Race, security, and social movements

In: Social justice: a journal of crime, conflict and world order, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 1-263

Abstract

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.