Anatomy of a Done Deal: The Fight over the Iran Nuclear Accord This article exploresthe political forces mostinvolvedin the contest over the Obama administration’s landmark signing, on July 14, 2015, of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, along with the permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany. The accord codifies in international law […]
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Gregory Shank
Editorial Overview: Issues in Critical Criminology Issue overview. Citation: Social Justice Vol. 22, No. 1 (1995): 1-4
Gregory Shank
Editorial Overview: Racial and Political Justice Issue overview. Citation: Social Justice Vol. 22, No. 3 (1995): 1-8
Hanink_Review of Murakawa
Review of Naomi Murakawa, The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America Peter A. Hanink
Harald Bauder
Possibilities of Open Borders and No Border An overarching constraint for free human mobility is that international political borders are only selectively permeable. Drawing on Ernst Bloch’s work on the possible, the author examines open-borders and no-border arguments and explores the conditions of their possibilities. Although open-borders and no-border narratives serve as a powerful negation of contemporary conditions […]
Harold Pepinsky
Reply to Ackermann on The Geometry of Violence and Democracy Commentary on The Geometry of Violence and Democracy book review, criminology; social theory; individual and society Citation: Social Justice Vol. 22, No. 1 (1995): 145-146
Herman Schwendinger and Julia Schwendinger
Defenders of Order or Guardians of Human Rights? Originally published in 1970, this path-breaking essay challenged criminology’s dominant managerial paradigm and called for a break with positivist, technocratic definitions of “crime.” definition of crime, human rights Citation: Social Justice Vol. 40, Nos. 1-2 (2013): 87-117
Human Rights, Gender Politics, and Postmodern Discourses, Vol. 26: 1, 1999
Gregory Shank (coord.) Three themes stand out in this issue of Social Justice. The first is human rights violations as they apply within the U.S., in NATO’s war in Kosovo, in Tibet, and vis-à-vis girl children and young women worldwide. The second centers on the contest over gender issues in social policy: the Christian Right’s […]
Ilaria Salvadori
A Dragon in the Neighborhood: City Planning with Children in Milan, Italy Ilaria Salvadori describes an Italian project that was part of an international UNICEF-sponsored research program to engage children in planning activities to improve their environments. The author records and analyzes how children in one district in Milan became involved in traffic-flow design when […]
Immigration Rights and National Insecurity, Vol. 33: 1, 2006
Gregory Shank, ed. This issue features essays on the future implications of the great immigration battle of 2006, the deportation phenomenon in Europe and the Caribbean, pro-immigrant social movements, and the relationship of the war on drugs to the control of immigrant communities. Other contributions address current debates on the militarization of the public sphere, […]
Immigration: A Civil Rights Issue for the Americas in the 21st Century, Vol. 23: 3, 1996
Susanne Jonas and Suzie Dod Thomas Public policy on immigration will be central to determining the form and character of US society in the 21st century. The political Right has so far seized the initiative in defining the parameters of that discussion, in effect limiting national debate to choosing between degrees of restrictionism. Immigration: A […]
Immigration: A Civil Rights Issue for the Americas in the 21st Century, Vol. 23: 3, 1996
Edited by Susanne Jonas and Suzie Dod Thomas Public policy on immigration will be central to determining the form and character of US society in the 21st century. The political Right has so far seized the initiative in defining the parameters of that discussion, in effect limiting national debate to choosing between degrees of restrictionism. […]
Imperial Obama: A Kinder, Gentler Empire? , Vol. 37:2-3, 2010
Robert P. Weiss and Gregory Shank, eds. Contributors to this issue of Social Justice offer a searing indictment of how continuity has triumphed over change in any assessment of the Obama administration vis-à-vis the Bush-Cheney era in terms of national security issues. Articles on torture, counterinsurgency tactics, and “just war” theory demonstrate that neoliberalism and […]
In the Aftermath of Welfare ‘Reform’, Vol. 28: 4, 2001
Sylvie C. Tourigny and Delores Jones-Brown, eds. This issue evaluates the fallout of efforts to reform welfare in the United States through the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. It documents the ideological shifts in Republican circles that shaped the debate, and which are finding echoes in conservative politics in Australia and […]
Issues in Critical Criminology, Vol. 22: 1, 1995
Gregory Shank (coord.) This issue addresses the use and abuse of animals in criminology, critical criminology and the reconstruction of utopias, class and criminality, organizational crime, domestic violence, and the history of American corrections. Purchase articles (click on the author link to read the abstract and buy the pdf): Gregory Shank, Editorial Overview: Issues in […]
J. Gregg Robinson
Political Cynicism and the Foreclosure Crisis Growth in American political cynicism concerns both scholars and political commentators. This increased distrust in political institutions, many argue, has negatively affected our democracy in general and political participation in particular. Yet, the relationship between cynicism and political activism is more complex than many have claimed. The author examines […]