Building a Movement and Constructing Community: Photography, the United Farm Workers and El Malcriado The United Farm Workers’ widely circulated publication El Malcriado was highly influential in shaping Chicano movement print culture and the way it visualized emerging conceptions of identity, community, and politics. This essay examines use of photography within El Malcriado, the various […]
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Colin Samson
The Idea of Progress, Industrialization, and the Replacement of Indigenous Peoples: The Muskrat Falls Megadam Boondoggle This essay examines the continuing currency of the idea of progress to justify the state and corporate appropriation of Indigenous peoples’ lands and the diminution of their rights. Focusing upon the Innu peoples of the Labrador-Quebec peninsula and the […]
Community Accountability: Emerging Movements to Transform Violence, Vol. 37:4, 2010
Alisa Bierria, Mimi Kim, and Clasissa Rojas, eds. The editors of this issue offer unique advantages due to their experience with grassroots organizations, antiviolence activism within communities of color, and participants in debates about prisons and police responses to violence. Their feminist praxis as scholar/activists is reflected in the scope and breadth of this volume. […]
Criminal Justice & Globalization at the New Millennium, Vol. 27: 2, 2000
Robert P. Weiss, ed. Edited by Robert P. Weiss, this 300-page special millennium issue of Social Justice highlights the negative impact of neoliberal globalization on criminal justice, including escalating personal and business crime, growing corruption, heightened antiforeign sentiment and scapegoating that comes with labor migration, greater worker insecurity, and the expansion of a marginalized, contingent […]
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 […]
Critical Resistance to the Prison-Industrial Complex, Vol. 27: 3, 2000
ISSUE OUT OF PRINT — DIGITAL COPY AVAILABLE Rose Braz et al., eds. 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 […]
Crossing Lines: Revisioning U.S. Race Relations, Vol. 25: 3, 1998
Elaine H. Kim, Susan Roberta Katz, and Anthony M. Platt, eds. This issue appears as the momentous changes of the last 20 years–the decline of the civil rights coalition, the demise of mass movements for social justice, the rise of New Right and neoliberal politics, the dramatically changing demographics of the country, and divisions among […]
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Editorial: Berkeley’s School of Criminology, 1950–1976 An editorial written by the journal’s board in 1976, “Berkeley’s School of Criminology, 1950-1976,” describes the failed efforts to build “a progressive alternative to what is perhaps the most reactionary field in the social sciences.” Berkeley’s School of Criminology, political movements Citation: Social Justice Vol. 40, Nos. 1-2 (2013): […]
Dana Saunders
Invisible Youth Reappear! A Review of Two Youth-Produced Videos Another medium used by young people to express themselves is video. In “Invisible Youth Reappear!” Dana Saunders reviews two youth-produced videos, one about life in a refugee camp in Bosnia, the other about racism. Material of this kind is increasingly finding its way to mass audiences, […]
Daniel Patten
The Mass Incarceration of Nations and the Global War on Drugs: Making Comparisons between the United States Domestic and Foreign Drug Policies This article offers an overview of the current domestic war on drugs in the United States and the subsequent mass incarceration of individuals. The domestic and foreign drug policy fronts are compared by […]
Daniel Singer
Europe’s Crises The Nation European correspondent analyzes three closely connected crises: the unexpected difficulties confronted by the capitalist invasion of eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the long-term structural crisis due to mass unemployment in Western Europe due to technological advances, and the bankruptcy of social democracy and the inability […]
Dario Melossi
1977, Bologna to San Francisco Melossi, a leading figure in radical criminology in Europe, reflects on his time in California in the late 1970s, his work with the editorial collective of Social Justice (then known as Crime and Social Justice), and the Marxist tradition in penal history, to which he has made significant contributions. history […]
Dario Melossi
Georg Rusche and Otto Kirchheimer: Punishment and Social Structure Melossi’s review essay of Rusche and Kirchheimer’s Punishment and Social Structure (1978) indicates that Kirchheimer, rather than pursuing the Rusche thesis in the remaining chapters of the book, “widened” and possibly undermined Rusche’s thesis in his analysis of developments in penal policy under fascist rule. Thus, […]
Dave Broad
Globalization and the Casual Labor Problem: History and Prospects Dave Broad analyzes the structural transformation of the world labor market, including the growing prominence of part-time or temporary work, cost cutting through massive layoffs, subcontracting in the informal economy, and outsourcing from the developed centers to the Third World. Broad argues that full-time work does […]
David Bacon
For an Immigration Policy Based on Human Rights David Bacon builds on his grass-roots immigrant advocacy experience to counter the attack on the rights of undocumented immigrants. The author addresses the thorny issue of financial costs versus contributions made by undocumented immigrants to the system, exposing who pays and who benefits, and the ways in […]
David Gilbert
“These Criminals Have No Respect for Human Life” Gilbert provides a first-hand account of a May 1990 disciplined and widely supported protest action at Attica over the killing of a black prisoner. The article also assesses changes in the values and attitudes of guards and prisoners at Attica since 1971. The author argues that “prisoners […]