Social Justice back issues from March 2001:
Welfare and Punishment in the Bush Era.(President George W. Bush)
Mar 22, 2001 ... Editors UNDER THE NEW BUSH PRESIDENCY WE CAN EXPECT A CONTINUATION OF WELFARE and criminal policies developed during the Clinton years. The Democratic and Republican platforms on these issues were interchangeable. With Clinton in the White House, the Democrats seized the low ...
Ian Taylor Remembered.
Mar 22, 2001; ... IAN TAYLOR WAS A KEY FIGURE IN THE POLITICALLY COMMITTED SOCIOLOGY THAT emerged in the 1960s. Radicalized, like so many intellectuals of his generation by the political flux of the time, he worked prolifically in the fields of criminology, politics, urban studies, sport, and popular ...
Faith in Government?
Mar 22, 2001; ... RECALLING A VOLUNTARISM REMINISCENT OF HERSERT HOOVER, THE FIRST President Bush challenged Americans to shine "a thousand points of light" on the nation's social problems. Bush's "thousand points of light" marked a divide between public and private, church and state, for they substituted ...
But No Faith in the People.(faith-based social service)
Mar 22, 2001; ... GEORGE W. BUSH'S TROUBLED -- AND DEEPLY TROUBLING -- PLANS FOR THE White House Office of Faith Based Action show why religion has so often been the engine of exclusion and division, the justification for subordination and supremacy. All this doesn't trouble Bush, who claims only and simply ...
Neither Alms Nor a Friend: The Tragedy of Compassionate Conservatism.
Mar 22, 2001; ... MARVIN OLASKY HOLDS A MORAL COPYRIGHT ON THE TERM "COMPASSIONATE Conservatism," and franchised President George W. Bush to market it. Olasky has produced a stream of books and articles on the subject; the latest is called, simply, Compassionate Conservatism (2000). The book has a foreword ...
Charitable Choice As Neoliberal Social Welfare Strategy.
Mar 22, 2001; ... True compassion means suffering with the poor and acting on the consciousness of your suffering -- and we should shift power away from the bureaucracy to the people in the compassionate community, who actually deal with these problems. -- Jeb Bush (in Olasky, 2000: 13). ...
Welfare Reform: An Exploration of Devolution.
Mar 22, 2001; ... Introduction IN THE EARLY 1990s DEVOLUTION OF POWER TO ADMINISTER SOCIAL PROGRAMS AND services in the United States occurred from the federal to state and local governmental units. Devolution -- defined in Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary as "the transference (as of ...
Devolution and Welfare: The Social and Legal Implications of State Inequalities for Welfare Reform in the United States.
Mar 22, 2001; ... OVER THE PAST FOUR DECADES, THE POLITICAL IDEOLOGY OF FEDERALISM HAS become increasingly popular in the United States (Cashin, 1999). Federalism promotes shifting responsibility for certain social policies and programs from the federal government to the states. According to proponents of ...
A Multicultural Chronology of Welfare Policy and Social Work In the United States.
Mar 22, 2001; ... Introduction THIS CHRONOLOGY IS DESIGNED TO INTRODUCE FUTURE SOCIAL WORKERS TO significant events, policies, people, and publications in the history of welfare policy and social work in the United States. It does not provide a linear, agreed-upon listing of "great men" and ...
Social Insecurity: The Transformation of American Criminal Justice, 1965--2000.
Mar 22, 2001; ... Just from a Christian standpoint, you can't see one of these and not consider that maybe it's not right. --Jim Willet, warden of Huntsville prison in Texas, after supervising 40 executions in one year (Rimer, 2000a) We're Number One! FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ...
Policing Space, Policing Race: Social Control Imperatives and Police Discretionary Decisions.
Mar 22, 2001; ... THE TENUOUS AND OFTEN CONTENTIOUS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RACIAL MINORIties and the police is a perennial concern of scholars, policymakers, and the public. Despite the centrality of race in the historical development of the police, as well as in contemporary criminal justice policies and ...
Introducing the New School of Convict Criminology.
Mar 22, 2001; ... That's the reality, and to hell with what the class-room bred, degree toting, grant-hustling "experts" say from their well-funded, air-conditioned offices far removed from the grubby realities of the prisoner's lives (Rideau and Wikberg, 1992: 59). Introduction THE ...
A Texas Prisoner's Reaction to Faith-Based Rehabilitation Programs.
Mar 22, 2001; ... Introduction by Robert P. Weiss WHEN I BEGAN RESEARCH FOR MY SOCIAL JUSTICE ESSAY ON GEORGE W. Bush's "charitable choice" welfare policy and John J. Dilulio's faith-based social service programs, I immediately wrote a friend for whom I have a high regard: Michael E. Schneider. I ...
Telling the Story: A Study in the Segregation of Women Prisoners.
Mar 22, 2001; ... [My] cell was as long as me, as tall as me, as fat as me. There's a light on you all the time, you know, like one of these bright lights all the time. And you just got a mattress on the floor and a toilet. There's no sink to wash your hands. And it's infested with bugs; you sleep with them ...
The Ottawa Special Services Project: A Case Study in Destabilization.
Mar 22, 2001; ... I think they killed it largely because of a philosophical bent among benchers who still view the defense of criminals who can't afford to pay a lawyer as a quasi-charity. A vast majority of them have never done a criminal case and never will. - An Ottawa defense attorney (in ...
Mercy and Punishment: Buddhism and the Death Penalty.
Mar 22, 2001; ... THE DEATH PENALTY EXISTS AS THE MOST SEVERE FORM OF PUNISHMENT AVAILABLE worldwide. Over one-half of all nation-states have abolished the death penalty either by law or by not conducting executions. The United States is one country that actively uses capital punishment. The Death Penalty ...
Review of Jonas, Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala's Peace Process.(Review)
Mar 22, 2001; ... Susanne Jonas, Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala's Peace Process. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000. THIS BOOK IS A SOUND, ACCURATE, AND IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF THE GUATEMALAN peace process, which ended the 36-year-old internal armed conflict and began the reconstruction of the ...