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Steve Martinot
Due Process and the Reconstruction of Democracy This article attempts to rescue the concept of due process from the limited field of legal procedure to look instead at its political potential as well as the effects of its denial. I argue that due process as a principle is at the core of any concept of […]
Gene Grabiner
Who Polices the Police? This article examines discriminatory, aggressive, and violent policing within the framework of structural and cultural violence and offers some observations about the class character of policing in America. It also provides recommendations for improved police practice, including community policing, deescalation training, more stringent public regulation of policing, and the demilitarization of […]
Andrew Crosby and Jeffrey Monaghan
Settler Colonialism and the Policing of Idle No More Idle No More is a grassroots movement that presents a powerful politics of resistance to settler colonialism. In response, security agencies in Canada have categorized the movement as both a criminal and a national security threat. This article is focused on the policing and surveillance of […]
Ernest Kikuta Chavez
My Brother’s Keeper: Mass Death in the Carceral State As the number of prisoners in the United States who die from terminal illness, old age, and deteriorating health conditions reaches unparalleled proportions, scholars who study punishment ought to extend their focus to the ways in which mass incarceration is producing what is referred to in […]
Dawn Rothe and Victoria E. Collins
The Spectacle, Neoliberalism, and the Socially Dead Despite the architectural forms of socio-moral spatial exclusion that have become the dominant theme of cities as they strive to channel capital, homelessness persists in any city street in the United States and abroad. Political discourse across the United States promises to put an end to the barbaric […]
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? […]
Attica: 1971–1991 — A Commemorative Issue (Vol. 18-3)
NOTE: OUT OF PRINT. DIGITAL EDITION ONLY. On the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the Attica rebellion, we are offering free access to a seminal interview with Michel Foucault following his visit to the prison (follow link in the table of contents below). Our classic 1991 commemorative issue, now available in digital format, provides a retrospective on the Attica rebellion, an assessment […]
Jerome Washington
A Bright Spot in the Yard poem poetry Citation: Social Justice Vol. 18, No. 3 (1991): 266-267
Donald Zaremba
Escape poem poetry Citation: Social Justice Vol. 18, No. 3 (1991): 265-265
Joanne Clark
Snapshots of Monroe Reformatory poem poetry Citation: Social Justice Vol. 18, No. 3 (1991): 264-264
Piri Thomas
From: Seven Long Times Citation: Social Justice Vol. 18, No. 3 (1991): 255-263
Jim Thomas and Sharon Boehlefeld
Rethinking Abolitionism: “What Do We Do with Henry?” Review of de Haan, The Politics of Redress In their review of Willem de Haan’s book, the authors assess the sad state of affairs concerning the penal question and discuss the merits and prospects for penal abolition. Whatever its flaws, the authors argue, abolitionism has value in […]
Martin B. Miller
A Heartless Anatomy of Five Prison Riots The reviewer argues that authors Bert Useem and Peter Kimbal seriously search for the causes of prison riots, but etiology is a trap that has seduced many a scholar. The climate of fear, hatred, and destruction that pervades prison life is publicly exposed when riots occur; the fault […]
Tony Ward
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, […]
Dragan Milovanovic and Stuart Henry
Constitutive Penology The authors argue that critical attention should be paid to the ways in which discourses and ideologies of penology reproduce “free world” forms of domination. Critical criminologists need to go farther to reveal how even oppositional discourse may be constitutive of existing reality. Victims may contribute to their own domination-even when they think […]