Special Issue of the JAH

A recent special issue of the American Journal of History was dedicated to 20th Century American Criminal Justice (thanks to Alex Tepperman for pointing this out). The TOC is below:

The Journal of American History  (June 2015) 

Articles 

Introduction: Constructing the Carceral State 

Kelly Lytle Hernández, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, and Heather Ann Thompson 18 

African American Women, Mass Incarceration, and the Politics of Protection 

Kali Nicole Gross 25 

Less Crime, More Punishment: Violence, Race, and Criminal Justice in Early Twentieth-Century America 

Jeffrey S. Adler 34 

Youth of Color and California’s Carceral State: The Fred C. Nelles Youth Correctional Facility 

Miroslava Chávez-García 47 

Queer Law and Order: Sex, Criminality, and Policing in the Late Twentieth-Century United States 

Timothy Stewart-Winter 61 

We Are Not Slaves: Rethinking the Rise of Carceral States through the Lens of the Prisoners’ Rights Movement 

Robert T. Chase 73 

Guns and Butter: The Welfare State, the Carceral State, and the Politics of Exclusion in the Postwar United States 

Julilly Kohler-Hausmann 87 

“A War within Our Own Boundaries”: Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and the Rise of the Carceral State 

Elizabeth Hinton 100 

Flocatex and the Fiscal Limits of Mass Incarceration: Toward a New Political Economy of the Postwar Carceral State 

Alex Lichtenstein 113 

Impossible Criminals: The Suburban Imperatives of America’s War on Drugs 

Matthew D. Lassiter 126 

Deportability and the Carceral State 

Torrie Hester 141 

Objects of Police History 

Micol Seigel 152 

Crack in Los Angeles: Crisis, Militarization, and Black Response to the Late Twentieth-Century War on Drugs 

Donna Murch 162 

The Unintended Consequences of the Carceral State: Chicana/o Political Mobilization in Post–World War II America 

Edward J. Escobar 174 

Two New Issues -- Punishment & Society + Theoretical Criminology

This month, we have new issues of both Punishment & Society and Theoretical Criminology. P&S offered a special issue on punishment, values, and local cultures. Their tables of contents (TOCs) are below.

The TOC for the new, special issue of Punishment & Society:

Editorial Special issue: Punishment, values and local cultures Hilde Tubex and David A Green

Articles US penal-reform catalysts, drivers, and prospects David A Green US punitiveness ‘Canadian style’? Cultural values and Canadian punishment policy Cheryl Marie Webster and Anthony N Doob Inspector Wallander’s angst, social change and the reconfiguration of Swedish exceptionalism John Pratt and Thomas McLean Penal diversity within Australia Hilde Tubex, David Brown, Arie Freiberg, Karen Gelb, and Rick Sarre Cultural peers and penal policies: A configurational approach toward mapping penal landscapes Susanne Karstedt Punishment, legitimate policies and values: Penal moderation, dignity and human rights Sonja Snacken

The TOC for the newest issue of Theoretical Criminology:

Debating Theoretical Criminology The slow violence of state organized race crime Geoff Ward

Articles The long struggle: An agonistic perspective on penal development Philip Goodman, Joshua Page, and Michelle Phelps Bad jobs and good workers: The hiring of ex-prisoners in a segmented economy Kristin Bumiller Between vigilantism and bureaucracy: Improving our understanding of police work in Nigeria and South Africa Sarah Jane Cooper-Knock and Olly Owen “Obviously, we’re all oil industry”: The criminogenic structure of the offshore oil industry Elizabeth A Bradshaw Ontology, epistemology, and irony: Richard Rorty and re-imagining pragmatic criminology Johannes Wheeldon Towards a Bourdieusian frame of moral panic analysis: The history of a moral panic inside the field of humanitarian aid Arnaud Dandoy

Book reviews Book review: Jonathan Simon, Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America Marion Vannier Book review: Sara Wakefield and Christopher Wildeman, Children of the Prison Boom: Mass Incarceration and the Future of American Inequality Bryan L Sykes Book review: Lisa Guenther, Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives Sara-Maria Sorentino Book review: Eoin O’Sullivan and Ian O’Donnell (eds), Coercive Confinement in Ireland: Patients, Prisoners and Penitents Mary Corcoran Book review: Vicky Conway, Policing Twentieth Century Ireland: A History of An Garda Síochána Aogán Mulcahy Book review: Michael J Coyle, Talking Criminal Justice: Language and the Just Society Gabrielle Watson

LSA Meeting: New Submission Process / Oct. 15th Deadline

Reposted from LSA Mailing:

We are very excited to present the 2016 LSA Annual Meeting, June 2-5 in New Orleans!

The meeting will take place at the New Orleans Marriott, which features more meeting rooms and more guest rooms to fully accommodate this growing conference.  We have posted some early information about the meeting, including the theme and the submission schedule at www.lawandsociety.org/NewOrleans2016/neworleans2016.html.

New this year! Submit a 1000 word summary instead of a short abstract. 

We wanted to alert you to a change to the paper proposal process that the Program Committee is implementing. For reasons explained in the link below, we will require those proposing papers, either submitted under the rubric of a Collaborative Research Network (CRN) or other organized session, or as a stand-alone submission, to provide a 1,000 word summary of their proposed paper rather than the often minimal abstract that has been asked for in the past. Those proposing to organize a roundtable will be asked to provide a 500 word summary of the topic and the contributions they expect the proposed participants to make. Get more information at www.lawandsociety.org/NewOrleans2016/2016-New-in-NewOrleans.html.