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Introduces a special journal issue. This issue of Social Justice revolves largely around prominent influences on public education, including corporatization, militarism, and communities mobilizing in defense of their own interests.

In Memoriam of Andre Gunder Frank, focusing on a personal look at Gunder and his impact on friends and colleagues. D. Miller

Examines "US militarism and populist nationalism, the criminalization and repression of domestic dissent, and the movements that have challenged the power arrangements that sustain American structures of inequality"; 11 articles. Contents: Patriot Acts, by Tony Platt, Cecilia O'Leary; Class, crime, and film noir: labor, the fugitive outsider, and the anti-authoritarian tradition, by Dennis Broe; The civil rights movement and the continuing struggle for the redemption of America, by Rod Bush; Comparing the African American and Oromo movements in the global context, by Asafa Jalata; The cultural roots of interventionism in the U.S., by Steve Martinot; The diversity rationale in higher education: an overview of the contemporary legal context, by Adalberto Aguirre, Jr., and Rubén Martinez; Political consciousness and new social movement theory: the case of Fuerza Unida, by Kara Zugman; Nomadic justice? restorative justice on the margins of law, by Andrew Woolford, R.S. Ratner; Patterns of exclusion: sanitizing space, criminalizing homelessness, by Randall Amster; Community-building and reintegrative approaches to community policing: the case of drug control, by Barry Goetz, Roger Mitchell; A new edition of "Punishment and Social Structure" thirty-five years later: a timely event, by Dario Melossi.

Examines environmental crimes committed by entities such as the World Bank, the US military, the chemical industry, and other toxic waste disposers; some focus on social justice for the disempowered, including the use of racial politics to justify restricting rights; US; 12 articles, and a book review. Contents: The World Bank and crimes of globalization, by David O. Friedrichs, Jessica Friedrichs; Resisting toxic militarism: Vieques versus the U.S. Navy, by Déborah Berman Santana; "Attac": a global social movement? by Vincenzo Ruggiero; Environmental crime and pollution: wasteful reflections, by Alan Block; Environmental harm and the political economy of consumption, by Rob White; Sustainability--long view or long word? by Mario Petrucci; Review of Pearce and Tombs, "Toxic capitalism: corporate crime and the chemical industry, by Vincenzo Ruggiero; Expansion of police power in public schools and the vanishing rights of students, by Randall R. Beger; Prisoners of war: Black female incarceration at the end of the 1980s, by Garry Rolison et al.; Crime and justice in American Indian communities, by Lisa M. Poupart; For their own good: benevolent rhetoric and exclusionary language in public officials' discourse on immigrant-related issues, by Cecilia Menjívar, Sang Kil; A report from the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance, Durban, South Africa, 2001, by Rita Maran.

In response to the terrorist attacks of 11 Sept 2001, the Bush administration was forced to address issues of multilateralism, diplomatic engagement, & military confrontation. The Bush team was also forced to address foreign policy issues concerning Afghanistan, Kashmir, Pakistan, Iraq, & Central Asia. Domestically, the Bush team increased US homeland security measures, measures that have affected the Immigration & Naturalization Service, the CIA, the FBI, & others. These actions have drawn attention away from other important domestic issues such as prison reform. The US reaction to 11 Sep 2001 raises a number of questions: How can justice & civil liberty be upheld? How can multinational cooperation be encouraged? Can the US maintain strong ties with its existing allies in the face of the "War on Terrorism?" Finally, it is obvious that until the West becomes less dependent on oil, illegal drugs, diamonds, & other goods, the US initiative against terrorism will remain ineffective. 119 References. K. Larsen