has advanced there has been a dual process in the subordination of global labor. One mass of humanity has been dispossessed, marginalized, and locked out of productive participation in the global economy, while another has been incorporated […]
Hanink_Review of Murakawa
Review of Naomi Murakawa, The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America Peter A. Hanink