A Spectre Is Haunting Law and Society: Revisiting Radical Criminology at UC Berkeley David Stein, an anti-prison activist, provides a detailed account of the syllabus (including readings and bibliography) of a seminar on Radical Criminology at UC Berkeley, which was attended by Berkeley law students and graduate students in Justice Studies at San Jose State […]
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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 […]
De Giorgi_Review of Melossi
Review of Dario Melossi, Crime, Punishment and Migration by Alessandro De Giorgi
Deaths in Custody and Detention, Vol. 33: 4, 2006
Jude McCulloch and Phil Scraton, eds. This is a special issue on the investigation of, and inquiry into, deaths in custody and detention (including state hospitals and mental health, police and prison custody, and young offenders’ institutions). The volume sets out to consider how advanced democratic states inquire into and investigate deaths in controversial circumstances. […]
Defending Rights and Just Futures in the Real World Order, Vol. 25: 2, 1998
Gregory Shank (coord.) This issue demonstrates the interplay between world-systems theory, radical criminology, and human and civil rights struggles. Contributions emphasize theoretical concerns and implications for praxis and policy. Overarching themes concern the need to formulate imaginative global and local alternatives that take into account the shifting sands of historical advances in civil and political […]
Devereaux Kennedy
Out of Time: The Curtis-Wells Anomaly and the History of American Corrections Devereaux Kennedy attempts to evaluate the significance of the reform school regimes of E.M.P. Wells and Joseph Curtis. Kennedy examines the utilitarian correctional theory and practice dominant in the U.S. during the 1820s and 1830s and the Progressive approach to corrections that held […]
Devra Anne Weber
“Different Plans”: Indigenous Pasts, the Partido Liberal Mexicano, and Questions about Reframing Binational Social Movements of the 20th Century Inspired by evidence found while researching the grassroots base of the binational Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM) of the early twentieth century, Weber argues that indigenous organizing in binational and other social movements is more a continuity […]
Diane F. Reed and Edward L. Reed
Children of Incarcerated Parents Diane and Edward Reed alert us to the plight of the five million children who are victimized by the criminalization of their parents. Often they lose one or both of their parents, their homes, and all that anchors them; many respond with sadness, withdrawal, depression, diminished school performance, alcohol and drug […]
Disdained Mothers & Despised Others: The Politics & Impact of Welfare Reform, Vol. 25:1, 1998
The articles in this special issue provide a general critical analysis of the political, social, and labor market effects of “welfare reform.” In particular, a useful essay on the impact of welfare policies on Asian immigrants fills a big void; another addresses the high incidence of domestic violence in the lives of welfare recipients; and […]
Don Reneau
Z and Me Adults fear for the safety of children is a central theme of Don Reneau’s “Z and Me,” an excursion into the author’s relationship with his two-year-old son. Bewitched by a society in which children’s perceptions and abilities (especially those under five, six, or seven) are vastly underrated, we adults have become accustomed […]
Donald Zaremba
Escape poem poetry Citation: Social Justice Vol. 18, No. 3 (1991): 265-265
Dorie Klein and June Kress
Any Woman’s Blues: A Critical Overview of Women, Crime, and the Criminal Justice System In this essay, originally published in 1976, Dorie Klein and June Kress summarize contemporary research on women’s crime and patriarchal justice. women, crime rates, women’s liberation Citation: Social Justice Vol. 40, Nos. 1-2 (2013): 162-191
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 […]
Editors
Elizabeth “Betita” Sutherland Martínez: A Chronology Betita’s life and accomplishments by decade. Elizabeth “Betita” Sutherland Martínez Citation: Social Justice Vol. 39, No. 2-3 (2012): 3-11
Editors
In Memoriam (Suzie Dod Thomas, 1947–2013) Suzie Dod Thomas’s life is celebrated. Suzie Dod Thomas remembrance Citation: Social Justice Vol. 39, No. 2-3 (2012): 149-150
Edward J. McCaughan
Art, Identity, and Mexico’s Gay Movement The author examines how visual artworks produced in the context of Mexico’s LGBT movements helped to shape new discourses and imagine new subjects constituted around the intersections of gender, sexuality, and national identity. McCaughan’s analysis is based on a digital archive of some 600 works of art; for the […]