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The Kerner Report’s 50th Anniversary: An Occasion to Rewrite History
by Tony Platt* Anniversaries provide many opportunities for revisionist and wishful thinking about the past. The 50th anniversary of the Kerner Report is no exception. The new mythology remakes the...
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“Millions and Millions of Lulas”: A Post from Brazil
by Clifford Welch* Image by Paulo Pinto/FotosPublicas (source). Thirty-eight years ago, in April, 1980 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva went to jail for the first time. On April 7, 2018, the former president...
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Brazil, an Urgent Situation
by Clifford Welch* Image: Demonstration against presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro in Porto Alegre, Brazil. September 29, 2018. By Caco Argemi CPERS / Sindicato. Source: Flickr. CC BY-SA 2.0....
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Like We Weren’t Worth Saving
How the Camp Fire Was a Social Disaster by Michael J. Coyle* The Camp Fire, which crushed the lives and livelihoods of the 30,000 residents of the town of Paradise, California, was not just a natural...
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Passive Revolution and the Movement against Mass Incarceration: From Prison...
by William I. Robinson & Oscar Fabian Soto* At a recent conference that brought together academics and activists from the movement against mass incarceration, one of the authors of this commentary,...
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Pushback on Human Rights in France: The Republic on the Move, but in Reverse...
by Rémy HERRERA* Image by Funkographer, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/aramisphotos/. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 For some months now, France has been the scene of a turbulent upheaval. Fierce social conflict...
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From Islamophobia to Oikophobia in the Netherlands
by Maartje van der Woude* The stakes in the May 2019 elections for the European parliament are unusually high. The results will indicate whether or not nationalist, anti-immigrant, and Euro-skeptic...
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Police Abolition or Police Surveillance: The Looming Choice
by Micol Seigel* Image created by Hugh D’Andrade. CC BY 3.0. Speaker after speaker at the Republican National Convention last month railed against democrats’ supposed plans to defund the police. The...
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Making Violence Visible: Mapping Violence against Guarani and Kaiowá Women in...
by Camilla Rossi* In November 2020 the Guarani and Kaiowá Women’s Council, Kuñangue Aty Guasu, shared the first comprehensive report documenting the initial outcomes of their Violence Mapping...
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On the Outs: Global Capitalism and Transcarceration
by Oscar Fabian Soto This blog piece is extracted from a longer article, “On the Outs: Global Capitalism and Transcarceration”, published in Vol. 48-1 of Social Justice. Image by ckp, via DeviantArt....
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Where is Police Abolition in Criminal Justice Studies?
by Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land and Kevin Walby* Image by DANIEL ARAUZ via FLICKR. CC BY 2.0. Criminology and criminal justice studies have too often failed to incorporate lessons from the front lines of...
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A Future in the Balance: The Fight Against the Carceral State in Central...
by Judah Schept* Image: Wallens Ridge State Prison, Big Stone Gap, VA, from itsgoingdown.org. Three years ago this month, in June 2019, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) withdrew its Record of Decision to...
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Mike Davis and Betita Martinez: A Revolutionary Encounter
Image: Mike David, illustration by Carolyn Ramos for Voice of San Diego; Betita Martinez, art by Favianna Rodríguez. In loving memory of two dear friends of the journal—Mike Davis, who joined our...
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